Iraqi Assyrian Bishop Urges US Aid for Frontline Community

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Iraqi Assyrian Bishop Urges US Aid for Frontline Community
By Dave Clark
Posted 2017-11-28 04:27 GMT

(AFP) -- With the Islamic State group routed at last, one of the oldest Christian communities in the Middle East has a chance to reoccupy its ancestral towns.

But the Chaldean and Syriac people of the Nineveh plain in Iraq need support to rebuild to their homes and are still anxious that fighting will return.

Bashar Warda, the Chaldean Archbishop of Arbil, hopes President Donald Trump's administration will redirect US aid to his persecuted peopl

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