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IRAQ - New threats of war on the Nineveh Plain. Christians still forced to flee
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Telkaif (Agenzia Fides) - In the late evening of Tuesday, 24 October, the Christians of Telkaif, an Iraqi town located in the Nineveh Plain, abandoned their homes and moved to Qosh and other neighboring villages. Peshmerga fighters from neighboring Kurdistan stationed in the village started engaging in a battle with forces from the Iraqi central government. Ankawa.com news agency reported that on the same day on Tuesday some mortar-shells had already fallen on the town of Telkaif, provoking according to local sources the death of two people. A similar exodus also involved the inhabitants of the nearby town of Baqofah.read more
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25.10.2017