IRAQ-UNREST-INDIA-DIPLOMACY

Indian relatives of workers missing in Iraq pose as they hold up photographs bearing their images in Khatuli village in Patiala on June 20, 2014. India's new government struggled make headway in its first foreign crisis as it tried to secure the release of 40 construction workers being held in war-torn Iraq, home to some 10,000 Indian expatriates. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has already dispatched a former ambassador to Baghdad to coordinate rescue efforts while the chief minister of Punjab province -- where most of the workers hail from -- has said he is willing to pay a ransom to gain their freedom. But while India's foreign ministry has described the men as having been "kidnapped", it says it does not know who has taken them hostage and that it has not received any ransom demand. (Photo credit should read STRDEL/AFP via Getty Images)