Arguably ‘Kurdistan’ already enjoying de facto independence; and the powerful Kurdish statelet in Iraq provides, under Massoud Barzani’s rule, an example for other long-neglected minorities in the region of Northern Mesopotamia. Could the example of the increasingly independent Kurds in Iraq presage further rounds of ethnic discord and state fragmentation …
Read More »An Iraqi Family’s Last Christmas in Germany?
By Bryony Jones The Toma family, Christians from Iraq, have long enjoyed asylum from the violence in their homeland. Now, however, the German authorities are planning to send them back. Violence and danger await them back home. SPIEGEL ONLINE The Toma family from Iraq may soon …
Read More »Christians have no voice in new Iraq government
Local Chaldeans hope they can make difference with vote. PUBLISHED: December 13, 2005 By Chad SelweskiMacomb Daily Staff Writer Macomb County Chaldeans are concerned that this week’s Iraqi elections, including absentee ballots cast from the United States, could leave their Christian bloc with a minimal voice in Iraq’s new government. …
Read More »AUA – Declaration: Plea to Assyrian Voters
As we approach the date, December 15, 2005, of coming parliamentarian elections in Iraq, Iraqi voters, including our Assyrian people, will elect a new Iraqi National Assembly, which will plan the future of Iraq for the coming four years. The importance of the coming elections is that the new assembly …
Read More »Assyrians and the Iraqi National Elections of December 15
Fred AprimCalifornia Introduction People sometimes ask me, why do you bother wasting so much time writing articles when people do not even care? First, I tell them, the time I put into these articles is an investment and never a wasted time. Second, our people do care; but they show …
Read More »Priests Say Iraqi Christians Now Victims of Extortion, Death
ROME (CNS) — Some Christians in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul have become the victims of extortion as unknown terrorist groups threaten to kill them or kidnap family members if they do not pay large sums of cash, said two Iraqi priests. One 43-year-old Christian man, married with three …
Read More »Witnesses Describe Ballot Fraud in Nineveh
WASHINGTON, Nov 4 (IPS) – Reports compiled by the U.S. military in Iraq from its informants and by non-governmental organisations from independent Iraqi sources provide the first detailed picture of a campaign of ballot fraud by Kurdish authorities in Nineveh province, the key to the outcome of the Oct. 15 …
Read More »POLITICS-IRAQ: Vote Figures for Crucial Province Don’t Add Up
The final official figures for the province, obtained by IPS from a U.S. official in Mosul, actually have the constitution being rejected by a fairly wide margin, but less than the two-thirds majority required to defeat it outright. Both the initial figures and the new vote totals raise serious questions …
Read More »Iraq chaos threatens ancient faith
Last Updated: Tuesday, 20 September By Kate Clark BBC News, Damascus Mandean priests fear their creed could disappear completely There are fears for the future of one of the most ancient, as well as the smallest, communities in Iraq – the Mandeans. Their religion, Mandeanism, comes from the same general …
Read More »G.I.’s and Syrians in Tense Clashes on Iraqi Border
The firefight, between Army Rangers and Syrian troops along the border with Iraq, was the most serious of the conflicts with President Bashar al-Assad’s forces, according to American and Syrian officials. It illustrated the dangers facing American troops as Washington tries to apply more political and military pressure on a …
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