August 7th marks Assyrian Martyrs Day, a time when we Kurds should focus on how we can help secure justice for the victims of the crimes committed against this persecuted community. Assyrians, also ...

A relief from the Assyrian capital of Nimrud showing the god Ashur. Assyrians derive their name from Ashur. (Wikimedia Commons) What comes to mind when you think of an empire? Is it the Roman Empire, ...

Assyrians are the last Aramaic-speaking ethnic community indigenous to a homeland between Iraq, Turkey, Syria and Iran. Their ...

David William Lazar is an outspoken friend of Israel and an Assyrian activist. He can go to Israel but he is not so sure when it is safe for him to go back to Iraq, where he was born. – We try to ...

This meticulous and moving book was originally published in France in 2015, the 100th anniversary of the Armenian and Assyrian genocides—what Assyrians call “the Year of the Sword” (Seyfo). The ...

Editor’s Note: Nils Metzger is a freelance journalist who traveled in Iraq during March 2015 with photographer Andy Spyra, whose images are featured in this story. Assyrians are an ancient Middle ...

Assyria is the ancient region of northern Mesopotamia around the city of Assur, founded around 2600 BC on the banks of the Tigris (today its ruins are in northern Iraq). It was part of the Akkadian ...

Jdeideh, Beirut – When Nino Youkhana, a Christian Assyrian from Syria in his late 30s, heard the news that fighters of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) had descended upon the Assyrian ...

It was Donald Trump's mispronunciation that first caught attention. Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump speaks as Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer of N.Y., listens at the ...

The Kurdistan Region is not a party to the conflict, and its territory must not be used as a target or battlefield for conflicts between other states or parties,” the statement said.