As it becomes clear that one major outcome of the region's revolutions will be the empowerment of Islamists, the Arab Spring threatens to become a nightmare for the Middle East's Christian minority.

AINKAWA, Iraq (Reuters) - Ammar Ablahad fled Baghdad to the northern Iraqi region of Kurdistan just last week, determined to celebrate Christmas with his wife and baby without fear of attack. "There's ...

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Two people were injured on April 1 in a cleaver attack on an Assyrian Christian celebration in northern Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region, officials said, pointing to the Islamic State jihadist group ...

Six Christian political parties in Iraq’s Kurdistan have announced boycott of upcoming regional elections in June to protest the abolition of quota seats by a top court, says a report. The Assyrian ...

The head of a lamassu statue, an ancient Assyrian deity often depicted as a winged-bull with a human head, lies in the archaeological site of Nimrud, south of Mosul, on January 3, 2025. (Zaid ...

Kurdistan Region President Nechirvan Barzani met Pope Leo XIV on Monday in the Vatican during a visit to the Vatican, where he discussed religious coexistence and extended an invitation for the Pope ...

Menas Saad Youssef no longer fears being blown up while praying in a church. But she and many other traumatized Christians who fled Iraq’s capital for safer areas have a new crisis — no jobs. Almost a ...