The Assyrians were drawn into the conflict following successive massacres against the civilian population by forces of the Ottoman Empire consisting of Turks and Kurds. As a direct result of the ...

This is an excerpt from my book The History of the Kurdish Settlement in Assyria. This article will attempt to disprove claims of a substantial presence of the Kurdish people in Mesopotamia prior to ...

A recurring but often overlooked problem in the Middle East is the oppression of Assyrians by Kurds. Kurdish oppression of ...

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 ...

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Ninab Yousif Toma, a political bureau member of the Assyrian Democratic Movement (ADM), condemned the regional government in northern Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdish region and asked Iraqi federal ...

As the Kurdistan region parliament elections approach, Assyrian politicians say they are finding it very hard to have a real chance to win a seat in the parliament. In this interview, Naseem Sadiq ...

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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 ...

Ninab Yousif Toma, a political bureau member of the Assyrian Democratic Movement (ADM), condemned the regional government in northern Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdish region and asked Iraqi ...