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        Nineveh – ESNA — A member of the Assyrian General Conference (AGC), in the Nineveh district of north Iraq, was attacked by members of the Kurdish Peshmergas (military) on September 4, near the Nineveh hotel. The unidentified man was beaten, verbally abused and taken to a Peshmerga center …

        USA – ESNA — The U.S. Government needs to take action. That was the message from the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom, an independent, bipartisan federal agency. In a letter from Chairman Michael Cromartie to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, he urges the U.S. government to …

        AMSTERDAM – AP — Acting on a French warrant, Dutch police arrested a suspected member of a Kurdish rebel group who fled custody in Paris, the public prosecutor said Sunday. The 29-year-old suspect, whose name was not released, had been in hiding with supporters of the Kurdish Workers …

  By Joe Dana Baghdad – azcentral — The article is a harsh critique of the U.S. government and it’s allies for not protecting minority religions of Iraq, including Iraq’s Assyrian (Christian) communities. As Shea powerfully pointed out, “They don’t sponsor terrorism, hold political power or have strong regional allies. …

      USA – USCIRF — The U.S. Government needs to take action. That was the message from the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom, an independent, bipartisan federal agency. In a letter (AINA 9-7-2007, included below) from Chairman Michael Cromartie to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, he urges the …

More Pictures Day 1:Assyrian LanguageArabic LanguageZweden / Södertälje – ADO — The first day of the events was attended by over 600 people from all areas around the world. The opening began at 4:00 PM local Sweden time with a speech and a poem in Classical Assyrian (Syriac) by the …

        Lebanon – The Daily Star — Over the past few months, Lebanon has been careening like a rudderless ship toward the iceberg of a full-blown crisis over the presidential election. Even before impact, the ship is already sinking: the failure to resolve the power struggle between the ruling …

  By Mohammed A. Salih Arbil(North-Iraq) – IPS — The deadly attack on the Yazidi minority in northern Iraq earlier this month is expected to worsen ethnic and sectarian tensions. The suicide bombings in Kahtaniya and al-Jazeera villages in the northern Nineveh province of Iraq Aug. 14 left more than …

  By Mohammed A. Salih Beirut- Naharnet-AFP — Prime Minister Fouad Saniora’s government was considering severing private Hizbullah phone network connections that had started out in south Lebanon and ended up in Beirut and its suburbs. “We agreed to draw a plan of action for a peaceful resolution of this …

  By George Jaksa Flint, Michigan – The Flint Journal — The patriarch of the worldwide Assyrian Church of the East will be at Mar Shimun Bar-Sabbai Church of the East this weekend for a parish visit and to ordain a deacon for the church. The patriarch, known as Mar …