Tag: Syria
Assyrian Delegation Meets With Australian Parliamentarians
(AINA) -- On 11 March 2015, leaders of Victoria's Assyrian community met with Australian state and federal parliamentarians building on ongoing Assyrian advocacy efforts in ... Read More
Release of 52 Assyrian Families Captured By ISIS Delayed
Assyrians in Los Angeles, U.S.A. demonstrate in support of Assyrians in Syria (photo: Assyrian Enterprise). 11/3/15 (AINA) -- According to the Vatican ambassador in ... Read More
Assyrians Hold Demonstrations As ISIS Continues Attacks on Assyrians
10/3/15 (AINA) -- ISIS launched a second series of attacks on Assyrian villages on the Khabur river in Hasaka, Syria. In Iraq ISIS destroyed a ... Read More
ISIS Crosses River in New Attacks on Assyrian Villages in Syria
8/3/15 Hasaka, Syria (AINA) -- ISIS crossed to the northern side of the Khabur river in the Hasaka province of Syria At 2 A.M. this ... 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
UN Condemns Destruction of Nimrud Heritage Site in Northern Iraq
The ancient Assyrian city of Nimrud, which was destroyed by ISIS on March 5. http://www.un.org - 7/3/15 "Nothing is safe from the cultural cleansing under way ... Read More
Unconfirmed Reports of the Release of All Assyrians Held By ISIS
Joseph and Sargon Sarkis -- two of the Assyrians captured by ISIS. 7/3/15 (AINA) -- Sources in Hasaka are reporting that ISIS has released all ... Read More
From Iraq to Syria: the Genocidal Ordeal of the Assyrians
Assyrians fleeing from Urmia, Iran in 1918 to escape the genocide by Turks. By Joseph Yacoub - 6/3/15 (AINA) -- The Assyrian-Chaldean community is facing ... Read More
Assyrians: From Mosul to Motor City
By Aaron Foley https://foreignpolicy.com - 6/3/15 DETROIT -- It's easy to miss Tigris Restaurant in Detroit's Chaldean Town, a tiny stretch of businesses and residences on ... Read More
Assyrian Hostage Released By ISIS: We Cannot Go Back to Our Homes
ISIS member addresses the Assyrian hostages from Tel Goran at an unknown location (photo: social media). ISIS Assyrian hostages from Tel Goran at an unknown ... Read More
Assyrians Appeal to International Community for Help Against ISIS
An Assyrian woman breaking in tears while leaving her hometown of Tel Temir after ISIS militants took over several villages in the countryside (photo: ARA ... Read More
ISIS Releases 4 More Assyrians, Including 6 Year-old Mariana
Mariana Mirza, 6, was released today, two days after her parents were released. (AINA photo). 4/3/15 Hasaka, Syria (AINA) -- Today ISIS released four more ... Read More
Assyrians Demonstrate in Cities Around the World
Russia France USA 4/3/15 (AINA) -- Assyrians held demonstrations in cities around the world yesterday and today to call attention to the plight ... Read More
Message From an Assyrian Fighter in Syria
3/3/15 (AINA) -- On February 24 ISIS attacked 35 Assyrian villages on the Khabur river in the Hasaka province in northeast Syria. More than 300 ... Read More
The Mysteries of Violence: Reflections on the Assyrian Crisis in Syria
Holy Apostolic Catholic Assyrian Church of the East - 2/3/15 The Very Rev’d Archdeacon William Toma Chicago - Illinois. Download PDF- The-Mystery-of-Voilence Source: Read More
UN Envoy in Solidarity Visit to Syria’s Assyrians
United Nations (UN) special envoy for Syria, Staffan de Mistura (R), stands next to priest Toma Asitivo Kaka during a visit to the Ibrahim-al Khalil ... Read More
19 Assyrians Released By ISIS But Hundreds Remain Captured
Assyrian hostages from Tel Goran who were captured and released by ISIS, at St. Mary's Church in Hasaka. Assyrian hostages from Tel Goran who were ... Read More
Assyrians Protest ISIS Attacks on Assyrians in Syria
St. Bishu Church in the Assyrian village of Tel Shamiran, Syria, now occupied by ISIS. Assyrians in Beirut protest ISIS attacks on Assyrian in Syria. ... Read More
The Use and Abuse of Syrian Christians
Ana Maria Luca https://now.mmedia.me - 28/2/15 On 12 February, after a Jabhat al-Nusra suicide attack on a bus carrying Shiite pilgrims in Damascus that killed six ... Read More
The Genocide of Assyrians That Started in Iraq Continues in Syria
By Peter Bet Basoo - 27/2/15 (AINA) -- On Tuesday, February 23 ISIS attacked 35 Assyrian villages on the Khabur river in the Hassaka province ... Read More
ISIS Now Controls 10 Assyrian Villages in Syria
27/2/15 BEIRUT (Reuters) -- Islamic State militants have abducted at least 220 people from Assyrian Christian villages in northeastern Syria during a three day offensive, ... Read More