(AINA) -- Iraq today faces a deep and troubling challenge، the escalating influence of Iran within its political, security, and economic institutions. Once a nation striving to restore its sovereignty and rebuild after decades of war and suffering, Iraq has become an open arena for foreign agendas.
As Iraq tallies the results of yesterday's parliamentary elections, the political landscape for the country's minorities has entered a period of turbulence and controversy. The Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) appears to have secured most of Iraq's quota seats -- which are positions constitutionally reserved for minority representation -- while one of the country's enduring Christian political...
Chaldean Archbishop of Erbil Bashar Matti Warda on Tuesday urged Iraq's Christian community to turn out in large numbers for the parliamentary elections, saying strong participation would send a clear message of presence and influence. "We always encourage every Christian to vote -- it's essential," Warda told Shafaq News. "Each election reflects how visible we are as a community.
Detroit -- Four months after publishing her poetry collection The Tablets: Secrets of Clay, Iraqi-American poet and writer of Assyrian descent Dunya Mikhail celebrated with a signing of her new book at Al-Shorouk Hall in Sterling Heights, Michigan.
The town of Rableh, nestled in the Wadi al-Masihiyeen (Valley of Christians) in the Hmoth (Homs) countryside, witnessed a somber gathering this week as hundreds of men, women, and children came together in mourning.
Washington -- On Monday, as Ahmad al-Sharaa marked the first visit by a Syrian president to the White House, Morhaf Ibrahim, President of the Alawites Association of the United States, and Richard Ghazal, Executive Director of In Defense of Christians, published an op-ed in The Washington Times urging President Donald Trump to hold Syria's new government accountable for protecting the country's...
Football is more than a sport in Iraq -- it is a unifying passion that transcends ethnicity and religion. Among the many communities that have shaped the nation's football story the Assyrians have played an outsized role. Their journey into Iraqi football cannot be told without first looking back at their history of displacement and survival.
As Iraq prepares for its parliamentary elections on 11 November, the Beth Nahrain Patriotic Union (Huyodo Bethnahrin Athroyo, HBA) announced it will boycott the vote, declaring that Iraq's political system no longer represents its "original components" and that the electoral process has been "hijacked" by dominant political blocs.
In a significant step toward improving the situation of Iraq's Christian population, Nineveh Governor Abdul Qader al-Dakhil met with Syriac Orthodox Archbishop Timotheus Mousa al-Shamani, head of the Diocese of Mor Mattai Monastery and Honorary President of the Assyrian Council in Bartella (Baritle).
The Syriac Orthodox church in the village of Bote, Tur Abdin, home to several historic churches and shrines, has become the target of illegal practices against its Christian heritage. Assyrian villagers from the diaspora--no Assyrians live year-round in Bote anymore--had decided to build a protective wall around the Syriac Orthodox Virgin Mary Church, whose structure had collapsed since the Sayfo...
The Syriac Union Party today visited the office of the Suraya Democratic Party in Tel Tamr, Khabur River Valley, North and East Syria. The visiting delegation included members of the Syriac Union Party's Executive Committee Gabriel Shamoun and Simon Gerges. They were received by Madeleine Warda, Co-Chair of the Suraya Democratic Party, and several party members.
Iraq's parliamentary system reserves nine of its 329 seats for ethnic and religious minorities, ensuring representation for Christians, Yazidis, Shabak, Sabean-Mandaeans, and Feyli Kurds. Together with the constitutional requirement that at least 25 percent of seats be held by women, these quotas form the backbone of Iraq's inclusive electoral framework ahead of the November 2025 elections.
(AINA) -- From the heart of ancient Mesopotamia, the land of prophets and sages, arose one of the most profound spiritual voices of all time -- Saint Isaac of Nineveh (also known as Isaac the Syrian). Born in the region that once formed the cradle of civilization, he became a radiant beacon of divine wisdom, humility, and compassion.
(AINA) -- Local Kurdish authorities in northern Iraq have pursued a quiet but systematic policy of granting Iraqi citizenship and residency rights to large numbers of Kurds, estimated at more than two million, arriving from neighboring countries such as Iran, Turkey, and Syria.
(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) -- Iraq today faces a deep and troubling challenge، the escalating influence of Iran within its political, security, and economic institutions. Once a nation striving to restore its sovereignty and rebuild after decades of war and suffering, Iraq has become an open arena for foreign agendas.
(AINA) -- The reopening of the Egyptian Museum stands as a powerful symbol of cultural rebirth and national pride. Egypt, one of the world's oldest civilizations, has long recognized that the preservation of its heritage is not merely an act of remembrance--it is an act of self-affirmation.
The earliest form of the signature came from ancient Iraq in the form of cylinder seals. Mesopotamians, the ancient inhabitants of the land between the Euphrates and Tigris rivers, are credited for many firsts in human history, including writing, urbanism and the state. Among these inventions, cylinder seals are perhaps the most distinctive but least known.
Do you worry about things? Do you wake up in the middle of the night, sweating about what might happen to you, to your family, to the world in general? I do. If you do too, rest assured you're not alone. It's a natural human trait, and it's something people have been doing for millennia.