Archaeologists in Iraq's Nineveh province have announced the discovery of a rare Assyrian stele dating to the reign of King Ashurbanipal, shedding new light on the ancient capital's urban achievements nearly 2,600 years ago.
Residents of the Assyrian village of Kashkawa in the Nahla Valley have issued a public appeal calling for immediate intervention after Kurdish settlers have once again cultivated disputed village lands despite court rulings ordering the encroachments to be removed.
Israel's government unanimously approved Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar's proposal on Sunday, June 28, 2026, to officially recognize the Armenian Genocide perpetrated by the Ottoman Empire during and after World War I. The decision also draws attention to parallel atrocities committed against Greeks (including Pontic and Anatolian Greeks) and Assyrians in the same period.
Did the fall of Nineveh in 612 BCE mark the end of Assyria? A new interdisciplinary study by the Assyrian-Australian Daniel Sada argues that the contemporary Persian evidence tells a fundamentally different story.
As discussions continue over the drafting of Syria's future constitution, advocates for the country's indigenous Assyrian community are renewing calls for explicit legal protections for the Assyrian language, arguing that broad constitutional commitments alone are insufficient to preserve one of the world's oldest living languages.
One of my earliest memories is sitting on my mother's lap, watching a football match. Seeing a goal hit the back of the net at an angle only Pythagoras would know, and being submerged in raucous roars that cascaded among family members was exhilarating and unifying.
On July 1, 2026, the halls of the Australian Parliament House in Canberra will host a critical geopolitical dialogue as Assyrian leaders, international diplomats, and policymakers convene for the Nineveh Plains Summit.
Beirut -- Marking the Fourth Sunday after Pentecost and the annual remembrance of the victims of the 1915 Sayfo Genocide, Assyrian Catholic Patriarch Ignatius Joseph III Younan urged Assyrian Christians to remain steadfast in their faith, preserve their ecclesiastical heritage, and strengthen the next generation against the pressures of displacement and cultural assimilation.
Assyrian Empire Warfare Deportation and Imperial Roads belongs to the core record of world ancient and classical civilizations because it shows how communities organized power before modern states, corporations or international bodies existed. The Neo-Assyrian Empire built a militarized state that used roads, siegecraft, tribute, deportation and palace imagery to dominate West Asia.
Armenia is the most homogenous country in the post-Soviet world, with 98% of its citizens identified as ethnic Armenians. Nevertheless, other ethnic groups live in the country, including Russians, Kurds, Greeks, Jews, Ukrainians and Assyrians. Assyrians are indigenous to Mesopotamia, where they have lived for thousands of years.
The head of the Chaldean Catholic Church in Iraq and the world, Patriarch Mar Paul III Nona, said Sunday he has no clear picture of Christian representation in the current Iraqi government, adding that the coming period would bring greater clarity on the matter.
North Iraq -- For the Assyrian people, the Nineveh Plain and the broader Nineveh Governate are not just geographically significant but deeply tied to their historical and cultural identity. Any shift in the region's demographic trends is viewed with great concern.
Glane, Netherlands (AINA) -- An Assyrian Genocide memorial has been erected at the St. Ephrem Monastery in Glane, Netherlands. This is the 23rd Assyrian Genocide monument in the world. The Assyrian Genocide occurred between 1915 and 1918 during World War One, and was perpetrated by Ottoman Turkey, with the help of Kurds, who were hired as the henchmen of Turkey.
(AINA) -- Josephine Zomayah Attisha is the founder of Community Helping All-Inclusively (CHAI ACS1), an organization founded to support Assyrian community development. Rooted in service to the Assyrian (also known as Chaldean Syriac people), CHAI ACS works to strengthen community institutions, preserve cultural heritage, and support families across the homeland and diaspora.
(AINA) -- The Assyrian Arts Institute (AAI) is an organization founded by Nora Betyousef Lacey in 2017 and claims to support Assyrian arts. AAI has sponsored a few events since its founding, including an Assyrian women's choir.
(AINA) -- On July 12 Iraqi president Abdul Latif Rashid repealed the decree recognizing the appointment of Cardinal Louis Raphael Sako as head of the Chaldean Catholic Church and which appointed him to the office of the waqf (وقف), the endowment which oversees all church property. The details of the events leading up to this action are exhaustively covered in this report by MEMRI.
(AINA) -- In the realm of International Law, the efficacy of the historical claims of transnational communities does not depend on the moral legitimacy of their narratives, but rather on their rigorous adaptation to prevailing normative categories. The Assyrian cause, backed by a highly mobilized global diaspora, stands at a strategic crossroads of great consequence.
(AINA) -- The security situation in northern Syria has reached a critical stage. What was previously described as allegations is now substantiated by multiple field reports and security assessments confirming the existence of established tunnel networks linking Syrian territory with both Iraq and Turkey.
A small clay tablet no larger than a modern handheld document is offering an extraordinary glimpse into the commercial world of Anatolia nearly 4,000 years ago. Now on display at the Kayseri Archaeology Museum, the cuneiform tablet remained sealed inside its original clay envelope for millennia.
Together with the Tigris, the Euphrates is one of the most historically significant river systems in Western Asia. The way it formed marks a key event in the development of the Fertile Crescent, the arc of fertile land in the Middle East where some of the world's earliest civilizations emerged.