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TEL TAMR, Syria — On Thursday, the 8th anniversary of the 2015 Khabur Resistance against the Islamic State (ISIS) attack on the Syriac–Assyrian villages of the Khabur River Valley, the Coordination and Consultation Committee of Syriac (Aramean–Assyrian–Chaldean) political parties and organizations held a commemorative event under the slogan “From Sayfo…

TEL TAL, North and East Syria — On the 8th anniversary of the Khabur resistance against the Islamic State (ISIS) in 2015, the media office of the Khabur Guards Council conducted an interview with Elias Antar, an elderly Syriac–Assyrian resident of Tel Tal village in the Khabur River Valley, North…

NORTH AND EAST SYRIA — On the 8th anniversary of the heroic resistance against the Islamic State (ISIS) in the Khabur River Valley in North and East Syria, the Syriac Military Council (Mawtbo Fulhoyo Suryoyo, MFS) released a statement commemorating the sacrifice of the martyrs who gave their lives in…

TEL TAMR, Syria — In February 2015, the Islamic State (ISIS) terrorist organization attacked the Syriac–Assyrian villages and towns of the Khabur River Valley in North and East Syria. Thousands of civilians were displaced and nearly 250 Assyrians from dozens of families were kidnapped.  On the 8th anniversary of the…

BETH NAHRIN (MESOPOTAMIA) — “The will of the Khabur Resistance is the path to our national salvation.” That is how the Bethnahrin National Council (Mawtbo Umthoyo d’Bethnahrin-MUB) begins its statement on the national commemoration of the martyrs of the Khabur Resistance. Annually on 23 February, MUB commemorates the martyrs who…

NORTH AND EAST SYRIA — The Syriac Military Council (Mawtbo Fulḥoyo Suryoyo, MFS) today celebrated the eighth anniversary of the martyrdom of its first martyr, Martyr Athro. Tamer Bahdi, nome de guerre “Athro” or “homeland”, was killed against terror organization Islamic State in the battle over the Syriac (Aramean-Assyrian-Chaldean) villages…

The German parliament recognized the massacres of Yezidis by the Islamic State as genocide on 19 January 2023. Below is the 2020 article by WELT correspondent Alfred Hackensberger on German ISIS fighters and their defenseless victims. Through Hackenberger’s in-depth field research in Syria and Iraq, German prosecutors were able to…

KHABUR, North and East Syria ꟷ The Syriac Military Council is a self-defense force established on January 8, 2013, in Syria to defend Syriacs (Arameans-Chaldeans-Assyrians) in the escalating Syrian civil war. The Syriac Military Council (Mawtbo Fulhoyo Suryoyo, MFS) grew to become a co-founder of the Syrian Democratic Forces, a…

TEL TAMR, Syria — A joint delegation of the Syriac Union Party (SUP), the Assyrian Democratic Organization (ADO), and the Assyrian Democratic Party (ADP) visited the villages of the Khabur River Valley on Tuesday to discuss the increasing number of displaced people setting in traditionally Syriac (Aramean–Assyrian–Chaldean) areas. During their…

This article was originally published in German by WELT on December 3, 2022. The original can be found here. By Alfred Hackensberger WELT correspondent for war and crisis areas “I’d rather you take a gun and put a bullet through my head.” Emre S. paused for a moment. His dark eyes petrified.…