Tag: Nineveh Plain
WCA Partners with USAID In Reconstructing Community Center In Bartella, North Iraq
WCA NGO - 23/8/2020 As part of a shared commitment to help rebuild the threatened ethno-religious minorities in Iraq, in November 2019 the World Council ... Read More
Swedish EU Parliamentarian Accuses Kurds of Treason Against Assyrians
http://thekurdishproject.org AINA - 18/7/17 Stockholm (AINA) -- "It's obvious for me that when the Kurdish Regional Government disarmed Assyrians (AINA 2014-08-14) and then didn't defend the ... Read More
HUGE CROSS ERECTED NEAR MOSUL AFTER LIBERATION FROM ISIS
Photo: http://www.catholicnewsagency.com Pravoslavie.ru - 6/3/17 As a symbol of victory of light over darkness, of Christ over Satan, a giant cross has been erected on a ... Read More
Assyrians Signal Their Intention to Return to Their Homes in Mosul
Aid to the Church in Need - 5/11/16 The capture of the city in Northern Iraq by Daesh (IS) in June 2014, led to thousands fleeing ... Read More
Statement by the Syriac Orthodox Patriarchate of Anthioch & Syriac Catholic Patriarchate on the Eviction of People from Mosul & the Nineveh Plain
Syriac Orthodox Patriarchate - June 2016 Two Years Since the Eviction of our People from Mosul and the Nineveh Plain: the Wound of Forced Emigration Is Still ... Read More
Iraqi Minorities Advocate for the Creation of New Provinces
By Douglas Burton https://philosproject.org - May 2016 If August 1914 shattered the received order of Europe forever, August 2014 dissolved the received tradition of protection for ... Read More
Islamic State Blows Up 21 Christian Homes
Raymond Ibrahim - Coptic Solidarity - 25/9/15 Earlier this week, the Islamic State blew up 21 homes belonging to Christians in the once Christian majority Nineveh Plain, northeast ... Read More
7 Assyrian Villages in Northern Iraq Hit By Turkish Air Strikes
An Assyrian in Sharanish, north Iraq, which was hit by Turkish air strikes (photo: ARD). August 2015 (AINA) -- The German public TV channel ARD ... Read More
Brick By Brick, Person By Person, ISIS is Erasing Assyrians From Their Homelands
The ancient Assyrian city of Nimrud, which was destroyed by ISIS on March 5. 7/3/15 (AINA) -- Yesterday ISIS destroyed the ancient Assyrian city ... Read More
US Senate Calls for the Establishment of a Province for Christians in Nineveh Plain
Assyrians in Iraq. http://www.english.shafaaq.com - 29/1/15 17 members of the US Senate Foreign Minister, John Kerry called to support the Iraqi government's efforts to establish a ... Read More
The Minorities of the Nineveh Plain and the Demand for a Safe Haven
By Mikhael Benjamin - 19/9/14 (AINA) -- The province of Nineveh is going through tragic and exceptional conditions, particularly its minorities, national, ethnic, religious and ... Read More
Joint Assyrian Armenian Letter Sent to House Foreign Affairs Committee
Congressman Edward Royce 18/9/14 (AINA) -- The Assyrian Universal Alliance and the Armenian National Committee of America have sent a joint letter Congressman Edward Royce, ... Read More
75% of Assyrians Return to Their Town in North Iraq
17/9/14 Alqosh, Iraq (AINA) -- More than 75% of the residents of Alqosh, an Assyrian town 37 miles north of Mosul, have returned to their ... Read More
ISIS Erases Syriac Culture : Christian Teachings From Schools
By Gabriel Ruiz http://www.christiantoday.com.au - September 2014 In a move to further establish the Islamic caliphate, ISIS militants have imposed the mandatory removal of all Syriac ... 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
1200 Assyrian Refugees Living on One Floor in a Mall in Arbel
An Assyrian child in need of medical attention. 24/8/14 Arbel, Iraq (AINA) -- The city of Ankawa has received the largest number of refugees, 70,000, ... Read More
Dutch MP Visits Assyrian Refugees in North Iraq
24/8/14 Ankawa, Iraq (AINA) -- Dutch MP Joel Voordewind visited Ankawa on Thursday to assess the state of the Assyrian refugees who fled from ISIS. ... Read More
Lebanese MPs & FM Meet With Assyrian Leaders
Lebanese MPs Meet With Assyrian Leaders in Beirut - August 2014 Beirut (AINA) -- In a show of solidarity with the Assyrian Christians of North ... 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