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Assyrian Christians crowdfund an army to reclaim homeland from ISIL
Assyrian Christians crowdfund an army to reclaim homeland from ISIL
At a covert training camp just north of Mosul, 10 miles from the front lines with the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant, the first wave of Assyrian Christian volunteers for the Nineveh Protection Unit have just completed boot camp. Funded in part by an Assyrian-American campaign and trained by a handful of freelance U.S. military veterans, about 500 men are set to deploy next week as part of an unorthodox — and unproven — project.
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