Sorya, Iraq -- Chaldean-Syriac-Assyrian modern history is overshadowed by massacres and genocides. After the 1915 Genocide, the Kafno, and the 1933 Simmele Massacre, the wronged Chaldean-Syriac-Assyrian people were subjected to another massacre on September 16, 1969, in the remote village of Sorya, Zakho district of Nohadra (Duhok) Governorate in what is now the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI).
A visiting Assyrian delegation from the United States to the Kurdistan Region told Rudaw that they obtained a landmark approval from Duhok authorities to build a monument in Simmele to honor victims of the 1933 Simmele massacre.
Chaldean Patriarch Cardinal Louis Raphael Sako on Tuesday called for rejecting proposed amendments to the law governing the Endowments Office for Christians, Yazidis, and Mandaeans, warning that the changes could undermine the identity and rights of these historic religious communities.
The Kurdish group in control of northeastern Syria, under the name of the Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, has once again demanded that Assyrian schools in the Gozarto region adopt its curriculum. This latest pressure comes after negotiations between the Kurdish entity and the Syrian Ministry of Education in Damascus failed to reach an agreement.
WASHINGTON -- Radical jihadis and other extremist groups have carried out brutal mass killings and other human rights violations against Syria's religious minorities, prompting calls from religious freedom advocates for the United States to take action. Dr.
Sections of the Armenian, Assyrian, and Greek communities across the globe have greeted Benjamin Netanyahu's recent acknowledgment of the genocides of their peoples with jubilation. His words, spoken during an interview with Patrick Bet-David, were invested by sections of the Greek media especially, with the aura of long-sought vindication.
SEERI is not Syriac, but for those who follow the language, it is essentially linked to the language. The St. Ephrem Ecumenical Research Institute -- SEERI -- at the Baker Hills in Kottayam, is the only institute in India studying and researching Syriac, an Eastern Aramaic language, developed in Edessa (southeastern Turkey).
Foreign Affairs Magazine this week published a lengthy article by Prof. Steven Simon of Dartmouth College and Adam Weinstein, Deputy Director of the Middle East Program at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, on recent developments in Syria since the fall of the Assad regime and Ahmad al-Sharaa's assumption of Syrian presidency. Simon and Weinstein note that U.S.
A 45-year-old disabled Assyrian man, Ashur Sarnaya, was killed in his home in the city of Lyon on Wednesday evening, French media reported. Ashur was live streaming on social media when someone entered his apartment and began stabbing him in the throat. In videos shared online from the stream, blood can be seen pouring from his throat as he struggles to breathe.
From 9-13 September 2025, Christians from across the region's different traditions -- Assyrian Church of the East, Chaldean, Syriac Catholic and Syriac Orthodox -- are joining together for an extended celebration of the feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross.
President Donald Trump's public defense of Christian identity and traditions is growing louder. He has declared unequivocally that his administration will not tolerate any targeting or marginalization of Christians, whether inside the United States or abroad.
(AINA) -- The use of the term "minority" to describe Assyrians in Turkey and later in Iraq is deeply tied to the political and nationalist agendas of these nations, particularly in the 20th century. While Assyrians are undoubtedly the indigenous people of the land of the two rivers (Mesopotamia), the term "minority" was used to undermine their presence, deny their historical rights, and...
(AINA) -- There were three Assyrian empires in BC times. The first was from 2000 BC to 1750 BC; the second was from 1365 BC to 1076 BC; the third and most famous and influential was called the Neo-Assyrian Empire, ruling from 911 BC to 609 BC. The following video from the History Time youtube channel presents the history of the neo-Assyrian empire. ...
(AINA) -- The following report by CBN addresses the issue of "protection" of Assyrians by the Kurdish regional government in north Iraq. ...
(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 use of the term "minority" to describe Assyrians in Turkey and later in Iraq is deeply tied to the political and nationalist agendas of these nations, particularly in the 20th century. While Assyrians are undoubtedly the indigenous people of the land of the two rivers (Mesopotamia), the term "minority" was used to undermine their presence, deny their historical rights, and...
(AINA) -- 'Syria is free'; thus screamed the Syrians as they celebrated the tumbling down of the criminal regime during a whole week. Thousands, even millions, of Syrians strolled the streets of the entire major cities of Syria. They were from all societal segments, strata, trends, genders, religious beliefs and non-religious ones, convictions, sects, confessions, parties, and orientations.
What if I told you that the core principles driving blockchain technology were actually explored over 5,000 years ago? Not in Silicon Valley boardrooms, but in the dusty archives of ancient Mesopotamia. Sounds unlikely, so let me explain how it worked.
Perceptions of ancient Mesopotamia -- the birthplace of the world's first civilisations, which emerged more than 4,000 years ago across what is now Iraq -- are dominated by stories of divine kings, their monumental stepped ziggurats, and vast libraries brimming with forgotten knowledge.