http://www.aina.org/News and Analysis of Assyrian and Assyrian Related Issues Worldwide.en-us04/24/2026The Arabic letter "n" (inside red circle), signifying "Nasrani" (Christian), on an Assyrian home in Mosul.New York (AINA) -- Tony S. Kalogerakos, Esq.--Injury Lawyers announced today that its New York office is investigating potential civil claims on behalf of individuals and families harmed by ISIS and the Al-Nusrah Front, following a landmark fedehttp://www.aina.org/news/20260424161004.htm04/24/2026(AINA) -- "We have made a clean sweep of the Armenians and Assyrians of Azerbaijan" -- Those were the words of Djevdet Bey, the governor of Van Province in Ottoman Turkey, who on April 24, 1915 lead 20,000 Turkish soldiers and 10,000 Kurdish irregulars in the opening act of the genocide of Assyrians, Armenians and Greeks.http://www.aina.org/news/20260424123720.htm04/24/2026The Executive Council of the Kurdistan National Congress issued a statement on Friday, on the 111th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide, which included, "In 1915, the Ottoman Empire and its allies committed a major genocide against the Christian peoples living in Mesopotamia and Anatolia.http://www.aina.org/news/20260424122952.htm04/24/2026The parliament of Sweden has hosted a remembrance event on the 111th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide."Today in the Parliament we commemorated the Genocide 1915," MP Björn Söder said in a statement on social media.http://www.aina.org/news/20260424122648.htm04/23/2026Mosul, Iraq -- Some cities carry their history in their stones. Mosul is one of them -- a place where ancient Assyrian gates once rose beside Ottoman-era houses, where minarets have marked the skyline for centuries, and where the layered memory of civilization is written into every arch and façade.http://www.aina.org/news/20260423124856.htm04/23/2026Amnesty International released its 2026 annual report, The State of the World's Human Rights, assessing global, regional, and international developments across a wide range of human rights issues.http://www.aina.org/news/20260423124407.htm04/22/2026(AINA) -- Atrocity denial suffuses the bedrock of the academic field of modern Middle East studies. One of the most frequently cited works about modern Assyrians is a 1974 revisionist account of the 1933 massacres of Assyrians in Iraq.http://www.aina.org/news/20260422184349.htm04/21/2026His Holiness Paulos III Nona, newly elected Patriarch of the Chaldean Church.Paulos III Nona, newly elected Patriarch of Babylon of the Chaldeans, will return to Iraq to assume his position after having been expelled from Mosul in 2014 by the Islamic State, at a time when the Chaldean Church is seeking to rebuild after the recent internal crisis.http://www.aina.org/news/20260421203152.htm04/19/2026On the occasion of World Heritage Day, observed annually on 18 April, the General Directorate of Syriac Culture and Arts issued a statement congratulating Syriac cultural and heritage institutions, reaffirming its continued commitment to safeguarding this civilizational legacy and passing it on to future generations, as the sector faces growing chalhttp://www.aina.org/news/20260419115309.htm04/15/2026I moved from Rhode Island to New Jersey a few months ago with the hope of finding a larger Syriac [Assyrian] community--more families, more gatherings, and more opportunities for my children to grow within their ancestral heritage.http://www.aina.org/news/20260415124440.htm04/14/2026Archbishop Amel Nona, new Patriarch fo the Chaldean Catholic Church.The Synod of the Chaldean Catholic Church elected Archbishop Amel Shamon Nona as the new Patriarch of Baghdad.http://www.aina.org/news/20260414015706.htm04/08/2026Fluent in Aramaic, Kurdish, and Arabic, the owner of this small shop in Ankawa is renowned for having the best kebabs in Erbil."Hezbollah or Allah?" -- "God or his party?"-- someone from Dilan Adamat's group joked as a violent storm broke over a place where rain is rare.http://www.aina.org/news/20260408134208.htm04/07/2026Ankara -- The Assyrian civilization recorded its history on clay tablets. Ancient Assyrian merchants, for example, documented their commercial and economic activities on these tablets.http://www.aina.org/ata/20260407115812.htm04/07/2026Although the Assyrian population of Iraq has declined dramatically this century, to below one per cent of the population, five of the 26-member national football squad that qualified for the soccer-mad country's first World Cup since 1986 are Assyrian Christians.http://www.aina.org/ata/20260407095627.htm04/06/2026(AINA) -- The poetry of prominent Assyrian writer and nationalist Naum Faiq has been translated to English and published under the title Poetry of The Assyrian Awakening: the Poems of Naum Faiq.http://www.aina.org/news/20260406153126.htm