Ilham Ahmed, Co-Chair of Foreign Relations for the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES), and Nazira Goreya, Secretary of the Syriac Union Party (SUP) and AANES's Syriac representative, accompanied by Abdelkarim Omar, AANES's European representative, and Kerim Kamar, AANES's representative in France, were invited to meetings at the French Senate and the National Assembly on 17...
(VOA) -- Syria's top diplomat says the country has gained freedom while managing to avoid another civil war, but observers point to major challenges ahead, such as the dire economy, uncertain security, and including Syria's diverse population in decision-making and governance.
Ten years ago, the world witnessed a tragic moment as Daesh, a terrorist organization, filmed the destruction of priceless artifacts inside the Mosul Museum. This was part of a broader campaign to erase Mosul's rich cultural heritage, including the ancient city of Nimrud and the Great Mosque of al-Nuri.
Ealing, England -- The opening of St Mary's Cathedral on Saturday (15) brought together more than 500 members of the Assyrian Church of the East Community. Formerly known as St James' Church, it stood unused in St James' Avenue, West Ealing, for eight years following its closure.
It's March 27 669BC, and night has fallen over Nineveh, the Assyrian capital. On the temple roof, Balasi, chief astrologer to king Esarhaddon, is scanning the sky. An adviser has told the king that Venus is visible, which in Assyrian cosmology is a good thing, portending good rain, rich harvests and peace.
The Patriarch of the Syriac Orthodox Church Mor Ignatius Aphrem II said that he met with the president of the Kurdistan Region on Friday to get some advice about developments in Syria. President Nechirvan Barzani "is a person who understands the nature of the area there and who knows a lot about Syria.
Iraq's Assyrian and Chaldean Christians on Thursday reiterated their calls for a special voting status during the next federal and regional elections to prevent the minority vote from being "hijacked." Christians in Iraq and the Kurdistan Region have long requested special voting for the minority to prevent external, well-established parties from interfering in the minority quota, but their...
On Thursday, the Christian Alliance, a coalition of eight parties, issued a memorandum to five Iraqi official bodies, outlining several key demands aimed at addressing the concerns of the country's diminishing Christian communities.
Iraq's foreign minister announced on Tuesday the return of various artifacts and textured paintings from Japan and Switzerland. Minister Fuad Hussein, speaking from the Iraqi National Museum in Baghdad, stated that the recovered items include "the statue of the sun god, Maran Shamash, and rare murals from the 8th century B.C.
When, in the mid-1990s, Jens Petzold first arrived in Syria, it was only supposed to be a temporary stop on his journey eastward from his native Switzerland. An agnostic and spiritual seeker, his real goal was East Asia, where he hoped to explore Taoism and Zen Buddhism. While in Syria, Petzold heard talk of the desert Monastery of Mar Musa.
(AINA) -- Professor Mikhail Davidov has died at the age of 77 in Moscow. Dr. Davidov was an oncology surgeon and a member of the the Russian Academy of Sciences. He was born on October 11, 1947 in the Ukrainian city of Konotop, Sumy region, a descendant of Assyrian refugees from the Gawar region in southeast Turkey.
In November, senior communication major Giselle George and sophomore international relations major Adam Mikhail launched the long-awaited Middle East and North African Student Association (MENA) called Sawa, which means "together" in Arabic.
(AINA) -- Professor Mikhail Davidov has died at the age of 77 in Moscow. Dr. Davidov was an oncology surgeon and a member of the the Russian Academy of Sciences. He was born on October 11, 1947 in the Ukrainian city of Konotop, Sumy region, a descendant of Assyrian refugees from the Gawar region in southeast Turkey.
(AINA) -- A video of Assyrian nuns at a hockey game in Detroit has gone viral. Detroit is home to nearly 100,000 Assyrians, most of whom are Roman Catholic (Chaldeans). ...
(AINA) -- The Assyrian Arts Institute (AAI) is an organization founded by Nora Betyousef Lacey in 2017 and claims to support Assyrian arts. AAI has sponsored a few events since its founding, including an Assyrian women's choir.
(AINA) -- On July 12 Iraqi president Abdul Latif Rashid repealed the decree recognizing the appointment of Cardinal Louis Raphael Sako as head of the Chaldean Catholic Church and which appointed him to the office of the waqf (وقف), the endowment which oversees all church property. The details of the events leading up to this action are exhaustively covered in this report by MEMRI.
(AINA) -- 'Syria is free'; thus screamed the Syrians as they celebrated the tumbling down of the criminal regime during a whole week. Thousands, even millions, of Syrians strolled the streets of the entire major cities of Syria. They were from all societal segments, strata, trends, genders, religious beliefs and non-religious ones, convictions, sects, confessions, parties, and orientations.
(AINA) -- The collapse of the Syrian regime has added yet another chapter to the cycle of deep crises that perpetually plague the Middle East. Yet, these devastations increasingly render ancient peoples, burdened by the weight of historical memory, invisible.
It's March 27 669BC, and night has fallen over Nineveh, the Assyrian capital. On the temple roof, Balasi, chief astrologer to king Esarhaddon, is scanning the sky. An adviser has told the king that Venus is visible, which in Assyrian cosmology is a good thing, portending good rain, rich harvests and peace.
In November, senior communication major Giselle George and sophomore international relations major Adam Mikhail launched the long-awaited Middle East and North African Student Association (MENA) called Sawa, which means "together" in Arabic.