The pictures below were originally published on the Assyrian Hakkari and Bohtan Facebook page by Nicholas al-Jeelo, who also identified and captioned each photo. The pictures below are divided into ...

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As the Turkish war against Kurdish militants of PKK continues, many Assyrian villages are constantly under the Turkish forces bombardments. Our contributor from Dohuk, Naseem Sadiq interviewed ...

Moreover, historically Assyrian lands and villages are being confiscated often through the connivance or acquiescence of local ruling personnel. With a rapidly deteriorating situation in Northern Iraq ...

A Turkish airstrike on July 6 ignited agricultural fields of Assyrian villages in the Nahla Valley of northern Iraq. As flames burned for hours at night and well into the next day, authorities never ...

In early 2015, Islamic State fighters swept into 35 towns in northern Syria and kidnapped men, women and children of the sect that traces its origins to the earliest days of Christianity A map shows ...

Yesterday, we learned that three Christians captured from Assyrian villages in Syria last February were executed by ISIS on September 23 in a desert area, somewhere in the “Caliphate,” and ...

to serve as the new capital of the Assyrian Empire around 700 BCE. The settlement is located at the site of the present-day village of Khorsabad in northern Iraq. Sargon II was unexpectedly killed ...