The statement said that Mayor Türkan Kayir was expelled from the Assyrian organizations of which she was a member and from the DEM Party. She remained politically independent before joining the ruling ...

Earlier this year, local courts rejected the requests of Assyrian citizens, whose roots extend from Tur Abdin to Switzerland, who sought to adopt the surname "Gabriel." After the Turkish Language ...

The story of disappearing Iraqi Christianity cannot begin in 2014. Christians had already been leaving for years. Following ...

The United States completed the withdrawal of its remaining forces from Iraq on 30 September, ending a military mission that ...

Amid Syria's ongoing political and cultural transformations, renewed debate is emerging over the future of the Assyrian language and its place in the country's educational and constitutional systems, ...

On a Sunday morning somewhere in the Middle East, an old church bell still rings. It may sound across a neighborhood in ...

In an appeal to Prime Minister Ali Faleh al-Zaidi, the family said al-Jumaili was detained for refusing to sign documents ...

The University of Chicago's Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures, which later published the tombs with Iraq's State Board of Antiquities and Heritage, concluded that their elaborate gold ...

New York -- The persecution of Christians in the Middle East, including Syria, has drawn renewed international attention during the 81st session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York.

Chaldean Catholic Archbishop Bashar Matti Warda of Erbil in Iraq. (ACI MENA) For Christians in Iraq, remaining in their historic homeland increasingly depends not only on security but also on whether ...

In 2019, Ashish Sinha and colleagues analysed a stalagmite from Kuna Ba Cave in northern Iraq. Stalagmites grow as mineral-rich water drips onto a cave floor. Changes in the layers and their chemistry ...