What is "baqofah"

Baqofa (also, Baqofah or Bakofa or Bakopa or Baqopa) is an Assyrian village in Assyria, northern Iraq located near Batnaya. Most of its inhabitants are adherents of the Chaldean Catholic Church. The village's Aramaic name may derive from "Beth Qopa" or "Beth Qofa", signifying either the "House of Rods" or "Place of the Skull." The town is occupied and used as a base of operations by Dwekh Nawsha, an Assyrian Christian militia.