; Whereas ISIL committed genocide and crimes against humanity against the peoples of the Nineveh Plain, killing and persecuting thousands and forcing survivors to flee their homeland; Whereas the Nineveh Plains Protection Unit (NPU) was established in late 2014 in response to the invasion of Mosul and the Nineveh Plain by ISIL; Whereas the Nineveh Plain Protection Units are part of the Iraqi Security Forces apparatus and are authorized to secure towns and villages in the Nineveh Plain by Nineveh Liberation Operations Command (NLOC); Whereas the Nineveh Plains Protection Units are the only Assyrian Christian force formally listed as an ally alongside United States and Coalition forces in Operation Conquest, to liberate the Nineveh Plain and Mosul from ISIL; Whereas ISIL was driven out of Mosul and the Nineveh plains in 2017, ending its territorial control in Iraq; and Whereas persecuted and displaced peoples are returning to their homeland in order to continue the establishment of a Nineveh Plain province: Now, therefore, be it