Turkey -- A remarkable discovery in the Gerger district, located between Adıyaman and Omid, attests to the centuries-old presence of Syriacs there. In the village of Oymaklı, a stone bearing a Syriac inscription sheds new light on the region's layered history and its centuries-old Syriac presence.
Ankara -- As Turkey's parliamentary committee charged with the "internal peace" file continues deliberations to forge a resolution to the decades-long conflict with the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), broader questions are emerging from the country's historic peoples, particularly the Assyrian people.
When President Trump told the United Nations on Tuesday that Christianity is "the most persecuted religion on the planet," he put blunt words to a grim reality known to millions across the world. The president was correct to highlight the state of Christian persecution worldwide, from criminalization for basic Christian expression in liberal democracies to imprisonment and threat of death under...
Mosul, Iraq -- The abuses of authoritarian regimes across the Middle East extend far beyond the displacement and persecution of indigenous communities such as the Assyrian people. These regimes have also stripped them of their identity, heritage, and ancient history -- rewriting and distorting it in ways that erase their cultural legacy.
The popular YouTube channel A Day in History, with more than eight hundred thousand subscribers and the stated aim of "shedding light on some of history's most suppressed but factual events," published a mini-documentary about the Assyrian genocide in October 2023. Since its release, the documentary has garnered more than 5.
Four Assyrian-Americans from the Assyrians for Justice organization toured northern Iraq for several days in September. Led by Sam Darmo, a Phoenix real estate agent and co-founder of Assyrians for Trump, the group met with an impressive list of high-ranking officials from the Barzani-led KRG.
Assyrians who had migrated to France decades ago due to security concerns returned to their ancestral village of Kosreli in Silopi, a district of Sirnak province in southeastern Turkey. Around 150 community members gathered at the foothills of Mount Cudi to reconnect with their roots and hold a religious service in the village abandoned during times of unrest.
Södertälje, Sweden -- On, Sunday, in an atmosphere filled with pride in identity and longing for roots, the Syriac Orthodox Mor Yacoub Cathedral in Södertälje, Sweden, hosted the second annual Assyrian Language and Culture Festival. The event drew clergy, intellectuals, artists, and a large gathering of Assyrian participants.
Mosul, Iraq -- The local administration in Iraq's Nineveh Governorate unveiled a comprehensive plan to rebuild churches and monasteries destroyed during years of violence, in what officials describe as a pivotal step toward restoring Mosul's social fabric and enabling the return of displaced Christian families.
The Syrian transitional government continues to insist on a centralized system, despite the suffering experienced by the Syrian people under centralized rule over more than 50 years. Many Syrians consider the central system unable to meet the aspirations of a diverse population with multiple cultural, ethnic, and religious backgrounds.
A special event was organized on Friday by the Panhellenic Assyrian Union under the auspices of MEP and university professor Nikolas Farantouris and the Municipality of Egaleo to commemorate the 110th anniversary of the Assyrian Genocide perpetrated by the Ottoman Empire and the Young Turks (1915-2025).
Baghdad -- On Sunday, Assyrian filmmaker Frank Gilbert won the award for Best Cinematography at the Baghdad International Film Festival (BIFF) for his feature film Son of Ashur. For Gilbert, the recognition represents more than a personal milestone. It marks the emergence of an Assyrian cinema determined to grapple with themes of identity, memory, and belonging in a changing Iraq.
(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.