The UNPO expresses grave concern over the deteriorating situation facing Assyrian communities in Iraq and Syria, as ...

Sabri Atman, Assyrian Genocide scholar. BOSTON -- Exploiting an opportune moment during World War I, the Ottoman government carried out its intent to eliminate the empire's Christian elements.

This article is an excerpt from a book titled The Assyrian Flag. It is in the form of an extensive interview that Mr. Homer Abramian, the chief editor of Kirkha (an Assyrian periodical published in ...

A 3,000-year-old relief reveals how Assyrian divers used stealth tactics and flotation devices to wage silent river warfare.

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. As I watched them, I asked myself: How, 2,633 years after the fall of ...

The modern Assyrians are descendants of a people who date back nearly 7,000 years to before the rise of the ancient Mesopotamian civilizations in the Near East. They were among the first Christians, ...

Rabban Hormizd Monastery in the town of Alqosh, which has been the site of recent tensions due to the forced removal of its elected Assyrian mayor Fayez Abed Jawahreh and his replacement with a ...

In Lord Byron’s 1821 play “Sardanapalus,” the king of the title laments that the glory of his empire will someday fade into oblivion. “Time shall quench full many a people’s records, and a hero’s acts ...

They came before dawn, under the cover of darkness. Overpowering and killing three village guards, they took hundreds of captives — men, women and children, from the elderly to the very young. Then ...

The Assyrian Language College and for the last 10 years has opened its doors to young Assyrians as well as older adults to ...