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Tim Stanley 12 July 2019 • 6:16pm The official story is that northern Iraq is at peace. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isil) has largely been defeated;…

DETROIT (FOX 2) – More than a dozen protesters were spotted outside a Detroit federal building Friday morning.…

Tanya Moutzalias/MLive Detroit via AP By CHRIS GELARDI A bipartisan group of lawmakers wants to protect Iraqis slated for deportation…

By Samuel Smith, CP Reporter | Friday, By standards look at the aftermath of a car bombing that took place outside the Syriac Orthodox Church of St. Mary in Qamishli, Syria on July 11, 2019. | YouTube/AFP…

Ano Jawhar Abdulmasih Abdoka is the head of the Department of Transport and Communications. For Christians and other minorities the challenge is to remain “in the land of our fathers”.…

With their hometown cleared of terrorist elements, the Chaldean Christian community in southeastern Turkey has returned to restore their local church.…

Each year, thousands flock to Hart Plaza for the Arab and Chaldean Festival, honoring the rich cultural heritage present throughout metro Detroit. The Arab World Festival…

The new KRG government includes two women ministers out of 27 ministers. By Seth J. Frantzman A MEMBER of the Iraqi security forces takes down a Kurdish flag in Kirkuk, Iraq.. (photo credit: REUTERS)…

By Rudaw Ano Jawhar Abdulmasih Abdoka, the new KRG minister of Transportation and Communications, speaks about the new post on July 9, 2019, in Erbil, Kurdistan Region. Photo: Rudaw video…

The prelate urges Chaldean bishops and priests to act this way as the gather for their annual retreat in Ankawa from 8 to 12 July. The task, he warns, is not a source of “dignity and prestige”…

Exactly two years on from the liberation of Mosul from Daesh (ISIS), only 40 Christians at most have returned home to Iraq’s second city. Father Amanuel Adel Kloo, the only priest in Mosul…

• Priest’s struggle to revive Church in city post-Daesh (ISIS) By John Pontifex EXACTLY two years on from the liberation of Mosul from Daesh (ISIS), only 40 Christians at most have returned home to Iraq’s second city.…

Pope Francis during the Pentecost Mass in Saint Peter’s square at the Vatican, on June 9, 2019. Reuters He made the remark in an address to members of a group of charities that help Christians in the Middle East ope Francis said on Monday that he wants to travel to Iraq next year, which would…

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad affirmed on Thursday that Christians in Syria have never been “strangers” in this land, but they have been and still the builders of its civilization and bearers of its human and civilizational message to the whole world side by side with their Muslim brothers.…

Damascus, SANA-President Bashar al-Assad affirmed on Thursday that Christians in Syria have never been “strangers” in this land, but they have been and still the builders of its civilization and bearers of its human and civilizational message to the whole world side by side with their Muslim brothers.…

Sydney – 1 July 2019. The 2019 Assyria Day conference was held on the Sunday 30th of June, 2019. Just over 200 young Assyrians from all over Sydney gathered at Eden Venues “Nineveh Lounge” for the 9th annual Assyria Day conference, making it the largest Assyria Day conference held in NSW. The theme for this…

Damaged homes will be rebuilt in Batnaya in northern Iraq with the help of 500,000 dollars in donations collected by the Hungarian Catholic Bishops’ Conference, the organisation said on Wednesday.…

Melkite Father Gabriel Hachem, part of a team from Lebanon that conducted trauma healing sessions in Irbil, Iraq, poses during an interview at St. Joseph University in Beirut June 26, 2019. (CNS photo/Dalia Khamissy)…

Join us on Thursday July 4th 2019, 4 P.M. at ‘The Palmer House’ Hilton, Chicago Illinois, for a unique and significant presentations by the AHEPA HCC on the “The Hellenic Genocide in the Late Turkish Ottoman Period”. During the period 1894 to 1923″, and prior. The systematic genocide of the Christian minorities was instituted by…

A view overlooking the old city of Shingal, from a Catholic Cathedral toward the Shia Muslims’ hilltop Shrine of Saida Zeyneb. (Photo: Kurdistan 24/Levi Clancy)…