UNAMI promises to review cases of transgression on our people’s lands
Tue Nov 7
Ruwaida AlHaj (Human Rights Official of UNAMI) assured our representatives that they would follow up with the transgression issue on the lands and villages of our Chaldean Syriac Assyrian people in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, this will be done through field visits to the villages and meetings with officials in authority to end the […]
World leaders stand up for former IS captive at WYF
Tue Nov 7
World leaders and participants at Egypt’s World Youth Forum stood up to give young Yazidi activist Lamiya Aji Bashar a heartfelt round of applause Sunday. Bashar, 19, was kidnapped from her Yazidi village, Kojo, and enslaved by the Islamic State group (IS) in Iraq for 20 months, sold several times in Iraq, Syria, and back […]
A leader in the Assyrian Democratic Movement is demanding the Peshmerga withdraw from Nineveh Plain areas to avoid any tension that could lead the area into more disasters.
Mon Nov 6
Zowaa.org / Nineveh Plain A member of the Political Bureau of the Assyrian Democratic Movement, Mr. Gevara Zaia, called for the withdrawal of the Peshmerga forces from the rest of the Nineveh Plain areas such as Alqosh, Tesqopa (Teleskof) and Shikhan, as well as from Kirkuk and the other so-called “disputed areas” in order to […]
Land grabbing and transgressions continue in Naf Kendala village within the Zakho District.
Sun Nov 5
A group of members of the Kurdish village of Sarsolavki in the Darkar District, led by Tayeb Sallou Aziz, vandalized the fence of a farm belonging to the village of Naf Kendala in the Zakho District. In his statement to Zowaa.org, the village’s mayor said that at 10 am on Friday, November 3, 2017, a […]
Kurdish security forces prevented a leader in Assyrian Democratic Movement from entering into Telesqof
Sun Nov 5
On Sunday, November 5, 2017, the Kurdish security forces prevented a leader of the Assyrian Democratic Movement, Mr. Fuad Masoud, from entering the town of Tesqopa (Teleskof) on false pretexts. The Kurdish Asayish forces prevented Fuad Massoud, who is a resident of Tesqopa, from entering his town, knowing that his family is still living in […]
ABADI: IRAQI FORCES RETAKE AL-QAIM FROM ISLAMIC STATE
Sat Nov 4
– Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi announced the liberation of al-Qaim town from the Islamic State (ISIS) militants, driving another nail into the coffin of the jihadists’ self-styled caliphate. Abadi hailed the “liberation of Al-Qaim in record time” in a statement on Friday (November 3), after Iraqi troops entered the key town on the border […]