New York (AINA) -- Tony S. Kalogerakos, Esq.--Injury Lawyers announced today that its New York office is investigating potential civil claims on behalf of individuals and families harmed by ISIS and the Al-Nusrah Front, following a landmark federal criminal case and recent legal developments under U.S. anti-terrorism law. The firm's investigation follows the 2022 guilty plea by Lafarge S.A. in U.
(AINA) -- "We have made a clean sweep of the Armenians and Assyrians of Azerbaijan" -- Those were the words of Djevdet Bey, the governor of Van Province in Ottoman Turkey, who on April 24, 1915 lead 20,000 Turkish soldiers and 10,000 Kurdish irregulars in the opening act of the genocide of Assyrians, Armenians and Greeks.
The Executive Council of the Kurdistan National Congress issued a statement on Friday, on the 111th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide, which included, "In 1915, the Ottoman Empire and its allies committed a major genocide against the Christian peoples living in Mesopotamia and Anatolia. In addition, a large number of Yazidi Kurds lost their lives in this genocide.
The parliament of Sweden has hosted a remembrance event on the 111th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide."Today in the Parliament we commemorated the Genocide 1915," MP Björn Söder said in a statement on social media. "The Genocide in the Ottoman Empire during World War I is often referred to as the Genocide 1915, the Armenian Genocide or, by especially Assyrians and Syrians, as Seyfo.
Mosul, Iraq -- Some cities carry their history in their stones. Mosul is one of them -- a place where ancient Assyrian gates once rose beside Ottoman-era houses, where minarets have marked the skyline for centuries, and where the layered memory of civilization is written into every arch and façade. It is also a city that knows, better than most, what it means to have that memory threatened.
Amnesty International released its 2026 annual report, The State of the World's Human Rights, assessing global, regional, and international developments across a wide range of human rights issues. Covering 144 countries, the report highlights widespread violations of the international order, contributing to worsening conditions affecting citizens' lives.
(AINA) -- Atrocity denial suffuses the bedrock of the academic field of modern Middle East studies. One of the most frequently cited works about modern Assyrians is a 1974 revisionist account of the 1933 massacres of Assyrians in Iraq. Its author, Khaldun S. Husry, dismisses Assyrian recollections of the violence as "propaganda of the victims.
Paulos III Nona, newly elected Patriarch of Babylon of the Chaldeans, will return to Iraq to assume his position after having been expelled from Mosul in 2014 by the Islamic State, at a time when the Chaldean Church is seeking to rebuild after the recent internal crisis.
On the occasion of World Heritage Day, observed annually on 18 April, the General Directorate of Syriac Culture and Arts issued a statement congratulating Syriac cultural and heritage institutions, reaffirming its continued commitment to safeguarding this civilizational legacy and passing it on to future generations, as the sector faces growing challenges.
I moved from Rhode Island to New Jersey a few months ago with the hope of finding a larger Syriac [Assyrian] community--more families, more gatherings, and more opportunities for my children to grow within their ancestral heritage.
The Synod of the Chaldean Catholic Church elected Archbishop Amel Shamon Nona as the new Patriarch of Baghdad. After meeting in Rome on 9 April the Synod elected Nona on Sunday, the second day of voting. He took the patriarchal name Paul III and will be enthroned on 15 May. The 58-year-old previously headed the Eparchy of St Thomas the Apostle in Sydney, to which he was appointed in 2015.
"Hezbollah or Allah?" -- "God or his party?"-- someone from Dilan Adamat's group joked as a violent storm broke over a place where rain is rare. The thunder was so loud it could easily have been mistaken for a ballistic missile or drone strike -- like the hundreds that have hit Erbil, the capital of the semi-autonomous Kurdistan region of northern Iraq. Adamat's group did not flinch.
New York (AINA) -- Tony S. Kalogerakos, Esq.--Injury Lawyers announced today that its New York office is investigating potential civil claims on behalf of individuals and families harmed by ISIS and the Al-Nusrah Front, following a landmark federal criminal case and recent legal developments under U.S. anti-terrorism law. The firm's investigation follows the 2022 guilty plea by Lafarge S.A. in U.
(AINA) -- "We have made a clean sweep of the Armenians and Assyrians of Azerbaijan" -- Those were the words of Djevdet Bey, the governor of Van Province in Ottoman Turkey, who on April 24, 1915 lead 20,000 Turkish soldiers and 10,000 Kurdish irregulars in the opening act of the genocide of Assyrians, Armenians and Greeks.
(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 security situation in northern Syria has reached a critical stage. What was previously described as allegations is now substantiated by multiple field reports and security assessments confirming the existence of established tunnel networks linking Syrian territory with both Iraq and Turkey.
(AINA) -- Iraq is being dismantled deliberately. This destruction is not the result of fate, historical inevitability, or the diversity of its people. It is the outcome of calculated decisions made by political elites who chose loyalty to power, parties, and foreign patrons over loyalty to the Iraqi nation.
Ankara -- The Assyrian civilization recorded its history on clay tablets. Ancient Assyrian merchants, for example, documented their commercial and economic activities on these tablets. However, they also preserved other aspects of life, most notably the practice of blood money.
Although the Assyrian population of Iraq has declined dramatically this century, to below one per cent of the population, five of the 26-member national football squad that qualified for the soccer-mad country's first World Cup since 1986 are Assyrian Christians.