Fadya, a remarkable refugee from Baghdad, Iraq, arrived in the U.S. in 2016 as a single mom, seeking growth and opportunity after the tragic loss of her husband. With the support of the CCF, Fadya found a second home. She received help with ESL classes, applying for citizenship, and much more.
Read MoreThe Yazidi (or Yezidi) are a Kurmanji-speaking minority group who are indigenous to northern Iraq, Kurdistan, and a geographical region in Western Asia. This includes parts of Iraq, Syria, Turkey, and Iran. Most Yazidis remaining in the Middle East today live in Iraq, primarily in the governorate of Nineveh and Duhok.
Read MoreThe motorcade stretched a mile long down Walnut Lake Road to Shenandoah Country Club (SCC) on Thursday, April 18. Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia’ Al Sudani was in town to speak with the Iraqi American community and its leaders, having first traveled to Houston to speak with Iraqi immigrants there and visiting the Islamic Institute in Dearborn before coming to West Bloomfield.
Read MorePrime Minister Mohammed Shia Al-Sudani met at dawn on Friday (Baghdad time) with a number of members of the Iraqi community, who met at the Iraqi Chaldean Center in Detroit, Michigan, USA.
Read MoreBeirut (AP) Feb. 3 — British forces on Saturday joined their American allies in new attacks against militia in Yemen. The U.S. military earlier launched strikes on dozens of sites manned by Iran-backed fighters in western Iraq and eastern Syria in retaliation for a drone strike in Jordan in late January that killed three U.S. service members and wounded dozens.
Read MoreIraq recalled its ambassador from Tehran for consultations and summoned Iran’s chargé d’affaires in Baghdad on Tuesday in protest over Iranian strikes on northern Iraq that killed several civilians overnight, the Iraqi Foreign Ministry said. The Iranian attack was “a blatant violation” of Iraq’s sovereignty and “strongly contradicts the principles of good neighborliness and international law, and threatens the security of the region,” the ministry said in a statement.
Read MoreIf you have ever attended a wedding in Baghdad, chances are you were served a particular cake which has been popular at Chaldean weddings since at least the 1950s.
Read MoreThe ongoing conflict in the Middle East suffered an escalation recently as Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) launched ballistic missiles targeting a residential area of Erbil, Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI). The regional security council reports that at least four perished and six were injured in the eight blasts that rocked the area.
Read MoreMy name is May Antone, and I am a practicing internist physician in Southfield, Michigan. I finished medical school in Baghdad, Iraq in 1993 and immigrated to the U.S. in 1995 where I did my residency. I have not returned to Iraq for over 25 years.
Read MoreAbout 99 percent of the Christian communities in the Kurdistan Region live in Erbil and Duhok provinces, said Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) minister Ano Jawhar. Jawhar, the KRG Minister of Communication and Transport, made the remarks during a presser held at a meeting of various members of the ethnic and religious communities to discuss the ongoing legal challenges by the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) to the quota seats of ethno-religious components.
Read MoreSeptember 2023 marked a profound pilgrimage for me – a journey back to the cradle of my heritage, the Nineveh Plain in Iraq; particularly to Tel Keppe, the village where my family, the Karana family, has its roots in the Shangu district. This trip was a reconnection with the land that has shaped the identity of our people for generations.
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