Assyrian International News AgencyNews and Analysis of Assyrian and Assyrian Related Issues Worldwide.Syrian President to Visit Russia on Wednesday- August 19, 2008 MOSCOW (AFP) -- Syrian President Bashar al-Assad will visit Russia on Wednesday at the invitation of his Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev, the Kremlin said Tuesday.http://www.aina.org/news/20080819125918.htm Iraq's Government Disarming Sunni Arab Fighters- August 19, 2008 BAGHDAD (AP) -- The Shiite-led government is cracking down on U.S.-backed Sunni Arab fighters in one of Iraq's most turbulent regions, arresting some leaders, disarming dozens of men and banning them from manning checkpoints except alongside official security forces.http://www.aina.org/news/20080819011706.htm Torture Chamber, Bodies Found At Mosque in Iraq- August 19, 2008 BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- "There are the bloodstains on the wall, and here it is dried on the floor," says Abu Muhanad as he walks through a torture chamber in a Baghdad mosque where more than two dozen bodies have been found.http://www.aina.org/news/20080819142200.htm In Kirkuk Christian and Muslim Leaders Pray for Peace in the Country- August 19, 2008 Kirkuk (AsiaNews) -- In the last two days attacks by suicide bombers and car bombs have sown death and destruction among the civilian population and targeted government and other political leaders.http://www.aina.org/news/20080819130338.htm Dilemma of the Lebanese Detainees in Syrian Jails- August 19, 2008 Like parrots, the Syrian Baathist regime's officials keep rhetorically insisting that there are no arbitrarily Lebanese detainees incarcerated in their notorious and Nazi like jails.http://www.aina.org/news/20080819130058.htm 'Finally, Farewell To Pakistan'- August 19, 2008 "Finally, farewell to Pakistan." So were the final words of Pervez Musharraf in his address to the Pakistani people as he ultimately chose to resign rather than face impeachment before an unfriendly Pakistani parliament.http://www.aina.org/news/20080819131121.htm Kurdish Control of Kirkuk Creates a Powder Keg in Iraq- August 19, 2008 KIRKUK, Iraq -- The phone rang, and it was answered by a Kurdish security commander, Hallo Najat, sitting in his office in this deeply divided city. On the line, he said, was a United Nations official wanting to know whether it was true that the Kurdish militia, the pesh merga, had left its bases in northern Iraq and was occupying Kirkuk.http://www.aina.org/news/20080819011433.htm Canada's Human Rights Gestapo- August 19, 2008 Perhaps you've heard about the Ezra Levant affair. Ezra Levant was the publisher of the now defunct Canadian magazine Western Standard, which was a politically-oriented news magazine, analogous to the National Review.http://www.aina.org/news/20080819131437.htm Egyptian Law Ends ChristianMuslim Organ Donation- August 19, 2008 The Egyptian Medical Association, through its spokesman on August 18, denied that a bill in the Egyptian parliament would discriminate between Christians and Muslims by prohibiting organ transplants between members of the two faiths.http://www.aina.org/news/20080819130252.htm The Coptic Conundrum- August 18, 2008 Why are Egypt's Coptic Christians so apathetic about their persecutionThe other night flipping through Arabic satellite stations, I came across a Coptic man who was lividly discussing the "Coptic question.http://www.aina.org/news/20080818151531.htm |