QAMISHLI, Syria, October 22 (UNHCR) – The UN refugee agency has begun helping hundreds of Iraqi Christians who fled to Syria to escape violence and threats in the northern Iraq city of Mosul. Thousands of Christians have left Mosul over the past fortnight. Most have found shelter in ...
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DAMASCUS, 21 October 2008 (IRIN) - Several hundred Iraqis returned home from Syria this week and last, but thousands more continue to register with the UN in Damascus to receive vital food aid, underscoring the hardship faced by the huge refugee community. Some 150 Iraqi refugees flew back to ...
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BAGHDAD, 20 October 2008 (IRIN) - Iraqi officials, leaders of the Christian community and ordinary Christians are divided over who is behind the latest attacks on the country’s Christian minority. All are agreed, however, on the need to address the unprecedented violence in the northern province of Ninevah which ...
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There are no indications that the Qaeda group in Iraq is involved in forcing Christians to flee the northern city of Mosul, a senior Interior Ministry official said. But Ministry spokesman Abdulkarim Khalaf declined to say who was behind the latest wave of anti-Christian violence in the city, a traditional ...
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CAIRO, 14 October 2008 (IRIN) - Hamid Amin Hamza, his wife Om Omar, and their family of 10, including their physically disabled son Jaafar, live in a shabby apartment in Cairo’s Madinat Nasser suburb. They fled Iraq in 2007 and reached Egypt via Syria seeking security, economic stability and above ...
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The government says it does not believe that al Qaeda is behind the killings. Condemnation of the attacks has also come from the the highest Shiite authority, grand ayatollah Ali Sistani. Baghdad (AsiaNews/Agencies) - Who is behind the attacks on Christians in Mosul? The Iraqi government says it does not ...
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Christians set up tents for Christian families fleeing the campaign of murder and persecution being waged against them in Mosul. The photo was taken in Burtulla soccer stadium 30 kilometters east of Mosul on October 12th 2008. Mohammed Ibn Laith
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These families are going through hard times, with panic, sadness and misery obvious in their faces. They have left their properties and their children are out of school… displacement is still under way.
BAGHDAD, 13 October 2008 (IRIN) - Calls for more humanitarian aid have been made as an increasing number ...
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BAGHDAD, 12 October 2008 (IRIN) - Nearly 750 Christian families, about 3,750 individuals, have fled their homes in Mosul, a city about 400km north of Baghdad, as Sunni Muslim extremists have increased attacks against this religious minority since 4 October, a local official said on 11 October. “We have ...
Yesterday, a 38-year-old Chaldean was shot to death, but there could be a total of three victims. Men are driving around the city shouting slogans against the Christians, threatening more slaughter and violence. From the U.S. command, confirmation that Mosul has become the last stronghold of the al Qaeda ...
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