Tag: North Iraq
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
Kurdish Authorities Allow Anti-Christian Shoes to Be Sold in North Iraq
AINA - 01/01/2020 (AINA) -- According to an article published on a Polish-language website, shop windows in a region dominated by Kurds in northern Iraq ... Read More
Assyrian Umbrella Organization Asks UN to Support Assyrians in North Iraq
cdn.pixabay.com AINA - 22/9/17 (AINA) -- The Assyrian Universal Alliance, an umbrella organization for Assyrians worldwide, has sent a letter to the Secretary General of ... Read More
Dutch Parliament Members Express Concern About Kurds Marginalizing Assyrians
MPs Raymond de Roon (L) and Han ten Broeke have spoken in the Dutch Parliament about Kurds marginalizing Assyrians in North Iraq. ( AINA) AINA ... Read More
3 Year-old Assyrian Girl Kidnapped By ISIS Reunited With Her Mother
Christina Khader Ebada, the Assyrian girl kidnapped by ISIS three years ago, reunited with her mother. ( AINA) Christina, then and now. ( AINA) Christina ... Read More
PKK Members Continue to Occupy Assyrian Villages in North Iraq
4/12/15 North Iraq (AINA) -- Members of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militia continue to occupy three Assyrian villages in the Nahla Valley of north ... Read More
Kurdish PKK Forces Occupy 8 Assyrian Villages in North Iraq
24/11/15 (AINA) -- Members of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militia entered and occupied eight Assyrian villages in north Iraq yesterday. The villages are Hezani, ... Read More
US Government Must Designate ISIS Attacks As Genocide for All Groups
Christina Khader Ebada, a 3 year-old Assyrian girl, was abducted from her family last August by ISIS as they were leaving Baghdede. 14/11/15 (AINA) -- ... Read More
ISIS Burns 80 year old Assyrian Woman in North Iraq
27/5/15 (AINA) -- According to a report by the BasNews agency, ISIS burned an 80 year-old Assyrian woman to death in a village southeast of ... Read More
Assyrians Demonstrate in Istanbul
16/3/15 (AINA) -- Assyrian held a demonstration yesterday in Istanbul's Freedom Square to protest ISIS attacks on Assyrians in Khabur, Syria. Despite the heavy rain, ... Read More
European Parliament Passes Resolution Calling for Assyrian Safe Haven in North Iraq
An Assyrian house in Telsqof, Iraq destroyed by ISIS. 13/3/15 (AINA) -- The European Parliament has passed a non-bindingresolution calling for the establishment of an ... Read More
ISIS Threatens to Blow Up the Historical Walls of Nineveh
The remains of the walls of Nineveh in north Iraq. Janauray 2015 (AINA) -- According to the Assyrian website www.ankawa.com, ISIS is planning to destroy ... Read More
Sweden to Help Displaced Iraqis Face Winter
18/12/2014 Stockholm (AINA) -- The Swedish government decided on Tuesday to allocate 40 million SEK (5.2 million USD) for humanitarian aid to displaced persons in ... Read More
Assyrian Refugees Face Winter in North Iraq
Assyrian Church of the East Relief Organization - November 2014 With little sign of improvement in the conditions facing Assyrian Christians in their ancestral homeland of ... Read More
Iraqi Christian Refugees in North Iraq – ‘Their Tears Have Run Dry’
Pic - www.missioalliance.org Aid to the Church in Need - October 2014 Father Andrzej Halemba heads the Middle East Section of international Catholic charity Aid to ... Read More
No Communion in North Iraq for First Time in 2000 Years
North Iraq Countryside - www.gopixpic.com http://www.catholic.org - 1/10/14 LOS ANGELES -- The ancient region of Nineveh in Iraq, one of the world's first Christian enclaves, has ... Read More
5K Walk Calls Attention to Assyrian Suffering in Iraq
September 2014 Skokie, Illinois (AINA) -- over 1,000 Assyrians participated in a 5 kilometer walk to call attention to the suffering of Assyrians in north ... 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
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
September 6 Report on North Iraq – Forced Marriages, Conversions and Looting
September 2014 Assyrian refugees in Ankawa, Iraq.(AINA) -- The Hammurabi Human Rights Organization* has issued its latest report, dated September 6, 2014, on the situation ... Read More
Australian Parliament Calls for Protection of Assyrians in Iraq
Chris Bowen 3/9/14 Canberra (AINA) -- The Australian Federal Parliament discussed the plight of the Assyrians of Iraq on Monday after a motion was raised ... Read More