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By Lucine KasbarianRecent articles in the mainstream media would have us believe that governments around the world somehow question the factuality of the 1915 Armenian, Assyrian and Greek genocides committed by Turkey. These articles would also have us...

On the evening of Jan. 26, 2006, military guards at Guantanamo Bay made an alarming discovery during a routine cell check. Lying on the bed of a Saudi detainee was an 18-page color brochure.

BEIRUT, Lebanon (UNHCR) -- Early results from Iraq's national election, widely seen as a test of its democracy and a step towards stability after years of sectarian conflict, brought mixed reactions from Iraqi refugees still concerned about the situati...

Most Americans want our investment of blood and treasure in Iraq not to have been in vain. Even though Iraq's progress from dictatorship to democracy appears a success the March 7 election makes it clear that it's not the time to declare that democrac...

Christianity Face to Face with Islam No event during the first millennium was more unexpected, more calamitous, and more consequential for Christianity than the rise of Islam.

Much of the media and the western world are again ignoring the appalling slaughters of Christians in Nigeria and other parts of the world and threats of worse to come.

Södertälje, 40 km south-west from Stockholm, is a city with a big immigrant population. Now one of the local politicians has proposed that streets should get more international names to mirror the international composition of the city's population.

BAGHDAD -- Iraq's electoral commission announced Monday that it has counted two-thirds of the nationwide vote from the March 7 parliamentary elections, with Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's political bloc still holding a narrow lead over his closest co...

Zowaa – Special
Mr. Yonadam Kanna: member of Iraqi Council of Representatives and Secretary General of the Assyrian Democratic Movement demands the Independent High Electoral Commission (IHEC) to count nearly 10000 ballots of our Chaldean Syriac Assy...

Zowaa – Baghdad
On the occasion of International Women’s Day which falls on March 8th, the Assyrian Women Union Baghdad Branch celebrated this day in the presence of its secretary Ms. Ban Jamil, which she congratulated the Iraqi women in general an...

Zowaa – Special
Chaldeans Syriac Assyrians in the Diaspora demanded in demonstrations the Independent High Electoral Commission (IHEC) to count the ballots that were excluded from the count because the voters did not present proper Iraqi identificati...

Zowaa – Special
Representatives of political entities in Toronto / Canada
Protest to the Office of the Independent High Electoral Commission
After having a great number of our Iraqi people have waited in long queues in front of the polling center in...

Zowaa – Sweden
Swedish parliament confirmed, on Thursday, March 11th, 2010 and after extensive discussions and debates and with a difference of one vote only, the massacres of (Seyfo) committed against Armenians, Chaldeans Syriac Assyrians and Pontic...

Zowaa – Arizona
Arizona Chapter of the Assyrian Democratic Movement held a seminar directed by Mr. Fareed Yaco: Secretary of the Assyrian Cultural Center in Dohuk and Principle of Shim’ail High School for Syriac studies. This seminar was held on Th...

Diplomatic efforts are underway to mend a rift between Sweden and Turkey, caused by the Swedish parliament's decision to recognize the mass killing of Armenians and other ethnic groups in 1915 as genocide.

Baghdad -- Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Maliki's slate had an early lead Saturday as partial results trickled in from the parliamentary elections last weekend.

Egypt (AINA) -- At 17:00 hours on Friday a Muslim mob attacked a Christian congregation during prayers in the church attached to the services building of the Coptic Church in the Rifeyah area of the Mediterranean seaport of Mersa Matrouh.

(Reuters) -- The foreign ministers of Turkey and Sweden condemned on Saturday a vote in the Swedish parliament that defined the early 20th-century killing of Armenians by Ottoman Turks as genocide.

The recorded past and the remembered past are seldom the same. Nowhere is this more evident than with the Crusades. The Crusades were a belated counter-offensive of Western Christians to come to the aid of Christians of the East in defending their land...

Atlanta -- Why did Lars Vilks, a mild-mannered Swede who calls himself "the artist," booby-trap his art with electrified barbed wire, keep an ax by his bedside, and build a panic room upstairs?
For one, Mr.

That sound you hear is of Conventional Wisdom cracking on the Iraq war.
A few weeks ago Vice President Biden stated that Iraq "could be one of the great achievements of this administration.

If the Iraq war is over, does Bush get the W? As the seventh anniversary of the war in Iraq approaches, an odd dissonance has emerged: Washington is fighting over who should get credit for winning it -- at a time when the country seems to have tuned ou...

Sweden (AINA) -- The historical decision by the Swedish parliament recognizing Seyfo as a de facto genocide on Assyrians, Greeks and Armenians is creating a considerable political crisis in Swedish politics.

Just 10 days ago that the United States House of Representatives' Committee on Foreign Affairs have voted on the recognition of the Armenian Genocide. The decision was upheld by just one vote majority.

Leadville, Colorado (CNN) -- A 31-year-old Colorado mother is being detained in Ireland after being arrested as part of an investigation into a conspiracy to commit murder, the Wall Street Journal reported Saturday, citing unnamed sources familiar with...

(CNN) -- A U.S. senator is calling for a federal probe into the system of background checks for employees at nuclear plants after learning that a suspected al Qaeda member from New Jersey worked at five such sites.

The Swedish parliament has officially recognised the mass killings and deportations of Assyrians, Armenians and Greeks by the Ottoman Turkish Empire as genocide. The ...

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Did the fall of Saddam Hussein and the violent birth of Iraqi democracy really empower Iran?
That conventional wisdom might have been true in the shorter term during the chaotic Iraqi insurrection, but it was never an accurate assessment over the longe...

Washington -- International Christian Concern (ICC) has learned that a Pakistani Muslim man allegedly burned a Christian teenage girl to death in Lahore, Pakistan.

The recent murder of eight Christians in Mosul, Iraq, a few weeks before the country's March 7 parliamentary elections has prompted Pope Benedict XVI, Iraqi bishops and a local Syriac Catholic priest to call for international solidarity on behalf of pe...

KIRKUK, Iraq -- Early election results appear to reflect a hardening of divisions between Kurds, Arabs and Turkmens in northern Iraq, potentially complicating efforts by the United States and the United Nations to forge a compromise over the oil-rich c...

The political grouping headed by Iraq's prime minister, Nouri al-Maliki, today began preparing negotiations for a new coalition government after edging ahead in the latest counts of Sunday's general election.

As post-election maneuvering gets underway in Iraq, commentators have focused on the battle for the Prime Minister's office.
The discussion circles around which electoral coalition will be tasked with forming the next government, Prime Minister Nouri a...

(Bloomberg) -- Former Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi complained about possible vote-tampering as early results from Iraq's parliamentary election showed rival blocs leading in areas of their core sectarian support.

About 30% of ballots submitted by Iraqi-Americans are being rejected in Arbil, Iraq's headquarters for the Out-of-Country Voting (OCV) program. The U.S.

A diplomatic row is brewing between Sweden and Turkey after Sweden's parliament yesterday voted to describe the 1915 killing of Armenians, Assyrians, Greeks and Syrians by Turkey as genocide.

BAGHDAD (RFE/RL) -- Hundreds of displaced Christians in northern Iraq were unable to vote in the parliamentary elections because they were unregistered, RFE/RL's Radio Free Iraq (RFI) reports.

Seyfo CenterThe Swedish parliament is the first in the world to acknowledge the Turkish genocide of Assyrians. The historical decision was taken after a long debate in the parliament on Thursday. It was an extremely narrow win as 131 parliamentarians v...