The Assyrian Democratic Organization
Washington – AINA ++ The United States Congress’ Sub-Committee on State and Foreign Operations is targeting “not less than $20 million” for vulnerable Iraqi minorities in the Financial Year 2010 State and Foreign Operations Appropriation. On Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009, the Full Appropriations Committee confirmed the decision and the …
Read More »Turks Increasingly Turn to Islamic Extremism
By Sebastian Rotella en Los Angeles Times Reporting from London ++ In an audio message from a hide-out in South Asia this month, an Al Qaeda chief did something new: He sang the praises of an ethnic group that once barely registered in the network. “We consider the Muslims in …
Read More »Turks Increasingly Turn to Islamic Extremism
By Sebastian Rotella en Los Angeles Times Reporting from London ++ In an audio message from a hide-out in South Asia this month, an Al Qaeda chief did something new: He sang the praises of an ethnic group that once barely registered in the network. “We consider the Muslims in …
Read More »In Nineveh, Tensions Between Iraqi Kurds and Arabs Simmer
By Liz Sly Bashiqa, Iraq – Los Angeles Times ++ On a quiet stretch of road flanked by the rolling hills of northern Nineveh province stands a checkpoint many fear could become the next frontline in a new conflict over age-old issues of land and power dividing Arabs and Kurds. …
Read More »Director Nuri Kino: What Was Done to Me Created Me
Mardin, Turkey – Hurriyet ++ MARDIN – A Syriac [Assyrian] man, whose life story is like a film, is a part of this year’s Sinemardin Film Festival in the southeastern Mardin. Well-known journalist and director Nuri Kino, who was born in Midyat but raised in Sweden, says, ‘I have seen …
Read More »Turkish Court Rules Against Assyrian Monastery
By Nuri Kino Midyat, Turkey – AINA ++ The Turkish court issued two decisions today in the case of the embattled Assyrian monastery St. Gabriel and postponed until September 30 another decision. The dispute is over the so-called forest, land that lies within the monastery grounds and which is comprised …
Read More »In Nineveh, Tensions Between Iraqi Kurds and Arabs Simmer
By Liz Sly Bashiqa, Iraq – Los Angeles Times ++ On a quiet stretch of road flanked by the rolling hills of northern Nineveh province stands a checkpoint many fear could become the next frontline in a new conflict over age-old issues of land and power dividing Arabs and Kurds. …
Read More »Director Nuri Kino: What Was Done to Me Created Me
Mardin, Turkey – Hurriyet ++ MARDIN – A Syriac [Assyrian] man, whose life story is like a film, is a part of this year’s Sinemardin Film Festival in the southeastern Mardin. Well-known journalist and director Nuri Kino, who was born in Midyat but raised in Sweden, says, ‘I have seen …
Read More »Turkish Court Rules Against Assyrian Monastery
By Nuri Kino Midyat, Turkey – AINA ++ The Turkish court issued two decisions today in the case of the embattled Assyrian monastery St. Gabriel and postponed until September 30 another decision. The dispute is over the so-called forest, land that lies within the monastery grounds and which is comprised …
Read More »Syriac Leader Renews Communion With Rome
VATICAN CITY – zenitorg ++ The patriarch of Antioch of the Syrians expressed today to Benedict XVI his wishes for just peace in Iraq, reconciliation in Lebanon and the Holy Land, and the end of the Christian exodus from the Middle East. His Beatitude Ignace Youssif III Younan was …
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