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Trump Must Listen To His Assyrian Supporters in Iraq
By Andrew Doran
http://www.newsweek.com
Posted 2017-08-26 17:20 GMT

A picture taken on April 14, 2017, shows the cross of the church of Mart Shmoni in Arbil, the capital of the autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq, during a Good Friday mass. ( Safin Hamed/AFP/Getty )

"We believe in God first, Trump second," says a Christian man in Ainkawa, Erbil, in the Kurdish region of northern Iraq. "You hear it said often here."

Iraq's Christians in 2003 numbered more than a million--today, they are less than a quarter million. There is a sense of desperation. With the defeat of the Islamic State militant group (ISIS), thousands have begun to return to their homes on the Nineveh Plain, but many more have left Iraq.

Those who remain face significant challenges. "We are caught between Arab and Kurd, between Sunni and Shia, between Turkey and Iran," he adds. They now look to America--to Pre

"Without a province, it will be hard for us to survive," the Christian adds.

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