After an explosion occurring in two mosques in Iraq on the 5th of December, two Christian religious buildings in Mosul (northern Iraq) were attacked today - Armenian and Chaldean churches. The militants had stated before that for every mosque blown up, one church would be destroyed. On 7th December in the afternoon, unidentified gunmen stormed into the city's newly constructed Armenian church, gathered those present, and forced everybody out the church, announcing their intentions to destroy it. The militants then parked a transport loaded with explosives next to the church. The subsequent explosion did a great deal of irreparable damage to the Armenian church.

A similar scenario played out with the attack on the Chaldean church. The only difference was that the explosion was followed by intense fire directed not only at the building, but at all the furnishings inside as well. Neither attack resulted in casualties. On the 8th of December, gunmen appeared at a nearby Armenian church in order to plunder all that had remained inside.

According to head of the Central Armenian National Department of Iraq, these attacks have been of an exclusively anti-Christian nature, and are not specifically anti-Armenian.