Iraqi Christians take up arms to regain lost land - Al-Monitor: The Middle Eastʼs leading independent news source since 2012

Saad Salloum

Saad Salloum

Aug 19, 2015

An Iraqi Christian fighter, a member of Babylon Christian Battalion, stands guard near the site of car bomb attack in Baghdad, May 5, 2015. REUTERS/Stringer
- RTX1BOU9 — An Iraqi Christian member of the Babylon Brigades stands guard near the site of a car bomb attack in Baghdad, May 5, 2015. — REUTERS

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Louis Raphael I Sako of Iraq poses as he attends the courtesy visit of relatives following a consistory for the creation of new cardinals in the Apostolic Palace at St Peter's Basilica in the Vatican on June 28, 2018.

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Iraqi Christian politicians denounce church's intervention in politics

Saad Salloum

TOPSHOT - Iraqi Christians attend a mass at the Church of the Immaculate Conception on July 24, 2017 in the predominantly Christian Iraqi town of Qaraqosh (also known as Hamdaniya), some 30 kilometres from Mosul.
Cardinal Philippe Barbarin, who was split between "sadness" and "hope", attended a mass for the "renaissance" in Qaraqosh, which housed one of the largest Christian communities in Iraq before its capture by the Islamic State group . / AFP PHOTO / SAFIN HAMED / The erroneous date appearing in the

Armed disputes reveal Iraqi Christians' discord

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Adam Lucente

In New York City, reporting on regional news, militancy, climate change