In December 2024, Mohammed was surprised by an attempt to break the front door of the building he lives in, in Qamishli, by a military force consisting of three pickup trucks belonging to the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF).
Hungarian government contributes 60 million forints (EUR 145,000) for refurbishing Syriac Orthodox Monastery Tristan Azbej, the state secretary for aiding persecuted Christians and the head of the Hungary Helps programme, on Monday noted that the Hungarian government has contributed 60 million forints (EUR 145,000) to the refurbishment of the Syriac Orthodox Monastery of Saint Mark.
Organisations representing the Assyrian-Syriac people in North-East Syria staged a demonstration in Qamishlo city. The demonstration was organised by the Syriac Union Party under the slogan 'Securing our national and religious rights in a democratic, multilateral and decentralised Syria is the guarantee of our continued existence' and saw the participation of political and intellectual figures in...
Last autumn, I took my parents on a drive from Ganzantiep in the south of Turkey to Kars in the north east. It is a culturally rich area of the world with ruins of countless civilisations, from pre-Pottery Neolithic to Ottoman. One area and its people stand out in my memory, however: the Assyrians.
In commemoration of Christ's birth, millions of Christians have made a pilgrimage to the "Holy Land" throughout the years. This last Christmas season, of course, was different, with the war raging in the Middle East. With this multifront conflict involving Israel and neighboring countries hosting Islamist terrorists, the region's Christian minorities likely experienced the brunt of the hardships.
Barsoum Barsoum, the advisor at the Syriac Research Center, emphasized the need for the social contract to be part of Syria's constitution. He rejected the imposition of a singular identity on Syria, stating, "There is a need for joint programs to build a democratic Syria.