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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
ISIS 2015 attack on Syria’s Khabur Assyrians casts long shadow
2023-02-28
[NPASyria] February 23 marked the eighth anniversary of Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
 (ISIS) 2015 attack against the Assyrian Christians of Tel Tamr, west of the city of Hasakah, in northeast Syrian.

Prior to the Syrian War, the town of Tel Tamr, Hasakah and the Khabur villages were home to around 17.000 Assyrians. Today, Tel Tamr and the surrounding Khabur villages are home to less than 1,500 Assyrian.
In the early morning hours, ISIS fighters descended from Mount Abdul’aziz (Kurdish: Kezwan) on the Assyrian villages located on the southern banks of the Khabur River. The attack came mere months after ISIS genocide against the Kurdish-speaking Yazidi ethno-religious community in Sinjar (Shengal), northern Iraq.
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