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AAS-Iraq supports our students with the beginning of the new school year
Sun Nov 19
With the start of the new academic year 2017 – 2018 in order to bring joy in the hearts of our students and support their parents. The Assyrian Aid Society, in cooperation with the International Christian Orthodox and International Lutheran Relief Societies (IOCC), distribute stationery to our students at various levels of study in the governorates […]
UNAMI delegation hosts meeting with our people’s representatives in Duhok to discuss transgression on our lands.
Sun Nov 12
On November 11, 2017, Ms. Ruwaida Al-Haj, an official of the Human Rights Office of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI), held a meeting with Chaldean Syriac Assyrian representatives in Dohuk to discuss the land grabbing violations in the villages of our people in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq and to discuss the […]
Kurdish Asayish forces arrest four young men from our community in Teleskof
Fri Nov 10
According to media sources, the Kurdish Asayish forces arrested four young men in the town of Tesqopa (Teleskof), Nineveh Plain on different and unclear charges in the last two days. Ankawa.com reported that the Kurdish security forces arrested the first young man [Q] on Thursday (November 9) morning. On the same day, another young man […]
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 […]
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 […]
Statement on Nineveh Plain – Chaldean Patriarchate
Tue Oct 3
The Patriarchate Media It is unfortunate that the attempt to put a hand on the towns of the Nineveh Plain, through public or concealed struggles is imposing a negative influence on the native people of this land. This sort of “Control / Invasion” is taking away the indigenous legitimate rights, provokes them to emigrate or forcing […]