In contrast, Assyrian families in the same areas often faced obstacles in obtaining building permits or reclaiming their ...

Assyria will Rise by Paul Batou. The Assyrians, an indigenous people with over 6,775 years of history and one of the world's earliest Christian communities, are vanishing from their ancestral homeland ...

Representatives of the Druze, Kurdish, Alawite communities attend conference aimed at forging ties between Israel and ...

They came before dawn, under the cover of darkness. Overpowering and killing three village guards, they took hundreds of captives — men, women and children, from the elderly to the very young. Then ...

Kurds, Maronites, Druze, Circassians, Assyrians, even pockets of Bedouins and Iranian dissidents—all found common cause with ...

A photograph shared to social media in March 2025 showed a large, partially buried headless statue alongside excavators. With hooved feet and a winged body, the "massive 2,700-year-old" statue was ...

On Feb. 6, President Donald Trump issued an executive order on "eradicating anti-Christian bias," ushering in a new task force to revoke policies aimed at oppressing America's Christians. Since ...

Two people were injured on April 1 in a cleaver attack on an Assyrian Christian celebration in northern Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region, officials said, pointing to the Islamic State jihadist group ...

In the ruins of the ancient Assyrian metropolis Nineveh, in modern Iraq, researchers have unearthed a rare artifact: a massive stone relief depicting important deities and Ashurbanipal, the last great ...