Ankawa (Aramaic: ܥܢܟܒܐ, Arabic:عنكاوا, ‘Ankāwā), is an Iraqi town of about 20,000 people, in practice a suburb of Arbil, Erbil Governorate in northern Iraq. The town is predominantly Assyrian, comprising mostly adherents of the Chaldean Catholic Church and the Church of the East. The town houses the compounds for the majority of the NGOs and international organizations active in the north of Iraq. The town is adjacent to the new Erbil International Airport[1].