Kurds targeted Assyrians who did not want to pay the jizya tax or tribute. In 1918, the Kurdish tribal chief, Ismail Simko, killed Assyrian Patriarch Mar Shimun XIX Benyamin and his entourage.

In the Kurdish autonomous of North Iraq, The Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) are acting in the same way as the Turkish government has for 90 years against Kurds and Assyrians. Reports of systematic ...

At the moment, ISIS is the common enemy of the Assyrians and the Kurds who fight nearby. These allies confronted the Jabhat al-Nusra front in Tel Hamis in the fall and winter of 2013, and finally ...

While Kurdish intellectuals trace the multi-linguistic Kurds to whichever ancient peoples (most notably the Medes) that will benefit their cause, Mr. Xarib insists that Assyrians are actually the ...

Assyrians and Kurds clash for first time in north Syria. Several fighters killed in clashes prompted by Assyrians’ move to set up checkpoints in Qamishli in fear of ISIL.

Kurdish oppression of Assyrians has a long-standing history, most notably during the Assyrian genocide by the Ottomans in ...

Masrour’s administration forces Assyrian children to go to Kurdish and Muslim schools by refusing to fund schools in Christian villages. He refuses to allow the Akitu and Nassiban Assyrian ...

However, he said that the Assyrian community had celebrated their new year, known as Akitu, in Duhok since the 1990s without incidents of violence and acknowledged the support of local Kurdish ...

By selling Ankara the Kurdish oil in the Kirkuk to Mosul Kurdish and Assyrian region, the KDP stalls the Turks’s real ambition, which is to regain this region.

A couple of men explore the ancient site of Khenis, which was built around 700 B.C. by the Assyrian king Sanharib. Francesco Lastrucci “The Kurds have no friends but the mountains,” a Kurdish ...

Languages such as Kurdish and Assyrian face greater challenges because there is no official state. Community initiatives such as weekend schools and cultural celebrations are key ways to keep ...

However, he said that the Assyrian community had celebrated their new year, known as Akitu, in Duhok since the 1990s without incidents of violence and acknowledged the support of local Kurdish ...