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Iraqi Christians Return to Their Rebuilt Town Amid Fragile Ceasefire Between Kurds, Iraqi Army

Catholic leaders are crediting that U.S. intervention for the survival of the town and its Christian community


-- Washington Free Beacon

Iraqi Christians have started flowing back into a town in Northern Iraq over the last several days amid a fragile ceasefire between the Kurds and Iraqi army. After roughly 2,000 Assyrian-Chaldean Christian families fled the recently rebuilt town of Teleskof, strategically located in the Nineveh Plains, on Tuesday, the U.S. government stepped in to exert pressure on both the Iraqi government and the Kurds to stand down.-- More...

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