What I did not expect to find was something far more remarkable: a living ecosystem devoted to preserving the Syriac language ...

The Archbishop of Perth Timothy Costelloe SDB, president of the Australian Catholic Bishops' Conference of which Nona was a ...

"We are not Arabs, nor Kurds, nor Turkmen -- we are Assyrians, descendants of an ancient civilization," he says with evident ...

References to "blood money" appear in letters, treaties, legal documents, and debt contracts under the term "damum." The ...

The following poem from the collection is an example of how Faiq used poetry as a means of collective encouragement. The poem ...

Mamo, a Assyrian engineer with years of experience in state institutions, has been appointed head of the Water Resources ...

Although the Christian population of Iraq has declined dramatically this century, to below one per cent of the population, five of the 26-member national football squad that qualified for the ...

The Arabic letter "n" (inside red circle), signifying "Nasrani" (Christian), on an Assyrian home in Mosul. (AINA) -- The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) captured the city of Mosul, Iraq on June ...

The Assyrian Green Church in Tikrit, Iraq, built in the 7th century, which was destroyed by ISIS. (AINA) -- According to a report by BBC Arabic, Islamists in Tikrit have destroyed The Assyrian Green ...

Every work dealing with the history of beer, it seems, starts out talking blithely about the Sumerians of ancient Mesopotamia as the first brewers, the inventors of beer, some eight to ten thousand ...

Iraq's cultural authorities have revealed a discovery that could redefine the scale of Assyrian art: a six-meter-tall winged bull, or lamassu, recently uncovered in Mosul. The find, announced by ...

Growing unease is spreading among Syria's Christian communities as reports of targeted violence against civilians multiply across several regions. Activists warn that "security complacency" and ...