Assyrian news

Wednesday, December 16, 2009   In Mosul, a person was killed and 40 others wounded in two blasts which targeted two Syrian Catholic Churches at 11 a.m. A car bomb, struck the Syrian Orthodox Church of Purity in police neighborhood, killing a citizen and wounding 40 others. While the second …

Wednesday, 11 November 2009   Ethnic minorities living in northern Iraq face a human rights "catastrophe" as Arabs and Kurds vie for control, Human Rights Watch has warned. Yazidis, Shabaks and Christians faced attacks by Sunni Muslim extremists and harassment by Kurdish forces, it said. HRW called on Kurdish leaders …

SENIOR There is no doubt about which team has the best players, which team is the big brother and which team that is best in Södertälje, it is no other than the fantastic Assyriska Fotbolls Förening.   For every Assyriska supporters, you will feel joy every time our team wins …

By Khalid Shah Special to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch   Until our invasion of Iraq, the 1.4 million large Christian population in Iraq (7% of the population) was one of the oldest, large, healthy minority population anywhere in the world. It was/is one of the oldest Christian populations anywhere in …

By Paul Schemm The Associated Press  BAGHDAD —  Iraq has lost more than half the Christians who once called it home, mostly since the war began, and few who fled have plans to return, The Associated Press has learned. Pope Benedict XVI called attention to their plight during a Mideast visit …

The 7th of August has been designated as a Memorial Day for Assyrian Martyrs. Every nation needs to have a day set aside for the remembrance of those who gave their lives for the preservation of their cultural and ethnic identity. This is especially important for the Assyrian Nation; for …

By Anthony Shadid SULAYMANIYAH, Iraq – Washington Post ++ The ruling parties of Iraq’s Kurdish autonomous region won a comfortable majority in parliament, unofficial results showed on Sunday, but a strong performance by the opposition has already begun to rework the balance of power. In an election Saturday that drew …

By Anthony Shadid SULAYMANIYAH, Iraq – Washington Post ++ The ruling parties of Iraq’s Kurdish autonomous region won a comfortable majority in parliament, unofficial results showed on Sunday, but a strong performance by the opposition has already begun to rework the balance of power. In an election Saturday that drew …

Berlin – DPA ++ Iraq is sliding into anarchy, with religious minorities especially at risk when the state loses its ability to function properly, the Catholic archbishop of Baghdad said in a German radio interview Wednesday. Christians inhabited Iraq even before Islam, but today there are only an estimated 800,000 …

Washington – AINA ++ Congressman Frank Wolf (10th district, Virginia) and Congresswoman Anna Eshoo (14th district, California) sent a letter (PDF) to Iraq’s primer minister Nouri al-Maliki, who is in Washington this week to meet Obama. The letter expressed concern over the latest church bombings in Iraq. In their letter, …