Isis in Iraq: Assyrian Christian militia keep well-armed militants at bay - but they are ...

Edit The Independent 22 Feb 2015
The 1,500 Assyrian Christians who once lived in Bakufa fled when Isis fighters from Mosul 18 miles to the south captured and later lost the village during their offensive last August ... At one end of the large room where Sergon and his men are sitting with their ageing weaponry, there is a large Assyrian flag. “Once, we Assyrians were a great empire,” ......

Gang busters! Gun seizure in 2012 led to downfall of Assyrian criminal organisation DLASTHR (The ...

Edit The Australian 20 May 2014
Soon after the guns were found and two gang members arrested in early 2012 a secret Strike force aimed at the heart of the Assyrian crime gangs in the area was set up ... Police with weapons seized by Strike Force Face from Assyrian crime gangs ... They were also creating the wrong perception of the large Assyrian community here.’’ ... Many had the Assyrian flag tattoos as well....
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