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News Source: Middle East Security News
| about 1 year ago
The United Nations Friday condemned the attacks on the Christian community in northern Iraq as the number of displaced approaches 10,000...High Commissioner for Refugees said around 9,360 people have fled violence in and around the city of Mosul that...
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News Source: Androscoggin News
| about 1 year ago
ulf News Published: October 18, 2008, 00:01 Arab Christians, who have for centuries been prominent in the ranks of the Arab nationalist movement and are among the pioneers of culture and politics in the region, are today fleeing their lands.
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News Source: CNN
| about 1 year ago
Iraqi security forces Friday arrested four men in Mosul for allegedly committing criminal attacks against civilians in that northern city, particularly against Christians, a defense ministry spokesman said. "We know that they are part of a criminal...
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News Source: Gulf News
| about 1 year ago
The Iraqi government has developed a security plan aimed at securing the return of all the Christian families that left their neighbourhoods, but Katie Al Qaban, a 50-year-old Christian woman who came from the Al Hadbaa neighbourhood of Mosul, says...
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News Source: BBC
| about 1 year ago
The US military and the Iraqi government say Mosul is a bastion for al-Qaeda. Mosul resident Saad, a Sunni Muslim, visited a Christian friend who had recently left the city, and gave the BBC News website his view from the ground. My friend is with...
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News Source: Uinta County News
| about 1 year ago
Senior Iraqi officials to probe attacks on Christians in Mosul Reuters Published: October 14, 2008, 21:36 Mosul: Iraq's government pledged to send senior officials to tackle violence against Christians which has led thousands to flee their homes. "...
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News Source: Press TV
| about 1 year ago
Twelve Christian Iraqis have been killed in past weeks in the northern city of Mosul, prompting more than 1,300 families of the mixed Christian minorities to leave their homes in the capital of the Nineveh province. The attacks have been widely...
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News Source: Jerusalem Post
| about 1 year ago
A bomb planted near a north Baghdad mosque killed three Shi'ite worshipers as they were leaving Friday prayers, officials said, as Iraqi mosques used the holy day of the Muslim week to address a recent spate of attacks against Christians. Police and...
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News Source: Al Sharq Al Awsat
| about 1 year ago
About half of the Christians in Iraq's northern town of Mosul, nearly 10,000 people, have fled in the past week after attacks and threats, the United Nations refugee agency said on Friday...High Commissioner for Refugees said Iraq's ministry of...
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News Source: Gulf News
| about 1 year ago
Gemayel was quoted by media as saying that a campaign targeting Iraqi Christians was "part of a campaign to displace them, similar to displacing of Palestinians" by Israel. Thousands of Iraq Christians have fled their homes in Mosul following attacks...