Iraq

Lord Carey said they were facing systematic ethnic cleansing which had worsened considerably since the fall of dictator Saddam Hussein.The mainly Christian community has faced relentless persecution for hundreds of years from the largely Muslim population living alongside them.Lord Carey today joined members of the Assyrian community in London at …

Lord Carey said they were facing systematic ethnic cleansing which had worsened considerably since the fall of Saddam Hussein. Assyrian churches have been the target of attacks, such as this one in Baghdad The mainly Christian community has faced relentless persecution for hundreds of years from the largely Muslim population …

The Syrian Catholic Archbishop of Mosul spoke of his deep reflection one day after he was released by kidnappers. With a heart of thankfulness, he acknowledged how the concern of the media and the Pope John Paul, as well as his prayer had saved him quickly from being harmed by …

So far, 4,000 people have registered in Chicago, second only to Detroit in the United States. About 5,500 people have registered in the Motor City. IRAQI VOTER REGISTRATIONIran: 41,088 Sweden: 22,957 United Kingdom: 20,245 United States: 17,103 Detroit: 5,551 Chicago: 4,000 Nashville: 3,228 Los Angeles: 2,813 Washington, D.C.: 1,511 Total: …

Both towns have been picked to house registration and polling sites for the Iraqi elections — and fast-paced preparations are under way. It’s part of the worldwide effort to give expatriate Iraqis a voice in the elections, and as many as 31,200 local residents with Iraqi ties are eligible to …

The list includes many of the main political Kurdish parties like Kurdistan Democratic Party, Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, Kurdistan Communist Party, Kurdistan Islamic Union, Toddlers Party of Kurdistan, Turkmen Parties as well as Chaldo-Assyrian Parties and some independent Kurdish, Arabic and Turkmen figures. The list is not exclusive to Kurds …

In San Diego alone, there are an estimated 25,000 expatriate Iraqis of Assyrian or Chaldean ancestry who could vote in the election. Iraq’s Chaldean-Assyrian community is one of the largest remaining Christian populations in the Middle East, and has been the target of intimidation, assassinations and bombings by Islamist terrorists …

The cities in question are: San Diego, CA; Modesto/Turlock; Phoenix, AZ; San Francisco Bay Area/San Jose, CA; Beirut, Lebanon; Fairfield, Australia; and Damascus, Syria. The Iraq OCV web site lists Damascus, Syria as a host country-city location. The petition calls for registration and voting centers in these cities, along with …

Informants who pointed out Latchin for American investigators say he was put in a program that spread sleeper agents for Saddam Hussein. He was told to become a U.S. citizen, to spend years hiding in Chicago until summoned to begin spying.In the meantime, he spent. Then he went bankrupt.He has …

Bet-Shmuel has lived in exile ever since. But on Monday, he went to a Skokie, Ill., community center to raise his voice once again, this time registering to vote in the Iraqi national elections at the end of this month. All day, hundreds of Iraqi expatriates and their children streamed …