Tag: AINA
ISIS Using Christian Homes in Mosul As Factories for Explosive Devices
17/9/14 (AINA) -- A number of Mosul residents have said that ISIS has turned Christians homes into factories for improvised explosive devices (IEDs) and car ... Read More
Some Assyrians Who Fled Their Town Say They Wish to Leave Iraq
Assyrian residents from the town of Telsqof, now living as refugees in Ankawa, Iraq, interviewed by World Council of Churches. A house in Telsqof destroyed ... Read More
Assyrian School Opens in Sweden
3/9/14 Sodertalje (AINA) -- Sweden's first Assyrian school opened its doors for the new school year in the town of Sodertalje, 36 kilometers south of ... Read More
ISIS Forced Elderly Assyrian Couple to March Out of Baghdede
Baghdede by ISIS and now sleeping on the top of floor of a mall in Arbel By Leah Sorith - 30/8/14 (AINA) -- 75 year-old Najib ... Read More
Mother of 3 Year-old Assyrian Girl Kidnapped By ISIS: ‘She Will Die If She Does Not See Me’
The mother of Christina, the 3 year-old Assyrian girl kidnapped by ISIS, shortly after arriving in Ankawa from Baghdede. Christina Khader Ebada, a 3 ... Read More
ISIS Abduct 3 Year-old Assyrian Girl From Fleeing Family : 3 Starve to Death
Christina Khader Christian Ebada, a 3 year-old Assyrian girl, was abducted from her family by ISIS as they were leaving Baghdede George David and his ... Read More
A Wedding in the Midst of the Assyrian Tragedy in Iraq
21/8/14 (AINA) -- The Islamic State (ISIS) has driven 200,000 Assyrians from their homes and villages in north Iraq. They are sleeping in open fields ... Read More
Assyrian Minister in Kurdish Government Resigns in Protest
17/8/14 (AINA) -- The Minister of Transportation for the Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) in North Iraq, Johnson Siawesh, has tendered his resignation to protest the ... Read More
Assyrian Refugees From Nineveh Plain in Desperate Need
10/8/14 (AINA) -- The massive exodus of nearly 200,000 Assyrians from the Nineveh plain (AINA 2014-08-07), caused by the Islamic State's (ISIS) capture of several ... Read More
200,000 Assyrians Have Fled the Nineveh Plain in the Last 24 Hours
Assyrian refugees sleeping on the streets of Ankawa, Iraq (photo: ankawa.com). (AINA) -- The push of the Islamic State (IS) from Mosul north into ... Read More
Assyrians Commemorate Martyrs Day As History Repeats Itself
8/7/14 (AINA) -- Between August 7 and 11, 1933, the Iraqi Army and Kurdish and Arab irregulars conducted a massacre of 3,000 Assyrian men, women ... Read More
Assyrians Demonstrate Worldwide Against ISIS Persecution
3/8/14 (AINA) -- Thousands of Assyrians held demonstration in major world cities today to support the Assyrians Christians of Mosul, who have been completely driven ... Read More
100 French MPs Demonstrate in Support of Assyrians in Mosul
24/7/14 Paris (AINA) -- One hundred members of the French Parliament demonstrated in front of the parliament building today in support of the Assyrians of ... Read More
ISIS Plundered Assyrians As They Fled Mosul; Families March 42 Miles
21/7/14 (AINA) -- More than 200 Assyrian families fled in panic from Mosul on July 17 and 18 as the ISIS deadline for converting to ... Read More
ISIS Removes Cross From Church in Mosul
15/7/14 Mosul (AINA) -- ISIS removed the cross on top of the dome of St. Ephrem Cathedral in the Shoorta neighborhood in Mosul, one week ... Read More
Water Shortage Crisis in Assyrian Towns in North Iraq
July 2014 (AINA) -- The water purification plants in Mosul supply water for the city and surrounding areas. After taking control of Mosul on June ... Read More
5 Assyrians, Including Two Nuns, Missing in Mosul
1/7/14 Mosul, Iraq (AINA) -- The Assyrian television channel Ishtar TV is reporting that 5 Assyrians have gone missing in Mosul. Two Chaldean nuns from ... Read More
50,000 Assyrians Flee Fighting in North Iraq
27/6/14 (AINA) -- Nearly all of the population of Qaraqosh, 50,000 Assyrians, has fled the city amid fighting between ISIS and Kurds. Syrian Catholic Archbishop ... Read More
Christians and Other Religious Minorities in Iraq Living in Sectarian Hell
By Nuri Kino - June 2014 (AINA) -- Approximately two thousand Assyrians and other Christian Iraqis are living illegally in Sweden since Immigration Minister Billstrom ... Read More
ISIS Expands Control, Begins Persecuting Christians in Mosul
13/6/14 (AINA) -- The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS, also known asDa'ash and ISIL) yesterday took control of Mosul, Iraq's second largest city. Various ... Read More
Newly Elected Assyrian Patriarch Wants to Commemorate Genocide Centennial
8/6/14 Damascus (AINA) -- The synod of the Assyrian Orthodox Church made a surprising decision on May 30th to form a committee to prepare for ... Read More