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This Christmas, there will be fewer Christians celebrating in their homes in the Middle East than ever before. Before Obama, Nineveh Plains hosted 90,000 Christians. Today, it's under 40,000. Nineveh is one of the first cities mentioned in the Bible. The Nineveh Plains are (BBC) -- The Trump administration says US troops are being withdrawn from Syria, after the president said the Islamic State (IS) group had been defeated. The Pentagon said it was transitioning to the next phase of the campaign but did not give details. Some 2,000 troops have helped rid much of north-eastern Syria of IS, but pockets of fighters remain. IN AN URGENT appeal, Christian leaders on Iraq's Nineveh Plains called on the international community to do more to help resettle thousands of Christian families who had fled ISIS--and ensure the survival of Christianity in Iraq, which is by no means certain. Please do not be a silent bystander to our drama. We call on you to support the Christians of Iraq.. The emergence of slums in the land of Mesopotamia is but one of the manifestations of the disastrous consequences of occupation and the bottomless corruption of the successive administrations in Iraq. It joins phenomena such as hunger, unemployment and poverty to depict a depressing picture of what has befallen this venerable country. In March of 2017, with the battle for control of Mosul, Iraq's second largest city, raging just miles away, I was driven into the town of Karamles, recently liberated from ISIS control. Together with a journalist friend, the parish priest of the town and an American adviser to the Catholic Archdiocese of Erbil, we walked among the ruined buildings surveying the results of ISIS occupation, which.. The Arab League has strongly condemned Turkey's repeated airstrikes against the purported positions of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) militant group in Iraq's northern semi-autonomous Kurdistan region, stressing that such actions are in violation of the Iraqi state's