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.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

In the sorry neighborhood that the Middle East has become, the Kurds are probably the Assyrians’ best friend, neighbor and hope for the future. David Romano has been a Rudaw columnist since 2010.

Kurdish oppression of Assyrians has a long-standing history, most notably during the Assyrian genocide by the Ottomans in 1915–1918, where many Kurdish tribes assisted in the Ottoman campaigns ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...