The ancient Assyrians have been judged somewhat unfairly as brutal people whose only desire was to conquer their neighbors. Although this is true to some extent, it overlooks the important role the ...

Did Assyrians forget what the Kurds committed in 2014 when ISIS attacked Mosul, the Nineveh Plain and Khabor regions? First, the Kurdish peshmerga disarmed the Assyrians and then fled when ISIS ...

The UNPO expresses grave concern over the deteriorating situation facing Assyrian communities in Iraq and Syria, as ...

DOHUK, Iraq (AP) — Witnesses said the attacker, who has not been officially identified, ran toward the crowd shouting Islamic slogans. DOHUK, Iraq (AP) — The annual parade by Assyrian Christians in ...

This article is written by Saman Daoud. It is part of a series examining free expression and information access in civic spaces across six language communities in the MENA region. These challenges ...

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The first Patriarch in history to visit the U. S. docked in Manhattan last week, settled at the Gramercy Park Hotel. His Beatitude Eshai Mar Shimun, 119th Patriarch of Assyria and head of the Church ...

MODESTO, Calif. (AP) — Isaac Samow's Assyrian Christian ancestors have occupied Mesopotamia for millennia, surviving innumerable conquests and massacres. Now war is again threatening Assyrian culture ...

In a groundbreaking archaeological discovery, a team from Heidelberg University unearthed a massive relief beneath the North Palace of King Ashurbanipal in the ancient city of Nineveh, Iraq. The ...