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• Attacks in Mosul force Christians to flee
Kashmoula said provincial security officials were meeting with Christian leaders to protect the community "from the terrorists, the killers." Bashir Azoz, a 45-year-old carpenter, said he fled his home Saturday after gunmen warned a neighbor the day ...
• Official: 3,000 Christians flee Iraq's Mosul
The killings come as Christian leaders are lobbying parliament to pass a law setting aside a number of seats for minorities, such as Christians, in upcoming provincial elections, fearing they could be further marginalized in the predominantly Muslim ...
• Iraqi women fear going public as candidates
BAGHDAD - The 38-year-old teacher wanted to participate in Iraq's first provincial elections in four years — until she realized that a new law would require the ballot to list her name, not just her party. Even as violence has declined, lingering ...
• Bomber kills 15 at Pakistani lawmaker's home
On Sunday, suspected militants fired rockets near the home of the top provincial official in northwestern Pakistan. No one was injured in the strikes in Mardan that apparently targeted North West Frontier Province's chief minister, Amir Haider Khan ...
• Military: Suicide bomber kills 27 in Sri Lanka
In August the retired officer won a seat in the north-central provincial assembly. Critical of campaign against rebels The United National Party, meanwhile, accused the government of ignoring repeated requests for a stronger security detail for Perera ...