Nineveh Plains (Classical Syriac: ܦܩܥܬܐ ܕܢܝܢܘܐ, romanized: Pqaʿtā ḏ-Nīnwē, Modern Syriac: ܕܫܬܐ ܕܢܝܢܘܐ, romanized: Daštā d-Ninwe; Arabic: سهل نينوى, romanized: Sahl...

the Nineveh Plains Protection Units List of armed groups in the Iraqi Civil War Assyrian Democratic Movement Nineveh Plain Forces Nineveh Plains Security...

in cooperation with Peshmerga, to defend against Islamic State. The Nineveh Plains is a region at the heart of the Assyrian homeland. The militia is affiliated...

Assyrian homeland within the Nineveh Province (mostly in the Nineveh Plains region) for the Assyrian population. 2005 Nineveh governorate election Assyrian...

Assyrian communities, towns and villages in the Assyrian homeland and Nineveh Plains. Some foreign Christian fighters from the Western world have also joined...

2017 relating to the future of the Nineveh Plains. The position paper called for the creation of a Nineveh Plains province that is self-governed by the...

Nineveh. The context of Nineveh was as one of many centers within the regional development of Upper Mesopotamia. This area is defined as the plains which...

of Ninawa Governorate Tuz Khurmatu, from part of Saladin Governorate Nineveh Plains from the Ninawa Governorate. Halabja from Sulaymaniah Governorate In...

of Al-Hasakah in Syria by 2015, and from the Nineveh Plains in Iraq by 2017. In 2014, the Nineveh Plain Protection Units was formed and many Assyrians...

world's land area. Plains in many areas are important for agriculture. There are various types of plains and biomes on them. A plain or flatland is a flat...

declared that Nineveh Plains would become a new province, which would serve as a safe haven for Assyrians. After the liberation of the Nineveh Plain from ISIL...

The Nineveh Plains offensive was a battle in which the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) mounted a multi-front attack against Peshmerga forces...

the party in 2014, which had initially been involved in defending the Nineveh Plains from ISIS when they were at their most active. Al-Kildani has received...

They speak Shabaki and live in a religious community (ta'ifa) in the Nineveh Plains. The ancestors of Shabaks were followers of the Safaviyya order, which...

ISIS takeover of the Nineveh Plains in 2014 after KRG security forces forcibly disarmed local populations in the Nineveh Plains, asserting a full monopoly...

Mosul and is widely spoken in the region. Together with the nearby Nineveh Plains, Mosul is one of the historical centers of the Assyrian people. Mosul...

grip on the Nineveh Plains area and to facilitate its incorporation into the Kurdistan Region, Kurdish authorities in the Nineveh Plains have embarked...

live in Iraq and are particularly concentrated in the Nineveh Plains and Sinjar areas in the Nineveh Governorate in northern Iraq. The following settlements...

took over and expelled a massive portion of the population from the Nineveh Plains in Northern Iraq. The Assyrian Aid Society of America has requested...

founded in 2014, initially as a militia group in order to defend the Nineveh Plains from the onset of ISIS. His movement had been the only Christian component...

which is a large region stretching from the plain of Urmia in northwestern Iran through to the Nineveh Plains, Erbil, Kirkuk and Duhok regions in northern...

Retrieved 6 March 2015. "Inside the Christian Militias Defending the Nineveh Plains". Archived from the original on 15 September 2016. Retrieved 24 December...

never prohibited by Iraqi law. In 2014, the Peshmerga withdrew from the Nineveh Plains which was said by the locals as being a contributing factor of the quick...

million before 2003. In 2014, the Chaldean and Syriac population of the Nineveh Plains in northern Iraq was scattered to Dohuk, Erbil and Jordan due to ISIS...

(3 mi) south of the village of Selamiyah (Arabic: السلامية), in the Nineveh Plains in Upper Mesopotamia. It was a major Assyrian city between approximately...

ألقوش, alternatively spelled Alkosh, Alqoš, or Alqush) is a town in the Nineveh Plains of northern Iraq, a sub-district of the Tel Kaif District situated 45 km...

for Iraq are: "Establishment of a Nineveh Plain Province for minoritized communities Restoration of the Nineveh Plain after IS Development of Assyrian-led...

achieve administrative self-government or outright autonomy for the Nineveh Plains, a northern Iraqi region with high concentration of Christian population...

behaviour against non-Kurdish minorities. Many Assyrians and Yazidis in the Nineveh Plains claim "that the KRG confiscated their property without compensation...

"Christian Minorities and the Struggle for Nineveh: The Assyrian Democratic Movement and the Nineveh Plains Protection Units" p. 81 Girling, The Chaldean...