Omid, Turkey -- Kurdish filmmaker Rojhilat Aksoy is facing trial in Turkey on charges of "publicly insulting the Turkish nation and state institutions" after organizing a screening of the animated documentary film "Aurora's Sunrise," which addresses the events of the Assyrian Sayfo Genocide and Armenian Genocide of 1915.
Mehri, Sirnak, Turkey -- A major development has occurred in a 6-year-old mystery in southeastern Turkey, with a court ordering the arrest of the primary suspect in the disappearance of Hurmuz Diril. Apro Diril has been detained in connection with the case file regarding Hurmuz's disappearance, which has remained unsolved since his wife, Smuni Diril, was murdered under unexplained circumstances...
As many military analysts feared, the U.S. and Israeli air campaign over Iran has quickly broadened into a conflict that now engulfs much of the Persian Gulf and Holy Land regions. Iraqi Kurdistan has endured missile and drone attacks from Iranian or Iraqi proxy forces that have targeted the Erbil airport and the headquarters of a remnant U.S. military presence in Erbil.
Kyiv -- Assyrian-Ukrainian heavyweight judoka Yakiv "Yasha" Khammo, an Assyrian athlete who has steadily built a reputation on the international judo circuit, began the 2026 season with mixed results but renewed ambitions as he looks toward the 2028 Olympic Games in Los Angeles.
Pope Leo XIV announced this week that he had accepted the resignation of Chaldean Patriarch Cardinal Louis Raphael Sako from the leadership of the Chaldean Church in Iraq and throughout the world after more than a decade of service marked by major pastoral and political challenges.
Pope Leo XIV has accepted the resignation submitted by Cardinal Louis Raphaël Sako from the office of Patriarch of Baghdad of the Chaldeans, in accordance with Canon 126 §2 of the Code of Canon Law of the Eastern Churches (CCEO).