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DAMASCUS, Syria – zenit — A Syrian archbishop is calling on world leaders and the Arab League to rescue the Christians of Iraq. Patriarch Gregorios III Laham of Antioch of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church launched an appeal Wednesday, recalling that Iraq is “home to Abraham, the father …
Read More »Iraqi PM Confirms Kurds Behind Mosul Attacks; 2nd Army Unit Ordered Out
Iraq – AINA — Iraq’s mainly Kurdish second army unit has been ordered out of Mosul and to Anbar for training after accusations were made that some of its members carried out the violence against the Assyrians of Mosul in the past four weeks (AINA 10-22-2008, 10-16-2008). The violence …
Read More »Letter from the parties and organizations and institutions to the President of the Republic of Iraq
Letter from the parties and organizations and institutions of Assyrian Chaldean Syriac to the President of the Republic of Iraq on forced migrated from Mosulto Europe – ADO — Today, the Chaldean-Syriac-Assyrians are victims of daily killings, mass exodus, discrimination and persecution throughout Iraq, and the city of …
Read More »Kurds Seen Behind Attacks on Christians in Iraq
By Basil Adas Baghdad – gulfnews — Kurdish involvement is suspected in the recent wave of violence against Christians in Mosul, Gulf News has learnt. “Investigations have been completed and proved the involvement of Kurdish militias in the displacement and killing of Christians,” Prime Minister Nouri Al Maliki reportedly said …
Read More »Some Displaced Iraqi Christians Ponder Kurds’ Role
By Corey Flintoff Nineveh Plain, Iraq – NPR — These are startling observations coming from people who are, in effect, living on Kurdish generosity. The settlement where Abu Sara and his family are staying was built by the finance minister of the Kurdistan Regional Government — a Christian named …
Read More »Iraq, the Pogrom of the Christians
By Luca Galassi Mosul – peacereporter — There is only one ‘solution’: force. Intensify the surveillance, the patrols, and the control to counter the violence against the Christians. To protect the community in Mosul, the most dangerous area for the Iraqi religious minority, the government is going to increase the …
Read More »Iraqi Christians’ fear of exile
Tuesday, 28 October 2008 By Jim Muir BBC News, Tellkeyf Camping with her two youngest children in a room at one of the churches in Tellkeyf, Ikhlas Matti bursts into tears when she tries to describe what has happened to her family. "My children are scattered all around," she …
Read More »Kurds Arrest Yezidi Activists in North Iraq
Baghdad – AINA — Yezidi Iraqi MP Amin Farhan announced on Sunday the arrest of members from the Yezidian Movement for Reform and Progress by Kurdish Asayesh intelligence agents. The Yezidis were captured in the province of Dohuk, north Iraq and were taken to an undisclosed location. The …
Read More »US Officials Say Syria Raid Killed Terrorist Leader
By Jonathan S. Landay WASHINGTON – McClatchy Newspapers– A U.S. raid on a farm in eastern Syria is thought to have killed an Iraqi smuggler who oversaw the infiltration of foreign fighters into Iraq for the al-Qaida in Iraq terrorist group, a U.S. official said Monday. The smuggler, whom …
Read More »Iraqi Christians: Fleeing Mosul
Abdirahim Saeed Mosul – BBC — Mosul in northern Iraq remains a fierce battleground for al-Qaeda militants. Violence against the city’s Christian community spiked in early October, prompting more than 13,000 Christians to flee. BBCArabic.com spoke to a few of them sheltering in villages north of the city. SOOAD, …
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