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BREAKING | On Sunday evening, 24 January 2016, the formerly predominantly Aramean Christian city of Qamishli in northeast Syria has been attacked for the third time in less than a month time. Café Star in the largely Christian quarter of the city was bombed, resulting in the death of at least three Aramean young men and about 10 persons injured.

This bomb attack comes right after two other attacks on the Aramean Christians in the city. On 30 December 2015, still unknown terrorists killed 13 Christians (9 Arameans, 4 Armenians) in a series of three bomb attacks. On 11 January 2015, the Aramean Gaby Henry Daoud was brutally shot in the back of his head by Kurdish YPG-fighters, while he was guarding the checkpoint in al-Wusta that was set up by the Aramean self-defense unit called Sootoro after the earlier attacks.

Nobody has claimed responsibility for this latest bomb attack yet. To understand the bigger picture of the last mentioned attack, and possibly of the first and third attacks, see the WCA’s earlier report: http://wca-ngo.org/our-work/238-files/syria-file/547-ongoing-kurdish-terror-attacks-against-aramean-christians-in-syria.

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