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 ...

Masrour Barzani, prime minister of the Kurdistan Regional Government in Iraq, describes himself as protector of religious minorities. Under his watch, the Kurdish government’s official website states, ...

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

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ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey is building two camps along its far southeastern border with Syria to house a growing number of refugees from Syrian minority groups, mainly Assyrian Christians as well as ...

The name of Alagöz neighborhood in the southeastern district of Midyat has been changed back to Bethkustan - a first time that an Assyrian village name has been returned. For the first time in Turkey, ...

For the beleaguered indigenous Christians of the Middle East, there was hope the historic visit of Pope Francis to Iraq would bring much needed awareness to their plight. Despite recognizing the ...

I never intended to visit Adabashi. I was heading toward the border crossing between Turkey and Iraq, hoping to get to northern Iraq before the widely anticipated war began. But the Turkish border ...

AMMAN (Reuters) - Islamic State militants have abducted at least 150 people from Assyrian Christian villages in northeastern Syria they had raided, Christian Syrian activists said on Tuesday. A Syrian ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. IRBIL, Iraq (AP) — Election results from the ...