http://www.aina.org/News and Analysis of Assyrian and Assyrian Related Issues Worldwide.en-us10/03/2026On an ordinary August evening in 2014, Mariam was preparing dinner while her husband, Nabil, closed the small repair shop his family had owned for decades.http://www.aina.org/news/20261003175844.htm10/03/2026Nineveh Plain, North Iraq -- As the United States has completed its military withdrawal from Iraq, Joseph Sliwa, a former member of the Iraqi Parliament and head of the Bethnahrin Patriotic Union (HBA), argues that the departure should be viewed less as a security vacuum than as a test of the Iraqi state's ability to consolidate control over the couhttp://www.aina.org/news/20261003123321.htm10/01/2026Beth Zalin, Syria -- Amid Syria's ongoing political and cultural transformations, renewed debate is emerging over the future of the Assyrian language and its place in the country's educational and constitutional systems, with advocates calling for its recognition as an integral part of Syria's national identity and historical heritage.http://www.aina.org/news/20261001134627.htm10/01/2026Worshippers attend Christmas Eve service at the Cathedral of the Holy Apostles, within the complex of the Assyrian Patriarchate, in Arbil, Iraq, on December 24, 2024.http://www.aina.org/news/20261001134235.htm09/29/2026Stockholm -- The Assyrian presence has not been absent from the electoral scene in Sweden. Rather, it has been present, active, and influential, with considerable popularity at the parliamentary and municipal levels.http://www.aina.org/news/20260929115243.htm09/28/2026Amer Abdullah Najm al-Jumaili.A security force detained Amer Abdullah Najm al-Jumaili, a lecturer at the University of Mosul, on Monday after he alleged in a Facebook comment that state land near an ancient Assyrian site in Nineveh province was being handed to influential figures, a source told Shafaq News.http://www.aina.org/news/20260928132155.htm09/28/2026The kings of Assyria made certain that history would remember them. Their victories covered palace walls, their names filled cuneiform tablets, and colossal stone guardians stood at the gateways of cities built to display their power.http://www.aina.org/news/20260928115719.htm09/28/2026Assyrian artefacts originally from Mosul are displayed at Iraq's National Museum in Baghdad on April 4, 2016. ( AFP)Iraq has recovered more than 80 antiquities that had been stolen or smuggled out of the country, the Ministry of Justice announced on Monday, as Baghdad continues a wider legal and diplomatic effort to reclaim cultural objects lost thrhttp://www.aina.org/news/20260928115400.htm09/28/2026New York -- The persecution of Christians in the Middle East, including Syria, has drawn renewed international attention during the 81st session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York.http://www.aina.org/news/20260928115208.htm09/27/2026Chaldean Catholic Archbishop Bashar Matti Warda of Erbil in Iraq. ( ACI MENA)For Christians in Iraq, remaining in their historic homeland increasingly depends not only on security but also on whether younger generations can find meaningful work and build stable lives, according to Chaldean Catholic Archbishop Bashar Warda of Erbil.http://www.aina.org/news/20260927123314.htm09/27/2026When Babylonian and Median forces captured Nineveh in 612 BC, they brought down the capital of a vast empire. The years before the siege had been difficult too.http://www.aina.org/news/20260927115925.htm09/27/2026Johan Mousa and Helena Malki.Södertälje, Sweden -- Two Assyrian educators, Helena Malki and Johan Mousa, have been recognized among the teachers honored by Södertälje Municipality for their contributions to education, student development and the creation of supportive school environments.http://www.aina.org/news/20260927115754.htm09/24/2026Liege, Belgium -- On 4 October, an event will take place in Liège to commemorate the Sayfo Genocide against the Syriac (Aramean-Assyrian-Chaldean), Armenian and Pontic Greek peoples.http://www.aina.org/news/20260924120337.htm09/24/2026Amsterdam -- The genocide of Assyrians is now explicitly included in a Dutch history textbook used in secondary education, marking a milestone in a decades-long campaign by Assyrian organizations to bring the history of the 1915 genocide into Dutch classrooms.http://www.aina.org/news/20260924120048.htm09/24/2026Patriarch Ignatius Youssef III Younan.The patriarch of the Syriac Catholic Church told The Pillar Tuesday that a Vatican cardinal is behind a recent papal law allowing Eastern Catholic Church leaders to be deposed, and behind the efforts in his own Church to see him dismissed from his position.http://www.aina.org/news/20260924115715.htm