For Christians in Iraq, remaining in their historic homeland increasingly depends not only on security but also on whether younger generations can find meaningful work and build stable lives, according to Chaldean Catholic Archbishop Bashar Warda of Erbil.
When Babylonian and Median forces captured Nineveh in 612 BC, they brought down the capital of a vast empire. The years before the siege had been difficult too. A stalagmite from northern Iraq now gives researchers a long climate record that points to repeated drought during Assyria's final century. It is one piece of a larger story. The empire faced war, revolt and a succession crisis.
Södertälje, Sweden -- Two Assyrian educators, Helena Malki and Johan Mousa, have been recognized among the teachers honored by Södertälje Municipality for their contributions to education, student development and the creation of supportive school environments.
Liege, Belgium -- On 4 October, an event will take place in Liège to commemorate the Sayfo Genocide against the Syriac (Aramean-Assyrian-Chaldean), Armenian and Pontic Greek peoples. The event will feature a documentary exhibition, an academic lecture, and a documentary based on testimonies from survivors and eyewitnesses from 1915.
Amsterdam -- The genocide of Assyrians is now explicitly included in a Dutch history textbook used in secondary education, marking a milestone in a decades-long campaign by Assyrian organizations to bring the history of the 1915 genocide into Dutch classrooms.
The patriarch of the Syriac Catholic Church told The Pillar Tuesday that a Vatican cardinal is behind a recent papal law allowing Eastern Catholic Church leaders to be deposed, and behind the efforts in his own Church to see him dismissed from his position.
As a Chaldean-Assyrian American born at the start of the 2003 Invasion of Iraq to immigrant parents, politics has always surrounded me. I have the wry amusement of being a member of a target demographic in a swing state (Michigan).
(AINA) -- In her new book, Claire Weibel Yacoub recounts the odyssey of an Assyrian in a historical novel about exile, war, and the unbroken will of a people. With Les tribulations de Paulus l'Assyrien (The Tribulations of Paulus the Assyrian), the French historian and specialist on the Assyro-Chaldean question, Claire Weibel Yacoub, presents a moving novel based on a true story.
Tel Tammar, Syria -- Wednesday, 23 September 2026, marks 11 years since the execution of three Assyrian men by the Islamic State (ISIS) months after the militant group attacked the Assyrian villages along the Khabur River in northeastern Syria and abducted hundreds of residents (AINA 2015-10-08). The victims were Dr.
Chicago -- The Hellenic American Women's Council Great Lakes Chapter, in collaboration with Hellenic Link--Midwest, will present Greek-Australian historian and author Dr. Themistocles Kritikakos in a special Zoom program on Saturday, September 26, at 8 a.m. PST. Click here to register. Related: The Assyrian Genocide The program will introduce Dr.
Hamilton, Ontario Canada (AINA) -- Dr. Nenos Damerchie, an Assyrian-Canadian chiropractor, small-business owner and longtime Hamilton resident, is running for Hamilton City Council in Ward 8 in the October 26, 2026 municipal election. Dr. Damerchie was born in Kuwait to an Assyrian family and came to Hamilton as a child.
Christian religious and political leaders in Iraq have urged Prime Minister Ali Faleh Al-Zaidi to guarantee genuine political partnership for the community, enforce state authority, and improve security for the dwindling minority in the Mid-East country.
(AINA) -- In her new book, Claire Weibel Yacoub recounts the odyssey of an Assyrian in a historical novel about exile, war, and the unbroken will of a people. With Les tribulations de Paulus l'Assyrien (The Tribulations of Paulus the Assyrian), the French historian and specialist on the Assyro-Chaldean question, Claire Weibel Yacoub, presents a moving novel based on a true story.
Hamilton, Ontario Canada (AINA) -- Dr. Nenos Damerchie, an Assyrian-Canadian chiropractor, small-business owner and longtime Hamilton resident, is running for Hamilton City Council in Ward 8 in the October 26, 2026 municipal election. Dr. Damerchie was born in Kuwait to an Assyrian family and came to Hamilton as a child.
(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) -- "The empires of the future are the empires of the mind." With this celebrated statement, Winston Churchill anticipated that great civilizations are measured not by their territorial expansion, but by their capacity to generate, preserve, and transmit knowledge.
(AINA) -- For decades, the world has heard repeated claims that northern Iraq is a region of stability, security, and coexistence. However, many Assyrians living in their ancestral homeland continue to express serious concerns about intimidation, restrictions on their freedoms, and growing pressures that threaten their ability to preserve their identity, voice, and presence in the land of their...
Stockholm -- The history of the ancient civilizations and peoples of Beth Nahrin (Mesopotamia), whom the Suroyo (Syriac--Aramean--Assyrian--Chaldean) people today regard as their ancestors, successors and continuation, extends far beyond science, inventions, economics, trade, language, and military affairs.
Alongside those early accounting systems, the Mesopotamians developed the world's first spreadsheets, as well as sophisticated banking systems. They also invented the concept of credit -- and, with it, interest-bearing loans.