Monthly Archives: February 2015

Assyrian Chaldean Syriac population is under threat, warn Lebanese Christians

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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.…

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Lebanon parties decry ISIS crimes against minorities

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World Bulletin / News Desk 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.…

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Three Assyrian fighters killed during clashes with ISIS

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ARA News 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…

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Armenia Ready to Receive Assyrian Refugees

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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.…

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Sweden raps ‘brutal’ Assyrian abductions

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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.…

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Militants abduct more Christians, smash ancient artifacts

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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…

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Fears mount for Iraq heritage after IS museum rampage Particularly at risk are the ancient cities of Hatra, a UNESCO world heritage site, and Nimrud

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AFP Mail Me 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…

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ISIL video shows destruction of 7th century artifacts

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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.…

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ISIS Militants Storm Museum and Smash 3,000 Year Old Assyrian Sculptures on Video

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Image via im41.com 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…

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Air strikes hit Islamic State in Syria after Christians abducted

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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.…

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Christians flee jihadists after Syria kidnappings

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Rana Moussaoui Banner Icon WAR IN SYRIA The kidnapping of nearly 100 Assyrian Christians by Islamic State militants in Syria has prompted terrified families to flee their homes, activists said, as Washington vowed to defeat the group. Nearly 1,000 families have fled villages in the northeastern province of Hasakeh since…

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Death feared for ISIS-abducted Christians

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by Karen L. Willoughby CNN/Youtube/screen capture ISIS tanks on parade. TEL SHAMIRAM, Syria (Christian Examiner) – Concerns are escalating about the fate of the 150 Assyrian Christians seized by Islamic State jihadists from their villages early Monday, with one activist expressing fears the captured men, women and children will be killed like the 21 Coptic…

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Activists: Islamic State group now holding 220 Christians in Syria

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Jane Onyanga-Omara / USA Today Fighters of the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) stand near a pick-up truck mounted with an anti-aircraft weapon in front of a church in the Assyrian village of Tel Jumaa, north of Tel Tamr town February 25, 2015. Kurdish militia pressed an offensive against Islamic State in northeast Syria on…

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