In my previous piece, I described my sojourn in New York. This follow up article is about my trip to Phoenix, which also proved successful. Even before I came to the United States on November 19, 2025, I had participated in two webinars in August and September through Zoom held in Phoenix when I was in Melbourne.
Hidden beneath an ancient temple in Assur, Iraq, archaeologists have made a discovery that holds potentially crucial evidence for the cult of Ishtar's origins in the area. The researchers behind the discovery date the temple's foundation to between 2896 BCE and 2702 BCE, saying that it provides crucial evidence for the spread of Mesopotamian ritual practice to northern Iraq and urban life at...
Historian Themistocles Kritikakos offers the first comprehensive comparative study of Armenian, Greek and Assyrian Genocide recognition efforts in 21 century Australia. Published by Palgrave Macmillan as part of the Palgrave Studies in the History of Genocide series, Armenian, Greek, and Assyrian Genocide Recognition in Twenty-First-Century Australia: Memory, Identity, and Cooperation examines...
Södertälje, Sweden -- Citing concerns about vandalism and desecration, Sweden's cemetery authority has removed the headstone from the grave of Assyrian Salwan Momika, nearly a year after his killing. According to his father, Sabah Momika, the family was shocked after receiving a recent photo of their son's grave showing that the headstone had been replaced with a green sign instructing them to...
Northwestern al-Hasakah countryside (northeastern Syria) saw a notable field development on Wednesday evening, 28 January, as direct clashes and an exchange of shelling broke out between Syrian government forces and the Syrian Democratic Forces ("SDF") on the Tell Tamer axis (in al-Hasakah governorate, northeastern Syria).
At the crossroads of East and West, Turkey, also known as Türkiye, is a secular state and a country many would consider at least semi-Western. And yet few places on earth have seen as drastic a decline in their Christian population. In just one century, Christians went from 20% of Turkey's population to two-tenths of 1%.