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By Melissa Gray, CNN
ISIS in northern Syria plans to release 29 Assyrian Christian hostages among more than 200 captured by the Sunni extremist group, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Saturday, citing an Assyrian commander.
The Syrian Observatory said a self-proclaimed ISIS court ordered the release, and told Continue reading
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Damascus: The 29 Assyrian Christians who were kidnapped by the Islamic State (IS) will soon be released.
These Christians were part of the 220 members of the community kidnapped by the IS on February 23 when the group stormed the town of Tal Tamr, nearly 700 km from Continue reading
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By Melissa Gray, CNN
(CNN)An ISIS court in northern Syria has ordered the release of 29 Assyrian Christian hostages among more than 200 captured by the Sunni extremist group, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Saturday, citing an Assyrian commander. Continue reading
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By Ashraf Khalil
The Associated Press
An Iraqi Assyrian woman who fled from Mosul to Lebanon holds a placard depicting the map of Iraq and Syria during a sit-in for abducted Christians in Sabtiyesh area east Continue reading
The Chaldean Archbishop of Aleppo, who contacted the vicar in Al-Hasakah, denies reports that the Islamic State group executed hostages. The Apostolic Nuncio to Damascus renews his call for caution “because it is difficult to have accurate information.” The fate and number of kidnapped Christians by jihadists remain uncertain. Continue reading
Coptic Christians
Lebanese Christian parties warned on Friday that the existence of the Assyrian Chaldean Syriac population is being threatened by ethnic cleansing, religious persecution and systematic displacement, Anadolu has reported. The Christian groups also criticised the “silence” of the international community over such dangerous threats facing these ethnic minorities. Continue reading
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The parties asserted that humanitarian disaster had befallen civilians in the area due to recent crimes committed by Daesh.
A handful of Lebanese Christian political parties on Friday rang the alarm over threats facing people of Assyrian-Chaldean-Syriac descent in the Middle East region. Continue reading
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An Assyrian fighter during a break from anti-ISIS clashes near Tel Temir in Hasakah province, northeastern Syria. Photo: ARA News
Hasakah, Syria – On Friday, the Assyrian Military Council announced in a statement the death of three of its fighters during clashes with militants of the Islamic State group Continue reading
Ruth Pollard reports from the war zone as Kurdish, Assyrian and Arab militias hold the line against the jihadists of Islamic State.
Atur Aisak, an Assyrian from Tel Tamer. Many of the first 90 Christians kidnapped from the village by IS were members of her extended family. Photo: Fadi Yeni Turk Continue reading
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The Islamic State demanded that the international coalition stops bombing the towns of Tal Tamer and Jabal Abd Al Aziz in exchange for the gradual release of hundreds of Assyrian Christians held hostage. Continue reading
Head of the State Migration Service of Armenia Gagik Yeganyan
YEREVAN (Armenpress)—The Armenian authorities on Friday immediately responded to calls by the Assyrian community to host Assyrian refugees who have been displaced from their native lands in Syria at the hands of the Islamic State. Continue reading
Dutch and Italians training Peshmerga at Duhok Infantry Training Camp on 17 and 18 February
For months, Kurdish peshmerga fighters have been taking up positions around Mosul, Iraq’s second city and a stronghold for the Islamic State of Iraq and Al-Sham. It is now surrounded on three sides and in some cases the front lines are just kilometres away, says a peshmerga spokesman. Continue reading
Assyrians citizens during a sit-in for abducted Christians in Beirut, Lebanon on Thursday. Photo: TT
Sweden’s Foreign Minister Margot Wallström has slammed the abduction of Christians in Syria earlier this week and pledged to keep supporting communities affected by the ongoing fighting in the Middle East. Continue reading
Militants from the self-proclaimed Islamic State have reportedly abducted at least 220 people from Assyrian Christian villages in northeastern Syria during a three-day offensive. Meanwhile, the Islamic State militant nicknamed “Jihadi John,” who has been featured in several beheading videos, has been identified as Mohammed Emwazi, a Continue reading
Assyrians citizens hold placards during a sit-in for abducted Christians in Syria and Iraq, at a church in Sabtiyesh area east Beirut, Lebanon, Thursday, Feb. 26, 2015. Islamic State militants snatched more hostages from homes in northeastern Syria over the past three days, bringing the total number of Christians abducted to over 220 in the one the Continue reading
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IS released a video on Thursday showing its militants smashing ancient statues to pieces with sledgehammers at the Mosul museum. Photo: Reuters Baghdad: Archaeologists expressed fears on Friday that after ransacking the Mosul museum in Iraq, Islamic State group jihadists would embark on a systematic destruction of heritage Continue reading
Men seen attacking ancient artifacts with sledgehammers, calling them symbols of idolatry
Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) fighters in northern Iraq have destroyed a priceless collection of statues and sculptures from the ancient Assyrian era, inflicting what an archaeologist described as incalculable damage to a piece of shared human history. Continue reading
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ISIS militants have destroyed Assyrian sculptures at the Nineveh Museum in Mosul, Iraq, using hammers, power tools, and pickaxes, and posted video of the destruction online. This is only the latest act in an ongoing campaign of obliteration of the region’s cultural heritage (see 8,000 Books Burned By ISIS in Massive Libricide and Syria’s Continue reading
By Oliver Holmes and Tom Perry
BEIRUT (Reuters) – A U.S.-led alliance launched air strikes against Islamic State on Thursday in an area of northeast Syria where the militants are now estimated to have abducted at least 220 Assyrian Christians this week, a group monitoring the war reported. Continue reading