Iraq - Displaced Christians 2016
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Members of the Nineveh Plain Protection Units training at their base near Alqosh, Iraq, on April 12, 2016. The Assyrian militia group was formed by Christians displaced by ISIS from Qaraqosh and other towns in the Nineveh Plain in 2014. Their goal is to take back their homeland and make it a semi-autonomous province within Iraq.
Paul Jeffrey