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By Jane Arraf
NPR.org, November 4, 2018 · A bidding war at Christie’s this week sent the price of a 3,000-year-old stone relief from $7 million to more than $28 million, setting a world record for ancient Assyrian artworks and raising fears among some archaeologists that soaring prices will fuel the market for looted antiquities as well as legally acquired ones. Continue reading
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Protesters, mainly Kurds, chant slogans during a demonstration in the town of al-Qahtaniyah, in the Hasaka governorate near the Syrian-Turkish border on November 1, 2018, against Turkish attacks on Kurdish posts in northern Syria. Photo: Delil Souleiman | AFP Continue reading
Troy deacon charged with sex assaults on teen boy
Troy — A longtime member and a deacon at a Chaldean Catholic church in Troy faces felony charges related to allegations of “multiple” sexual encounters with a teen boy at the church for more than a year. Continue reading
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Iraqi security checkpoint on Erbil – Kirkuk road. (Photo: Kurdistan 24)
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ERBIL (Kurdistan 24) – The installation of customs points on the Erbil – Kirkuk and Continue reading
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Turkmen party criticizes Baghdad after being overlooked in Iraqi govt. ministerial posts
Demonstrators in Istanbul wave Turkish and Iraqi Turkmen flags during a protest against the independence referendum in Kirkuk, Sep. 17, 2017. (Photo: Reuters)
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By Sonia Moghe, CNN
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New York (CNN)As more than 100 detained Iraqi nationals wait to see if they will be released after many have been held for nearly 18 months, recently unsealed documents raise new questions about Iraq’s desire or ability to accept those detainees against their will. Continue reading
120,000 Christians are believed to have fled Iraq’s Nineveh province during Daesh’s three-year reign of terror
70,000 displaced Christians return to post-Daesh Mosul
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El Cajon, California, is home to a large number of Iraqi Chaldean Christians. Over the past nearly two decades, the Chaldean population in California has become a thriving immigrant community. But many say their hearts and minds are still with their home Continue reading
By Rev. Tim Moore
On the eve of the midterm elections and with a migrant caravan headed toward the U.S., President Trump is doubling down on the immigration rhetoric and policies he believes won him the presidency. But while the president’s base may be energized by Continue reading
By Lyndsey Koh
MENA (MNN) — At least 5,000 Syrian refugees living in Lebanon have voluntarily gone home since the start of August when five crossings opened between the two countries. There are still about 1.5 million refugees in Lebanon, but the slow trickle back to Syria has begun since Beirut and Damascus struck a deal. Continue reading
Churches in Mosul are being rebuilt by locals, but many feel betrayed by Trump [TNA]
In line with his general anti-immigration stance, President Trump is attempting to deter Iraqi and Syrian Christians from seeking safety in the United States, reports James Reinl. Continue reading
The attached pictures are of a procession of prayer and thanksgiving from the town of Baqofa to Batnaya to celebrate the reopening of the road there (mentioned in the story). The procession culminated in a special Mass and celebration at the ancient church of Mar Kyriakos in Batnaya celebrated by representatives of the Diocese of Al Qosh and Continue reading
1 / 12 -Based on traces of pigment discovered on other relief panels, Christie’s New York has created a digital reconstruction to show what the rare Assyrian relief panel it is auctioning might have originally looked like.CHRISTIE’S IMAGES LTD. 2018
Rare 3,000-year-old Assyrian art work expected to fetch more than $10M at auction Continue reading
In this Aug. 22, 2018 photo, Ardawan, 4, eats melon on the kitchen floor of an orphanage for Yazidi children, in Sheikhan, Iraq. The child’s father and four siblings have been missing since August 2014, when Islamic State militants took over northern and western Iraq; he lives at the orphanage with his mother and two remaining siblings. Continue reading
By Murcadha O Flaherty
YOUNG widows in Syria have expressed their personal thanks for emergency aid – shelter, medicine and education – which they say has helped turn their lives round as they struggle to bring up their children. Continue reading
Souleman Yusph was arrested in early October by Assyrian militias working for the Kurdish administration over his articles slamming attempts to close the Christian schools. During captivity, he suffered physical and psychological abuse. Despite the intimidation, he plans to continue his work. He is also disappointed by the actions of the Continue reading
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Pompeo Offers New Iraqi Leader US Support in Returning Christians to Former IS Strongholds
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, in a call to congratulate new Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi on forming a government, emphasized US backing for efforts to let Continue reading
The government claimed a new agreement with Iraq allowed the detentions. Only no such agreement existed.
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Amal Hana protests in June 2017 in Detroit after a family member was detained by Continue reading
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The government of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is helping the Islamic State (ISIS) rebuild a clandestine terror network inside Iraq that poses an ongoing security threat, according to Iraqi National Police Brigadier General Aref al-Zebari. Continue reading
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An Iraqi soldier walks past ancient ruins of Nimrud after the city was recaptured from ISIS in 2016. File photo: Safin Hamed/AFP
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region – The Iraqi government is in contact with New York authorities about a piece of Iraqi history that will go up for auction next week. Continue reading