News Source: Times Online
| about 1 year ago
One grey-haired woman understands more than most the fear that has gripped Iraq's beleaguered Christian community over the past month. Her brother, Bashar al-Hazim, was among the first to be murdered in a wave of targeted killings that has forced...
News Source: Daily News
| about 1 year ago
The murder of more than a dozen Assyrians in Iraq this month and a mass exodus of Christians from their ancestral homeland drew 100 residents Sunday to a memorial service to pray for an end to what they call a systematic ethnic cleansing. The...
News Source: Androscoggin News
| about 1 year ago
Morning Edition , October 27, 2008 · In northern Iraq, thousands of Christian families remain displaced from their homes in the city of Mosul. Many are living with relatives or taking refuge in churches and monasteries in an area north of the city...
News Source: Times Online
| about 1 year ago
The Christian man crammed his family and their belongings into the car before casting a final glance around the church hall in northern Iraq that had been their refuge for the past fortnight. Satisfied that everything was inside, he climbed behind...
News Source: AntiWar.com
| about 1 year ago
At least 10 Iraqis were killed and another 16 more were wounded as the Iraqi government canceled a meeting where lawmakers hoped to settle disagreements over a U.S.-Iraqi security deal...A meeting to discuss a contentious U.S.-Iraqi security deal was...
News Source: The Washington Times
| about 1 year ago
Assyrian Christians are fleeing Iraq in record numbers, following a spate of recent bombing attacks and targeted killings of Christian families in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul . Over the last month, 13 Assyrian Christians have been murdered in...