Assyrian news

        SULAIMANIYAH, Iraq – AFP — Iraq’s three-member presidency council on Friday approved a long-delayed provincial election law, clearing the final hurdle for polls to go ahead early next year, an official present at the meeting told AFP. “The presidency council has adopted the provincial election law,” said …

  By Edward Leigh    Mosul, Iraq – catholicherald — I have just spent a memorable week in northern Iraq as a guest of the Assyrian Christians, becoming the first British MP to visit the lawless land north of Mosul since 2003. When we think of Christianity here in the …

  By Ayesha Awan    Mosul, Iraq – idsnews — We all have at least a vague idea about Iraq’s ethnic and sectarian tensions. Words most Americans had not heard prior to the 2003 invasion — Sunni, Shia, Kurd — are now regularly in news stories, usually in conjunction with …

        Baghdad, Iraq – DPA — More than 10,000 Iraqi Christians demonstrated Thursday in the northern Dahuk province, demanding self-rule in their area and restoration of a clause in the new elections law that would guarantee their representation in provincial councils. “The demonstrators will present an official memo …

        Baghdad – DPA — The absence of a clause that defines the quota of minorities in provincial councils is a threat to Iraq’s national unity, the leader of the Sadrist bloc said on Tuesday. ‘Minorities should be given their rights in the provincial councils to contribute to …

        North, Iraq – AINA — Thousands of Assyrians (also known as Chaldeans and Syriacs) took to the streets in cities across northern Iraq’s Nineveh plain yesterday to protest what they see as a deliberate manoeuvre by the political majority to shut them out of Iraqi politics. The …

        Arbel, Iraq – Voices of Iraq — A Christian minister in Kurdistan’s regional government on Friday lashed out the provincial elections law lately endorsed by the parliament for marginalising his religious denomination. “The version of the law reached by the parliament’s legal committee along with regions and …

        Mosul, Iraq – AFP — Crowds of Iraqi Christians protested on Sunday against a newly approved provincial election law, saying the legislation failed to represent the interests of the minority community. Protestors shouted slogans against Baghdad’s Shiite-led government and against the law in the town of Al-Kosh …

        DAMASCUS – AFP — Counter-terrorist officers in Syria on Sunday hunted for those responsible for a car bomb attack that killed 17 people in Damascus, one of the deadliest attacks in the country in more than a decade. The bombing Saturday near a Shiite shrine in the …