http://www.aina.org/News and Analysis of Assyrian and Assyrian Related Issues Worldwide.en-us08/18/2026Canberra -- On Tuesday, 11 August 2026, delegates of the Joint Justice Initiative (JJI) attended the Parliament of Australia to advocate for the federal recognition of the Armenian, Assyrian and Greek Genocides of 1915.http://www.aina.org/news/20260818055732.htm08/15/2026More than 2,700 years ago, someone in ancient Assyria carefully ground and polished a small piece of rock crystal, leaving it with one flat face and another slightly convex.http://www.aina.org/news/20260815164047.htm08/13/2026Gothenburg, Sweden -- Members of the Assyrian community and others interested in Assyrian affairs gathered on 9 August 2026 for a ceremony organized by the Gothenburg branch of the Assyrian Democratic Movement (Zowaa), in cooperation with the Ashur Banipal Club, to mark Assyrian Martyrs' Day and the 93rd anniversary of the Simmele Massacre.http://www.aina.org/news/20260813060642.htm08/12/2026Archaeologists uncovered a 3,800-year-old storage and trade center with 16 massive jars dating to the Assyrian Trade Colonies Period.Archaeologists excavating Hattusa in central Turkey have uncovered a large storage complex dating back roughly 3,800 years to the Assyrian Trade Colonies Period, revealing new evidence about the economic life of the sehttp://www.aina.org/news/20260812193520.htm08/12/2026In Bucharest, scholars from more than 35 countries adopted a declaration on the protection of Christian heritage. Participants in two major international academic forums signed the document in an effort to preserve the Middle East's unique Christian sacred and cultural heritage amid geopolitical changes in the region, Basilica.http://www.aina.org/news/20260812123343.htm08/12/2026Chaldean Patriarch Mar Paulos III Nona.Baghdad -- Patriarch of the Chaldean Church Mar Paulos III Nona said rebuilding Christian areas destroyed by wars in Iraq is not enough to ensure the survival of the Christian presence, stressing that the greatest challenge is encouraging residents to return to their historic communities and regain confidence ihttp://www.aina.org/news/20260812123153.htm08/11/2026The Assyrian International News Agency chronicles and holds together a dispersed community between the Middle East and the global diaspora, committed to preserving identity and memory.http://www.aina.org/news/20260811154316.htm08/10/2026Patriarch Paulos III Nona.The failure of Christians to return to the Nineveh Plain in northern Iraq today represents the main challenge for a community profoundly affected by war, persecution by the Islamic State, and emigration.http://www.aina.org/news/20260810150518.htm08/10/2026Assyrians around the world marked Martyrs Day last weekend with church services and commemorative events for the Assyrian victims of genocide, particularly across the 20th and 21st centuries.http://www.aina.org/news/20260810012133.htm08/08/2026The 93rd anniversary of the Simmele Massacre has been marked not only by commemorative events and statements from Assyrian institutions, churches and political parties in Iraq and the diaspora, but also by growing calls from Iraqi officials for the massacre formal recognition.http://www.aina.org/news/20260808123215.htm08/07/2026A Simmele Massacre plaque in north Iraq.The Assyrians are among the oldest settled peoples of Beth Nahrin (Mesopotamia) and among the first to embrace Christianity.http://www.aina.org/news/20260807134231.htm08/07/2026His Holiness Mar Awa III, Catholicos-Patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East.His Holiness Mar Awa III, Catholicos-Patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East, made his first-ever visit to Romania from August 3 to 7.http://www.aina.org/news/20260807125903.htm08/07/2026Kurdistan Region President Nechirvan Barzani. ( Kurdistan Region Presidency)Kurdistan Region President Nechirvan Barzani on Friday paid tribute to the victims of the 1933 Simmele massacre on the 93rd anniversary of Assyrian Martyrs' Day, asserting that the Region will remain "a shared homeland" for all its communities.http://www.aina.org/news/20260807125544.htm08/06/2026Along­side those early account­ing sys­tems, the Meso­pot­ami­ans developed the world's first spread­sheets, as well as soph­ist­ic­ated bank­ing sys­tems.http://www.aina.org/ata/20260806193922.htm08/06/2026Baghdad -- An Iraqi Christian woman has successfully challenged her official religious classification after being registered as a Muslim in government records.http://www.aina.org/news/20260806133130.htm