By John Burger
Once more, the world's attention is being drawn toward Lebanon, a country that has suffered so much in recent years. Beginning on Monday, Israeli airstrikes targeted the Iran-backed militia Hezbollah, killing hundreds of people.
By John-Paul Stonard
In a recent talk at the British Museum (BM), sitting between the two great Assyrian lamassu from Khorsabad, the Turkish writer Elif Shafak spoke about the role fiction can play in shedding light on otherwise forgotten moments of personal and historical trauma.
By Koray Erdogan
Long before Rome, the Sumerians, Babylonians, and Assyrians were pioneering scent-making. Babylon was the fragrance production hub for eastern empires, with mimosa, lily, rose, and saffron being the most commonly produced scents. The Sumerians particularly favored rose and rosewater. For the Assyrians, lilies held special significance.
By A. Stampoultzidis et. al.
The Neo-Assyrian empire ofers a clear example of the key relationship between imperial power and water management. Irrigated landscapes under the direct impulse of the Assyrian state were important during its imperial heydays of the late 9th to 7th centuries BC.
By Joe Lipuma
August marked the 10th anniversary of the ISIS genocide perpetrated on the Christians, and other minority communities, of Northern Iraq. For the Christians there, this occurred primarily in the Nineveh Plain, and in nearby cities such as Mosul.
By Dalya Alberge
An ancient Assyrian artefact stolen from one of the world's most significant archaeological sites has been returned to Iraq after 22 years of storage by police in London. The British Museum played a pivotal role in returning the 9th-century BC carved panel.
By Natasha Dado
Donald Trump's senior adviser Alina Habba has told members of Michigan's large Chaldean community that they have the voting power to flip the battleground state in the former president's favour on November 5. Winning Michigan is crucial for Mr Trump or his opponent Vice President Kamala Harris as they seek the White House, and the Chaldean American vote could help determine the outcome.
On Sunday, the Assyrian Democratic Movement in Kirkuk expressed its astonishment over new orders stripping the Christian community of the Deputy Governor for Administrative Affairs position within the new local government structure.
On Saturday, the Chaldean Catholic Church in Iraq and the world announced that its Cardinal received a phone call from a lawyer for former US President Donald Trump. The church stated, "On Friday, Cardinal Louis Raphael Sako received a call from Alina Habba, Trump's attorney and campaign advisor, who is of Chaldean Iraqi descent.
By Marguerite de Lasa
Father Amar Agag, a 38-year-old married man and father of three, was ordained as a priest in the Chaldean Catholic Church in France. While this tradition is common in the church's countries of origin in the Middle East, the ordination of married men among Eastern Catholic communities in the diaspora was authorized by Rome only in 2014.
By Ashkan Khosropour
Hannibal Youssef spoke through his music when he lived in Tehran -- where whispers of Iran's ancient history can still be heard among all the modern noise. Youssef, an Assyrian musician and orchestra performer from Iran, founded the Massy Ensemble and has produced concerts ranging from folk, fusion to church music.
By Mustafa Goran
The Feast of the Cross has brought Assyrian, Chaldean, and Syriac Christians together from different churches throughout Iraq and the Kurdistan Region. Hundreds of Christians flocked to Saint John the Baptist Assyrian Church of the East in the predominantly-Christian district of Ainkawa in Erbil to celebrate one of the most important commemorations in Christian liturgical calendar.