Alqosh is a town in the Nineveh Plains of northern Iraq,a sub-district of the Tel Kaif District situated 45 km north of the city of Mosul.
The Assyrian Democratic Movement,popularly known as Zowaa,is an Assyrian political party situated in Iraq,and one of the main Assyrian parties within the Iraqi parliament. The Assyrian Democratic Movement states its aims are to establish equal citizenship rights with the rest of the Iraqi people without discrimination on the basis of nationality,belief,religious affiliation,culture,language and other characteristics of the native Chaldo-Assyrian Syriac people of Iraq,to acknowledge the past massacres committed against them and to ensure they are never repeated again.
Ankawa is a suburb of Erbil in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. It is located 8 kilometres (5 mi) northwest of downtown Erbil. The suburb is predominantly populated by Christian Assyrians,most of whom adhere to the Chaldean Catholic Church.
Iraqi Assyrians are an ethnic and linguistic minority group,indigenous to Upper Mesopotamia. They are defined as Assyrians residing in the country of Iraq,or members of the Assyrian diaspora who are of Iraqi-Assyrian heritage. They share a common history and ethnic identity,rooted in shared linguistic,cultural and religious traditions,with Assyrians in Iran,Turkey and Syria,as well as with the Assyrian diaspora elsewhere. A significant number have emigrated to the United States,notably to the Detroit and Chicago;a sizeable community is also found in Sydney,Australia.
The Assyrian homeland,Assyria,refers to the homeland of the Assyrian people within which Assyrian civilisation developed,located in their indigenous Upper Mesopotamia. The territory that forms the Assyrian homeland is,similarly to the rest of Mesopotamia,currently divided between present-day Iraq,Turkey,Iran and Syria. In Iran,the Urmia Plain forms a thin margin of the ancestral Assyrian homeland in the north-west,and the only section of the Assyrian homeland beyond the Mesopotamian region. The majority of Assyrians in Iran currently reside in the capital city,Tehran.
Nineveh Plains is a region in Nineveh Governorate in Iraq,to the north and east of the city Mosul. Control over the region is contested between Iraqi security forces,KRG security forces,Assyrian security forces,Babylon Brigade and the Shabak Militia.
The Christians of Iraq are considered to be one of the oldest continuous Christian communities in the world.
Chaldean Catholics,also known as Chaldeans,Chaldo-Assyrians or Assyro-Chaldeans,are an ethnoreligious group of Assyrians who follow the Chaldean Catholic Church,which originates from the historic Church of the East.
Assyrian nationalism is a movement of the Assyrian people that advocates for independence or autonomy within the regions they inhabit in northern Iraq,northeastern Syria,northwestern Iran,and southeastern Turkey.
Mangesh is a village and sub-district in Dohuk Governorate in Kurdistan Region,Iraq. It is located in the Dohuk District.
Assyrian politics in Iraq have been taking many different turns since the US invasion of the country in 2003. Today,there are many different Assyrian political parties in Iraq. The main Assyrian party that came out from the 2005 elections was the Assyrian Democratic Movement. However,Sarkis Aghajan began to challenge its power beginning in 2006 with the opening of Ishtar TV and the KDP-affiliated Chaldean Syriac Assyrian Popular Council.
Tel Keppe is a town in northern Iraq. It is located in the Nineveh Governorate,less than 8 mi (13 km) northeast of Mosul.
Since the early 20th century several proposals have been made for the establishment of an autonomous area or an independent state for the Syriac-speaking modern Assyrians in northern Iraq.
An independence referendum for the Kurdistan Region of Iraq was held on 25 September 2017,with preliminary results showing approximately 92.73 percent of votes cast in favour of independence. Despite reporting that the independence referendum would be non-binding,the autonomous Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) characterised it as binding,although they claimed that an affirmative result would trigger the start of state building and negotiations with Iraq rather than an immediate declaration of independence of Kurdistan. The referendum's legality was rejected by the federal government of Iraq and the Federal Supreme Court.
The Sons of Mesopotamia,also known as Abnaa Al-Nahrain and Bnay Nahrain,was an ethnic Assyrian political party based in northern Iraq. It was founded in 2013,and was headquartered in Erbil,Iraq. Established to further the political objectives of the Assyrian people in Iraq,the party won one seat in the 2013 Kurdistan Region parliamentary election.
The Nineveh Plain Forces or NPF was a military organization that was formed on 6 January 2015 by the indigenous Christian Assyrian people in Iraq,in cooperation with Peshmerga,to defend against Islamic State. The Nineveh Plains is a region at the heart of the Assyrian homeland. The militia is affiliated with the Bet-Nahrain Democratic Party and the Beth Nahrain Patriotic Union (HBA),the latter being part of the secular Dawronoye movement. It participated in the Battle of Mosul (2016–2017).
Lara Yussif Zara is an Assyrian politician who is currently serving as the mayor of Alqosh in the Nineveh Governorate of Iraq. A member of the Kurdistan Democratic Party,Zara was appointed to the mayorship in July 2017 by the KDP-led Nineveh Provincial Council after the previous mayor had charges of corruption by the Provincial Council. She is both the first female mayor of Alqosh and the first woman to serve as mayor of any city in Iraq.
Ano Jawhar Abdulmaseeh Abdoka,or Ano Abdoka is an Assyrian politician who serves as the Minister of Transportations and Communications of the autonomous Kurdistan Region of Iraq since July 2019. Abdoka leads the Shlama Trend for Christian Affairs in the Kurdish region,and he previously led the local committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party in Ankawa. He is currently the only Assyrian and Christian member of the Kurdish Government's cabinet.
The Athra Alliance is a political alliance of five political parties in Iraq that represent the Assyrian people. The alliance comprises these five parties:
Rayan Salem Sadiq Al-Kildani or Rayan al-Kildani is an ethnic Assyrian politician from Iraq. He is currently serving as the general secretary of the Babylon Movement,as well as its military component,the Babylon Brigade. He rose to power after founding the party in 2014,which had initially been involved in defending the Nineveh Plains from ISIS when they were at their most active.
