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  So when it played for a spot in Sweden?s premier division, Ninos Gawrieh and some 30 friends huddled around a television in a house in the Syrian town of Kamishly, cheering it on. Thousands of other people around the world were also watching the game, hoping that the team …

At a time when the presence of Iraq?s Christian minority could be significant in helping democracy take hold of the war-torn nation, Iraq?s beleaguered Christians continue to flee their country because of attacks and threats, news agencies and persecution watchdogs say. Since the recent wave of church bombings began last …

During the Reagan years, 1980-88, Saddam was encouraged by the United States to go to war with Iran. He received American government patronage in no uncertain terms. He was provided both with guns, as well as chemicals, to make weapons of mass destruction. In the process, he used these weapons …

“I don’t think this is the right moment,” he said. “The very first thing we need is security and reconciliation.”The Tablet reports that Archbishop Basile Georges Casmoussa, 66, was kidnapped from in front of a church in the city and bundled into a car. He was released on Tuesday. The …

Devolution into federated states (letter, January 13) is an apparently attractive answer, the more so since Iraq is an artificial country, cobbled together from three Turkish provinces containing three substantial ethnic/religious groups each of which detests and distrusts both the others. The catch is that it wouldn?t stop there. The …

Bet-Shmuel has lived in exile ever since. But on Monday, he went to a Skokie, Ill., community center to raise his voice once again, this time registering to vote in the Iraqi national elections at the end of this month. All day, hundreds of Iraqi expatriates and their children streamed …

Dating back to the time of World War I, Assyrian civilians lived in their ancestral homeland in South-East Turkey. Geographically, the region is very close to the ancient “Nineveh”. According to the Bible, Jonah was sent by God to this city to proclaim the message of God, later all the …

Nasra Simmeshindi, a 80-year old Assyrian woman, shows a tapestry that she painted depicting the Last Supper of Jesus at her house in Mardin, southeastern Turkey, Dec. 27, 2004. Relative calm following decades of intense fighting in southeastern Turkey and the mainly Muslim country’s drive to join the European Union …

Sami Khosaba Latchin now sits under house arrest in Des Plaines for being an alleged Iraqi agent, ratted out by documents found in a Baghdad apartment and the accusations of admitted spies abroad.Informants who pointed out Latchin for American investigators say he was put in a program that spread sleeper …

Parallèlement, les attaques des rebelles continuent. Une voiture piégée a explosé près du siège à Bagdad du principal parti chiite, le Conseil suprême de la révolution islamique en Irak (CSRII), tuant deux personnes et le kamikaze. Un policier a été tué à Baaqouba, au nord de Bagdad, alors que trois …