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Ishtar TV is a broadcaster focused on Chaldean, Syriac and Assyrian affairs, headquartered in Ankawa, the Christian suburb of Erbil in Iraqi Kurdistan. It carries daily news, Syriac-oriented programmes and entertainment, alongside music, church coverage and community reporting.

Ankawa as a Christian base

Ankawa has become the centre of Iraq's Christian life since 2003, as Chaldean, Syriac and Assyrian families moved north from Baghdad and Mosul. A channel based there works where its audience now lives, and its reporting follows the displacement as much as the liturgy.

Syriac programming and church coverage

The channel carries Syriac-oriented output, church services and religious feasts, which matters because Syriac is the liturgical language of the Chaldean Catholic, Syriac Orthodox and Assyrian Church of the East communities, and its use on television is part of keeping it alive.

Music clips and heritage features

The video section has included interviews with artists, heritage pieces about old Mosul and reports on local festivals. Old Mosul is a subject of particular weight: the city's Christian quarter was destroyed in the fighting against Islamic State, and the community's memory of it survives largely in recordings.

News for a scattered community

Its news covers community institutions, cultural education, events in towns and villages, and Iraqi and international affairs, addressing a population that is now split between the Nineveh Plain, Kurdistan and a diaspora in Europe, Australia and North America.

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