A new study has found that Turkey's consulate in Jerusalem operates from a property owned not by Turkey, but by the Syriac church, a community whose members were among the victims of Ottoman-era massacres more than a century ago. The finding, published by the Jerusalem Center for Applied Policy, emerged just after the Israeli government recognized the Armenian genocide.
Archaeologists in Iraq's Nineveh province have announced the discovery of a rare Assyrian stele dating to the reign of King Ashurbanipal, shedding new light on the ancient capital's urban achievements nearly 2,600 years ago.
Residents of the Assyrian village of Kashkawa in the Nahla Valley have issued a public appeal calling for immediate intervention after Kurdish settlers have once again cultivated disputed village lands despite court rulings ordering the encroachments to be removed.
Israel's government unanimously approved Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar's proposal on Sunday, June 28, 2026, to officially recognize the Armenian Genocide perpetrated by the Ottoman Empire during and after World War I. The decision also draws attention to parallel atrocities committed against Greeks (including Pontic and Anatolian Greeks) and Assyrians in the same period.
Did the fall of Nineveh in 612 BCE mark the end of Assyria? A new interdisciplinary study by the Assyrian-Australian Daniel Sada argues that the contemporary Persian evidence tells a fundamentally different story.
As discussions continue over the drafting of Syria's future constitution, advocates for the country's indigenous Assyrian community are renewing calls for explicit legal protections for the Assyrian language, arguing that broad constitutional commitments alone are insufficient to preserve one of the world's oldest living languages.