of demographic change and acts of forced assimilation were carried out against them, and more than 200 villages were destroyed, its residents displaced, tens of churches, whose history was traceable to the first century, were demolished and destroyed in North Iraq under security and military pretenses, land was confiscated without compensation and policies of Arabization in villages in the Nineveh plains were applied. The infamous Operation Al-Anfal also removed hundreds of Christians and destroyed more than 120 Christian villages. After the year 2003, the scene repeated itself by means of terrorism and unrestrained and outlawed armed groups using religion to justify the criminal acts to which hundreds of Christians have fallen victim in different areas of Baghdad, Mosul, Basra and Kirkuk. Their properties were seized, considering them [war] trophies as was mentioned in numerous threatening messages and letters which Christians as well as the rest of the non-muslim minorities received. These practices brought on serious consequences for the future of Christian presence in Iraq especially in areas in the South and Center. Entire neighborhoods in Baghdad have become devoid of Christians, after they left to the North and the neighboring countries, and the number of Christians in Baghdad has decreased to less than 200 thousands after there had been more than half a million Christians [living in the city]. Diyala, Ramadi and Habbaniyah have become devoid of Christians and none but a few remain. Most of those who left Baghdad or the South went to areas in the Nineveh plains, the cities in the Kurdistani region of Iraq and the neighboring countries as a stop in preparation for the emigration abroad. Further, Christians and Yazidis faced attacks in December 2011 in the Kurdistani region: their stores, hotels, casinos, massage parlors and women’s hair salons were burned by Kurdish militants, dashing the hopes of Christians that the region would be a safe haven for them, and the consideration of leaving the country became the presupposed choice for them. Unfortunately all that Christians faced and are facing - the operations of broad displacement and killing - is recorded and registered against unknown groups and individuals and is attributed to terrorism. Such as what happened in Mosul in the year 2008, Dora in Baghdad and the rest of the regions, and likewise in Basra and the massacre of the Church of Our Lady of Deliverance, except that these major events resemble more operations of genocide. It is not known who is behind it, despite the formation of investigative committees. Their results have remained ambiguous, unknown and were not publicized,