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‘It’s time to be real: what happens in Iraq is ethnic cleansing’ – UK analyst

July 12, 2019 Iraq Genocide, Iraq, Islamic extremism, Islamic State, Minorities, Nineveh Plains, UK, UN, USA, Yazidis

Tahira Church in Qaraqosh, a Christian town in northern Iraq, shortly after liberation from Islamic State in November 2016. (Photo: World Watch Monitor)

...under IS occupation. The UK also has been slow on the uptake. Read more Iraqi Christians hesitate to return to Bartella Iraqi Christian family ordered to leave IDP camp but...

Iraq: Five years after IS occupied Mosul, returnees live in fear

June 10, 2019 Iraq Bartella, Bashar Warda, Human rights, Iraq, Islamic State, Minorities, Mosul, Nineveh Plains, Ramadan, Shabak

...of possible attacks from the IS cells or sectarian militias. Salim Harihosan, a Christian resident, told AP he regretted coming back to his hometown, Bartella, 23km east of Mosul. Although...

Iraqi Christians hesitate to return to Bartella

February 12, 2019 Iraq Bartella, Iraq, Islamic State, Mosul, Nineveh Plains

...AP that the Shabak are pushing the Christian community out of Bartella. There are reports of sexual harassment. The tensions in Bartella are illustrative of what is happening in other...

UK parliamentary group calls out 27 countries for ‘significant’ religious freedom violations

December 10, 2018 Global News -- No Particular Country Afghanistan, Ahmed Shaheed, Bangladesh, Central African Republic, China, Colombia, Egypt, Eritrea, Human rights, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Maldives, Myanmar, Nigeria, North Korea, Pakistan, Religious freedom, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Tariq Ahmad, Turkey, Turkmenistan, UK, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, Yemen

A church in Bartella, a town near the Iraqi city of Mosul, after Islamic State militants left the area in October 2016. (Photo: World Watch Monitor) A “Commentary on the...

Iraq: children wounded in Easter Monday explosion

April 4, 2018 Iraq Bartella, Children, Easter, Erbil, IDPs, Iraq, Islamic State, Nineveh Plains, Qaraqosh

Bartella’s Christians returned home last year to celebrate Easter together (World Watch Monitor) Four children were wounded on Easter Monday when a bomb exploded outside a medical complex in Bartella,...

Iraq’s Assyrian Christians: persecution and resurgence

April 4, 2018 Iraq Ankawa, Assyrians, Bartella, Chaldeans, Erbil, Iraq, Islamic State, Karamles, Kurds, Migrants, Nineveh Plains, Peshmerga, Qaraqosh, Refugees, Saddam Hussein, Syria, Women, Yazidis

...well as of neighbouring Bartella and Karamles, is now managed by the NPU’s 500 soldiers. All of them are residents of the Nineveh Plains and members of the Chaldean and...

Fresh move to prosecute IS for genocide

March 21, 2018 Global News -- No Particular Country David Cameron, Europe, France, Genocide, International Criminal Court, Iraq, Islamic State, Kuwait, Lord Alton, Netherlands, Poland, Russia, Sweden, Syria, UK, UN, USA

Destroyed market in the town of Bartella, 15km east of Mosul, which was liberated from IS by Iraqi forces in October 2016. (Photo World Watch Monitor)

Bartella, 15km east of Mosul, was liberated from IS by Iraqi forces in October 2016. (Photo World Watch Monitor) Campaigners have welcomed a bill designed to facilitate the prosecution of...

The Christian teenager IS turned into an atheist

February 9, 2018 Iraq Bartella, Iraq, Islamic State

Ibrahim, 17, looks through the gates of a church damaged by ISIS fighters in Bartella, Iraq. (Richard Hall / PRI) Seventeen-year-old Ibrahim* found himself trapped in the northern Iraqi town...

Over 800,000 call on UN to protect Christians in Middle East

December 12, 2017 Global News -- No Particular Country Bartella, Bashar Warda, Brazil, India, Iraq, Islamic State, Karamles, Middle East, Mike Pence, New York, Qaraqosh, Syria, UN, USA

Noeh (bottom) with his parents, Hathem and Almas, and siblings Sam (17), Jan Hannah (14), and Salina (7). (Photo: World Watch Monitor)

...our full rights in Iraq… This is the most important thing we need to continue staying in Iraq,” said Father Behnam Benoka, a Syriac Catholic priest from Bartella, northern Iraq,...

Christians on alert as Iraqi forces take over Nineveh Plains

October 18, 2017 Iraq Bartella, Bashiqa, Iraq, Islamic State, Nineveh Plains, Peshmerga, Saddam Hussein

Christian returnees have lunch together in Bashiqa, August 2017. (Photo: World Watch Monitor)

...says, having lived in Iraq for generations and witnessed many wars and conflicts. According to another priest, Father Yacoub, who is from Bartella, 15km south of Bashiqa, “Nothing worse than...

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