Two young Assyrians sit next to the fence of a huge statue of the Holy Virgin Mary in Koysinjaq, Iraqi Kurdistan, in 2015. (Christiaan Triebert/Shutterstock) August 7th marks Assyrian Martyrs Day, a ...

In his new book “Assyria: The Rise and Fall of the World’s First Empire” (Basic Books), Yale professor Eckart Frahm offers a comprehensive history of the ancient civilization (circa 2025 BCE to 609 ...

On Monday, Pope Francis ended his trip to Iraq where he preached a message of peace and religious tolerance over a four-day period. In this first-ever visit by a pope to the country, the pontiff ...

From the Assyrian Cultural Foundation's website. (AINA) -- The Assyrian Arts Institute (AAI) is an organization founded by Nora Betyousef Lacey in 2017 and claims to support Assyrian arts. AAI has ...

This article is written by Saman Daoud. It is part of a series examining free expression and information access in civic spaces across six language communities in the MENA region. These challenges ...

Matthew Nazari, a recent graduate of Harvard University and a proud Assyrian, has dealt with the repercussions of erasure firsthand. Nazari recounted his inability to find suray language resources ...

Back in the day, the Assyrians were one of the Near East’s biggest superpowers, controlling a land mass that stretched from Iran to Egypt. They accomplished this feat with military technologies that ...

PHOENIX (AP) — It was Donald Trump's mispronunciation that first caught attention. “Also, we have many Asur-Asians in our room,” Trump said at a weekend rally in Prescott Valley, Arizona. “We have ...

Secret, written testimony submitted several days ago to Judge Joseph C. Hutcheson, American co-chairman of the Anglo-American inquiry committee, which was divulged here today, reveals that the ...

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New York: Basic Hachette, 2024. Pp. xx, 508+. Illus., maps, table, notes, index. $22.99 paper. ISBN: 1541605152 The Bad Boys of the Old Testament. Most of us are familiar with the later Assyrians as ...