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2008 attacks on Christians
LocationMosul, Iraq
DateOctober 2008 – January 2009
TargetChristians
Attack type
Killings, intimidation
Deaths> 40[1]

2008 attacks on Christians in Mosul was a series of attacks which targeted Iraqi Christians in Mosul, Iraq. The Christians of Mosul, who were already targeted during the Iraq War, left the city en masse heading to Assyrian villages in Nineveh Plains and Iraqi Kurdistan. Both Sunni extremists, and Kurdish Peshmerga were blamed for the attacks.

  1. ^ سبعة ضحايا بانفجار استهدف كنيسة "مار توما " وسط الموصل. al-Mada (in Arabic). 12 December 2009. Archived from the original on 25 April 2012. Retrieved 26 October 2011.

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