AINA News

•	Assyrian Umbrella Organization Asks UN to Support Assyrians in North Iraq
•	Assyrian Leader Raises Concern At UN Human Rights Council
•	Second Assyrian Mayor Illegally Removed By Kurdish Authorities
•	Assyrians in North Iraq Reject Second Mayor Appointed By Kurds
•	Yazidis Proclaim the Establishment of a Provisional Government
•	Dutch Parliament Members Express Concern About Kurds Marginalizing Assyrians
•	Assyrian Man Kidnapped, Killed in Syria
•	Assyrians Protest Removal of Mayor By Kurdish Government
•	Swedish EU Parliamentarian Accuses Kurds of Treason Against Assyrians
•	Assyrian Organizations Condemn Turkey's Seizure of Assyrian Properties
•	Assyrian Football Teams in Sweden Tell of a Changing Community
•	Turkey Says it Cancelled Decision to Seize Assyrian Churches and Monasteries
•	Assyrian Confederation of Europe Rejects Brussels Conference
•	Assyrian Church of the East to Boycott EU Conference on Future of Nineveh Plains
•	EU Conference on Nineveh Plains Favors Kurds, Marginalizes Assyrians
•	Assyrian Groups to Boycott EU Conference on Future of Nineveh Plains
•	3 Year-old Assyrian Girl Kidnapped By ISIS Reunited With Her Mother
•	Assyrian Leader Voices Concern At EU-parliament Conference on Future of Nineveh Plain
•	New Bar Association to Serve Assyrian-Americans Elects Officers
•	Assyrian Flag Acknowledged By Australian City Council
•	New Book About the Assyrian Genocide Published
•	Congresswoman Eshoo Faces Heavy Criticism for Omitting Assyrians and Greeks in Genocide Statement
•	Assyrians, Armenians, Greeks Commemorate Genocide in Los Angeles
•	Assyrian, Armenian, Greek Genocide Commemoration Held in Glendale, California
•	New Book on Assyrian, Greek, Armenian Genocide Published
•	Syriac Orthodox Patriarch Speaks on the Future of Christians in the Middle East
•	Assyrian Genocide Documentary to Be Aired in Cyprus
•	Trump's Immigration Order and Christianity
•	Turkey Removed Assyrian Sculpture From Public Square
•	Persecution and Civil War: The Life of Syria's Christians
•	Understanding the Christian Crisis in the Middle East
•	Legendary Assyrian American's Works Published
•	The Winds of Change Are Blowing in Europe
•	Kurdish Authorities Preventing Assyrian Soldiers From Returning to Their Posts
•	New Book on Assyrian Genocide Published
•	First Assyrian Elected to Local Government in Victoria, Australia
•	Iraq's Assyrians Under Fire
•	In Continuing Purge, Turkey Removes Only Assyrian Mayor
•	Assyrian Organization Congratulates Trump, Calls Attention to ISIS Genocide
•	Battle of Mosul is Historic, Says Assyrian MP in Iran
•	Erdoğan's Gambit for Mosul
•	Assyrians in Iraq to Unify Their Militias
•	Kurdish Forces in Syria Arrest Assyrian, Kurdish Parents in School
•	Kurdish Court Rules Against Assyrian Man in Squatting Case
•	Assyrian Confederation of Europe Elects President
•	The Genocide of Assyrians and Yazidis and the Next American President
•	Dutch Parliament Holds Hearing on Assyrians in Iraq
•	Assyrian Organizations Submit Report on Syria to UN
•	Assyrian Women's Conference Issues Appeal for Aid
•	Is Obama Fast-tracking Mosul Offensive to Save His Legacy?
•	Assyrians in Europe to Gather for Inaugural Convention
•	Why France? It's in the Math
•	Syriac Orthodox Patriarch Meets German President
•	Assyrian-Swedish Scholar Selected to Pro Futura Scientia Fellowship Program
•	Syriac Orthodox Patriarch Issues Statement After Assassination Attempt
•	European Parliament Member Sends Letter on Assyrian Rights to Kurdish Government
•	Assyrian Group Sues Turkish-Kuwaiti Bank for Funding Terrorism
•	Assyrian Genocide Monument Unveiled in Qamishli, Syria
•	Assyrian Genocide Monument Unveiled in Switzerland
•	Suicide Bomber Targets Assyrian Event in Syria, 3 Killed

Summaries

Assyrian Umbrella Organization Asks UN to Support Assyrians in North Iraq

(AINA) -- The Assyrian Universal Alliance, an umbrella organization for Assyrians worldwide, has sent a letter to the Secretary General of the United Nations, Mr.

Assyrian Leader Raises Concern At UN Human Rights Council

Geneva (AINA) -- In an address to the United Nations in Geneva on Thursday, Attiya Gamri, president of the Assyrian Confederation of Europe, voiced concerns on the world's lack of support for the Assyrians in Iraq and Syria.

Second Assyrian Mayor Illegally Removed By Kurdish Authorities

Tel Kepe, North Iraq (AINA) -- The mayor of Tel Kepe, Basim Bello, was removed from his office on August 3 by the Nineveh Provincial Council. Mr. Bello is the second Assyrian mayor in three weeks to be illegally removed from his office by the Kurdish authorities.

Assyrians in North Iraq Reject Second Mayor Appointed By Kurds

Alqosh, North Iraq (AINA) -- The residents of Alqosh, an Assyrian town in north Iraq, have again rejected the new mayor appointed by the Nineveh Province Council, an entity controlled by the Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) and the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP).

Yazidis Proclaim the Establishment of a Provisional Government

(AINA) -- Baba Sheikh Khurto Hajji Ismail, the head of the Supreme Spiritual Council of Ezidikhan, has declared the establishment of a provisional Yazidi government. In a proclamation published on July 25, he calls for Yazidis who were displaced by the ISIS genocide to return to their homelands.

Dutch Parliament Members Express Concern About Kurds Marginalizing Assyrians

The Hague (AINA) -- The Assyrian Federation of the Netherlands (AFN) has briefed members of of the Dutch Parliament regarding the situation in Assyrian town of Alqosh, North Iraq.