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BAGHDAD – UPI — At least a third of Iraq’s Christian community has fled as a result of targeting by Islamic militants, The Washington Times reported Monday. The exodus has been especially acute in Baghdad where Christians were a long-standing minority, The Times reported. Aid groups estimate between …
Read More »Syria complains to UN over Israel
Wednesday, 12 September 2007 Syria has formally complained to the United Nations about an alleged raid by Israeli aircraft over its territory. The Syrian ambassador, Bashar Jaafari, said Israeli fighter planes had dropped munitions after crossing Syria‘s frontier last Thursday. Mr Jaafari described the incident as a flagrant …
Read More »The Syria-North Korea ‘connection’
Tuesday, 18 September 2007 By Jonathan Marcus Diplomatic correspondent, BBC News Nearly two weeks on from Israel‘s incursion into Syrian airspace, the mystery surrounding the operation shows little sign of disappearing. Israel has kept up a careful policy of silence over the accusations Press reports suggest strongly that the …
Read More »Assad sets conference conditions
Monday, 1 October 2007 Mr Assad talks to BBC Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has said his government will not attend a Middle East peace conference unless Syria‘s concerns are addressed. President Assad told the BBC that this meant primarily the return of the Golan Heights, occupied by Israel …
Read More »Israel admits air strike on Syria
Tuesday, 2 October 2007 It is still not known why Israel carried out the strike or what was hit Israel has confirmed that it carried out a strike on a Syrian military installation last month. Syria accused Israel at the time but Israeli officials refused to …
Read More »Turkey-Iraq agree security pact
Friday, 28 September 2007 Turkish and Iraqi interior ministers ironed out most of their differences Iraq and Turkey have signed a security agreement aimed at curbing the activities of the Turkish Kurdish separatist group, the PKK. However, the final agreement does not include a key Turkish proposal that …
Read More »‘Al-Qaeda figure’ killed in Iraq
Friday, 28 September 2007 The US military said Abu Osama al-Tunisi was a “key loss” to al-Qaeda A senior leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq was killed in a US air strike near Baghdad on Tuesday, the US military reports. Gen Joseph Anderson said the death of Abu Osama …
Read More »Iraqi Christians Forced to Flee Homes or Risk Death
By James Palmer BAGHDAD – Newhouse News Service — Nabil Comanny and his family endured the dead bodies left to decompose along the road in their southern Dora neighborhood. They accepted the criminal gangs that roamed the area, searching for targets to kidnap. And neither the utility failures nor …
Read More »Assyriska tillbaka där solen skiner
Sweden- Sodertalije — Regnet började falla mot slutet av matchen. Men ändå, när domaren blåste av var Assyriska på en plats där det känns som om solen skiner – nämligen superettan. Publiken hade sedan länge jublat och sjungit vilt. Speakern hade bett folk stanna på läktaren och meddelat att …
Read More »Radical Syrian cleric ‘shot dead’
Saturday, 29 September 2007 A Syrian cleric suspected of recruiting foreign militants to fight in Iraq has been shot dead in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo, his aides have said. Sheikh Mahmoud Abu al-Qaqaa was shot several times by a gunman as he left the Imam Mosque after …
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