Days after masked gunmen raided Wadi al-Nasara, Syria's Christian heartland, killing two and leaving one injured, the world celebrated Syria's "free elections"--elections that were far from free and proposed a new threat to Indigenous Christians in the country.
Leaders of the International Society for Human Rights (ISHR) met Monday (Oct. 6) with His Eminence Ignatius Aphrem II, Syriac-Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch and All the East, in Damascus to discuss the challenges facing Syria's Christian communities following the country's first parliamentary elections since the fall of the Assad regime.
Stockholm -- In response to a surge of violence targeting Christians across Syria, particularly in Wadi al-Masihiyeen (Valley of Christians) in the Hmoth (Homs) countryside, the European Syriac Union (ESU) filed an official case with the Swedish government, condemning widespread killings, looting, and intimidation by unidentified assailants, and denouncing what it called the "silence and inaction"...
The Chaldean Church in Iraq rejected on Thursday any "corrupt or armed" individuals seeking to represent Christians in the country's upcoming parliamentary elections, stressing that its loyalty remains solely to Iraq and its people.
For nearly two millennia, Iraq's Christians have been a thread in Mesopotamia's history. From the monasteries of Nineveh to the churches of Baghdad and the mountain villages of the north, they preserved traditions that predate Islam. Their language, art, and liturgy carry the heritage of vanished civilizations.
A German Christian human rights delegation met with senior Assyrian and Christian political leaders in Damascus on 7 October 2025, as part of a regional visit to Christian leaders, organizations, and active political parties amid a surge in violations targeting Christians.
Syria's Christian minority continues to face an uncertain future decades into the country's conflict and political upheaval, according to the head of the Syriac Orthodox church, caught between dwindling numbers, political marginalization and hopes for an inclusive state.
The ancient civilizations of the classical world inspire admiration, whether we think of the elaborate monuments of ancient Egypt, the academic achievements of classical Greece, or the domination of the Roman Empire. These ancient civilizations enabled the creation of incredible cities, with palaces, temples, and monuments to public entertainment built on the wealth of expansive empires.
(AINA) -- Halfway northeast between Kalamazoo and Lansing is a very small town called Assyria, which has earned the claim of being on the ten most haunted places in Michigan, with numerous ghost sigtings. Here are pictures of this town named after Assyria. ...
On the occasion of the International Day of Non-Violence, the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO) hosted a webinar bringing together representatives from East Turkestan, Assyria, West Papua and Tibet, to discuss non-violent resistance as a strategic path toward self-determination and human rights.
The Syriac Orthodox Church has denounced the Syrian Democratic Forces for shutting down Christian schools in northeastern Syria, insisting that they will only teach the official internationally recognized and government-approved curriculum.
Athens -- Visitors to the Acropolis Museum today were met with a striking new sight on the west side of its outdoor terrace -- a monumental sculpture in the form of a winged bull. On closer inspection, the most fascinating detail emerges: the sculpture is made entirely of metal date syrup cans from Iraq, each carrying with it stories of war, destruction, but also resilience, unity, and hope.
(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.
The ancient civilizations of the classical world inspire admiration, whether we think of the elaborate monuments of ancient Egypt, the academic achievements of classical Greece, or the domination of the Roman Empire. These ancient civilizations enabled the creation of incredible cities, with palaces, temples, and monuments to public entertainment built on the wealth of expansive empires.
(AINA) -- Halfway northeast between Kalamazoo and Lansing is a very small town called Assyria, which has earned the claim of being on the ten most haunted places in Michigan, with numerous ghost sigtings. Here are pictures of this town named after Assyria. ...