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 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 ...

Amsterdam -- The genocide of Assyrians is now explicitly included in a Dutch history textbook used in secondary education, marking a milestone in a decades-long campaign by Assyrian organizations to ...

Patriarch Ignatius Youssef III Younan. The patriarch of the Syriac Catholic Church told The Pillar Tuesday that a Vatican cardinal is behind a recent papal law allowing Eastern Catholic Church leaders ...

A detailed architectural drawing held against the ancient fortification at Sardis, documenting the surviving brickwork and different sections of the wall. (İHA) The ancient Lydians are remembered for ...

Rijsen, Netherlands -- The first thing heard on a Sunday morning at the Syriac Orthodox Church of St. Ignatius Nurono is not Dutch. It is Syriac, part of the Aramaic language family. This ancient ...

Excavated structures at Nimrud, northern Iraq. (Wikimedia Commons) What the world knows about the Assyrian empire, it mostly knows from kings. The palace reliefs and the royal inscriptions that shaped ...