Back وحدات حماية سهل نينوى Arabic ھێزەکانی پاسەوانانی دەشتی نەینەوا CKB Unidades para la Protección de la Meseta de Nínive Spanish Unités de protection de la plaine de Ninive French Zaštitne postrojbe Ninivske ravnice Croatian Unit Perlindungan Dataran Niniwe ID 니나와 평원 보호부대 Korean Unidades de Proteção do Planalto de Nínive Portuguese Ninova Ovası Koruma Birimleri Turkish
| Nineveh Plain Protection Units | |
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| ܚܕܝ̈ܘܬ ܣܬܪܐ ܕܫܛܚܐ ܕܢܝܢܘܐ | |
 Emblem of the NPU. | |
| Leaders | Behnam Abush[1] |
| Dates of operation | December 2014 – present |
| Allegiance |  Assyrian Democratic Movement[2] |
| Active regions | Nineveh Plains Northern Iraq |
| Status | Active |
| Size | 600 active (2020)[3] |
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| Flag | .svg) |
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The Nineveh Plain Protection Units (Classical Syriac: ܚܕܝ̈ܘܬ ܣܬܪܐ ܕܫܛܚܐ ܕܢܝܢܘܐ Ḥḏāywāṯ Settārā da-Šṭāḥā d-Nīnwē; Arabic: وحدات حماية سهل نينوى) or NPU is an Assyrian paramilitary organization that was formed in late 2014, largely but not exclusively by Assyrians in Iraq to defend themselves against Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).[5] The Nineveh Plains is a region where Assyrians originate from and have lived there for thousands of years.[6]
- ^ Benham Abush, a former general in the Iraqi army and the NPU’s first commanding officer
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
Newsweek2015was invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Contested Control: The Future of Security in Iraq's Nineveh Plain (PDF). Assyrian Policy Institute. June 1, 2020. p. 34.
- ^ "About the NPU".
- ^ John Burger for Aletia. December 4, 2014 Christians in Iraq Forming Militia to Defend, and Possibly Retake, Ancestral Lands
- ^ Steven Nelson for U.S. News & World Report. Feb. 6, 2015 Iraqi Assyrian Christians Form Anti-ISIS Militia, and You Can Legally Chip In