Tur Abdin, Turkey -- The First Administrative Court in Sirnak has issued a decision suspending the enforcement of an administrative fine and closure order imposed on the annex of the historic Assyrian Orthodox Church of the Virgin Mary in Azakh, known in Assyrian as Beth Zabday (Turkish mandatory name: Idil).
Rami Nouri has been elected Deputy Speaker of the Kurdistan Regional Parliament in Iraq, representing the Christian quota, after securing 52 votes. He is the first Christian to hold the position in the parliament's history.
Mosul, Iraq -- Iraq's Nineveh Governorate has named a street next to the Syriac Orthodox Cathedral of Mor Ephrem in Mosul after Father Bulos Iskandar, honoring his memory and his service to the church and Christian community.
Military deployments in the areas surrounding Makhmur Camp in Iraq's Nineveh Province have undergone changes following the announced withdrawal of Kurdistan Workers' Party (Partiya Karkerên Kurdistanê, PKK) fighters from ten positions they had been using in the area. Control of the positions has since been transferred to the Iraqi army and Peshmerga forces.
Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) Minister of State for Components Affairs Aydin Maruf said Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2026, that efforts were underway to establish a Assyrian school for the Christian community in Sulaimani, while also calling for greater support for existing Turkmen-language schools in the city and Kifri district.
Iraqi President Nizar Amedi received the Syriac Catholic Patriarch of Antioch, His Beatitude Ignatius Joseph III Younan, and his accompanying delegation at the Peace Palace in Baghdad on Sunday, 1 November 2026. According to a statement from the Iraqi Presidency, the President emphasised that Iraq's diversity had enriched its social, cultural and national identity.
Assyrian journalism has been more than a means of reporting news and exchanging information. Throughout its history, it has served as a space for preserving language and identity and a platform for promoting cultural and national awareness among the Assyrian people.
Anyone who has seen The Exorcist will most likely remember Linda Blair as the young girl Regan MacNeil, the menacing figure of an ancient statuette, the soundtrack--with those notes from Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells that still evoke the film to this day--and the way that image has become etched into the horror imagination of the 20th century.
Being a non-Muslim in Turkey is extremely difficult. While non-Muslims accounted for around 30 percent of the country's population before 1914, the presence of these ancient peoples, whose roots in this region predate the arrival of the Turks and Muslims, has dwindled to a tiny fraction of the population, as reflected in demographic statistics.
October 31 marks the 16th anniversary of the massacre at the Syriac Catholic Church of Our Lady of Deliverance in Baghdad, one of the deadliest attacks against Christians in Iraq during years of violence and political and security instability.
This is an invitation to explore the Syriac tradition of Christianity. The Syriac communities form one of the three historic traditions of the Church, of which the others are the Greek and the Latin. The Syriac language is a branch of Aramaic, the Semitic language spoken by Jesus and then used in the Syrian Church of the East, which grew in what is now Iraq and eastern Turkey.
A joint excavation between Korea and Turkey at an archeological site in central Turkey, has uncovered a sprawling Hellenistic urban complex and rare mosaic flooring dating back to around 2000 B.C., the Korea Heritage Service said on Wednesday, adding that the landmark discovery was possible due to Korea's advanced technologies in architecture.
(AINA) -- In her new book, Claire Weibel Yacoub recounts the odyssey of an Assyrian in a historical novel about exile, war, and the unbroken will of a people. With Les tribulations de Paulus l'Assyrien (The Tribulations of Paulus the Assyrian), the French historian and specialist on the Assyro-Chaldean question, Claire Weibel Yacoub, presents a moving novel based on a true story.
Hamilton, Ontario Canada (AINA) -- Dr. Nenos Damerchie, an Assyrian-Canadian chiropractor, small-business owner and longtime Hamilton resident, is running for Hamilton City Council in Ward 8 in the October 26, 2026 municipal election. Dr. Damerchie was born in Kuwait to an Assyrian family and came to Hamilton as a child.
(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 empires of the future are the empires of the mind." With this celebrated statement, Winston Churchill anticipated that great civilizations are measured not by their territorial expansion, but by their capacity to generate, preserve, and transmit knowledge.
(AINA) -- For decades, the world has heard repeated claims that northern Iraq is a region of stability, security, and coexistence. However, many Assyrians living in their ancestral homeland continue to express serious concerns about intimidation, restrictions on their freedoms, and growing pressures that threaten their ability to preserve their identity, voice, and presence in the land of their...
Anyone who has seen The Exorcist will most likely remember Linda Blair as the young girl Regan MacNeil, the menacing figure of an ancient statuette, the soundtrack--with those notes from Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells that still evoke the film to this day--and the way that image has become etched into the horror imagination of the 20th century.
A joint excavation between Korea and Turkey at an archeological site in central Turkey, has uncovered a sprawling Hellenistic urban complex and rare mosaic flooring dating back to around 2000 B.C., the Korea Heritage Service said on Wednesday, adding that the landmark discovery was possible due to Korea's advanced technologies in architecture.