Tag: ISIS
Iraq’s Dwindling Christians Wonder If It’s Time To Leave Iraq
By Leila Fadel National Public Radio - 19/6/14 About 20 miles outside the embattled northern Iraqi city of Mosul lies the Christian village of Al-Qoush. It's ... Read More
ISIS Cuts Off Water, Electricity, Destroys Churches
19/6/14 (AINA) -- Sources in Tikrit and Mosul have told AINA that ISIS has cut off water and electricity to some parts of the cities. ... Read More
Jihadists attack Armenian church in Iraq’s Mosul
13/6/14 PanARMENIAN.Net - The jihadist group Islamic State of Iraq and Levant, which has been systematically attacking—and invading—key cities in Iraq, attacked the St. Etchmiadzin Armenian ... Read More
Mosul now emptied of Christians, says Archbishop
13/6/14 (Vatican Radio) Speaking to Catholic charity Aid to the Church in Need, Chaldean Archbishop Amel Nona, said he thought Mosul's last remaining Christians had ... 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
ISIS Destroys 3000 Year-old Assyrian Artifacts in Syria
May 2014 (AINA) -- According to a report from the website www.apsa2011.com, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, also known as ISIS) ... Read More
ISIS seizes Armenian church in Raqqa
7/12/13 BEIRUT: An Armenian church in the city of Raqqa has been taken over by militants from the Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria, according to activists. The Al-Qaeda affiliate ... Read More
Al-Qa’ida Desecrates Church in Syria
30/10/13 Tel Abyaḍ, Syria (AINA) -- Recently in the town of Tel Abyaḍ, where there is a small Christian community, the Islamic State of Iraq ... Read More
Christians under threat in Syria as Islamist extremists gain influence
Loveday Morris - 5/10/13 When radical Islamists tore down a cross and hoisted a black flag above a church in the northern Syrian city of ... Read More
Battles rage in Syria Christian town: security source
15/9/13 DAMASCUS: Syria's army battled rebels for control of the ancient Christian town of Maaloula near Damascus on Saturday, a security official told AFP, a ... Read More