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AFP, Nov 1, 2010, 03.25am IST   BAGHDAD: Seven Christians were killed Sunday and at least 13 wounded in a rescue operation involving US and Iraqi forces to end a hostage drama at a church in the Iraqi capital, officials said. All eight gunmen were also killed when US and …

By Lewis Smith Monday, 1 November 2010 – 04h00 At least seven hostages and seven members of the Iraqi security forces were killed when Islamic militants took 120 people hostage in a Catholic church. A four-hour siege was ended when security forces stormed the church in Baghdad while the terrorists …

Published: 8:10AM Monday November 01, 2010 Source: Reuters At least seven Iraqi Catholics died today when police stormed a Baghdad church where gunmen were holding dozens of parishioners hostage, threatening to kill them if al Qaeda prisoners were not released.     The US military said between seven and 10 hostages …

Up to 25 hostages were killed during a shoot-out between US and Iraqi forces and al-Qaeda-linked gunmen in a Catholic church in Baghdad on Sunday.   By Our Foreign Staff Published: 11:57PM GMT 31 Oct 2010 American soldiers and Iraqi security forces had entered the church in the centre of …

The BBC’s Jim Muir in Baghdad says that the death toll remains unclear At least 37 people have been killed after Iraqi security forces stormed a Catholic church in central Baghdad to free dozens of hostages being held by gunmen there, security sources say. Twenty-five hostages were among the dead, …

BAGHDAD | Sun Oct 31, 2010 2:27pm EDT   Oct 31 (Reuters) – Iraqi police stormed a church taken over by suspected al Qaeda-linked gunmen on Sunday and released the Catholic hostages that had been held inside, Iraqi and U.S. officials said. "The operation has finished and we released all …

By Owen Jarus The Independent, UK Friday, 15 October 2010 Archaeologists excavating a 2,700 year old temple at the ancient city of Tayinat, in southeastern Turkey, have discovered evidence that its inhabitants prominently displayed a tablet which bore a pledge of loyalty to the heir of an Assyrian king. The …

Santa MIKAIL – Brussels   On Thursday, October 5, 2010, a delegation of the Assyrian Democratic Organization (ADO – Mtakasta  Europe), which included Mr. Ablahad Astepho (Director of ADO Europe) and Mr. Georges Chachan (Head of ADO Belgium), met with His Grace Louis Sako, Chaldean Archbishop of Kirkuk. The meeting took …

ADO – Baghdeda, Iraq On Tuesday October 12, 2010, the Baghdeda Security Guards in coordination with the Kurdish Asayish Forces captured Ali Muhammad Idris Sadeq, a top Al-Qaeda leader, in the town of Baghdeda, Iraq.  He is currently detained and being questioned.

ADO – Iraq:  On Thursday October 7, 2010, Adnan Aziz Marqus Batti of Batnaya was released after being kidnapped for two days by an unknown terrorist group, while working in the city of Mosul. His family paid a ransom amount of $15,000 (Fifteen Thousand US Dollars) for his release.