http://www.aina.org/News and Analysis of Assyrian and Assyrian Related Issues Worldwide.en-us08/08/2026The 93rd anniversary of the Simmele Massacre has been marked not only by commemorative events and statements from Assyrian institutions, churches and political parties in Iraq and the diaspora, but also by growing calls from Iraqi officials for the massacre formal recognition.http://www.aina.org/news/20260808123215.htm08/07/2026A Simmele Massacre plaque in north Iraq.The Assyrians are among the oldest settled peoples of Beth Nahrin (Mesopotamia) and among the first to embrace Christianity.http://www.aina.org/news/20260807134231.htm08/07/2026His Holiness Mar Awa III, Catholicos-Patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East.His Holiness Mar Awa III, Catholicos-Patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East, made his first-ever visit to Romania from August 3 to 7.http://www.aina.org/news/20260807125903.htm08/07/2026Kurdistan Region President Nechirvan Barzani. ( Kurdistan Region Presidency)Kurdistan Region President Nechirvan Barzani on Friday paid tribute to the victims of the 1933 Simmele massacre on the 93rd anniversary of Assyrian Martyrs' Day, asserting that the Region will remain "a shared homeland" for all its communities.http://www.aina.org/news/20260807125544.htm08/06/2026Along­side those early account­ing sys­tems, the Meso­pot­ami­ans developed the world's first spread­sheets, as well as soph­ist­ic­ated bank­ing sys­tems.http://www.aina.org/ata/20260806193922.htm08/06/2026Baghdad -- An Iraqi Christian woman has successfully challenged her official religious classification after being registered as a Muslim in government records.http://www.aina.org/news/20260806133130.htm08/06/2026Assyrian refugees on a wagon moving to a newly constructed village on the Khabur River in Syria. ( John D. Whiting/Matson (G. Eric and Edith) collection at the Library of Congress on Wikimedia Commons)I was 11 years old the first time I was told Assyrians don't exist by a friend.http://www.aina.org/news/20260806003158.htm08/06/2026Jilu Assyrians crossing the Asadabad Pass towards Baqubah, 1918. ( Wikipedia )Every year on 7 August, Assyrians around the world commemorate one of the darkest chapters in their history.http://www.aina.org/news/20260806002705.htm08/05/2026Kurdish forces blockade Assyrian villages in north Iraq.(AINA) -- For decades, the world has heard repeated claims that northern Iraq is a region of stability, security, and coexistence.http://www.aina.org/guesteds/20260805195834.htm08/05/2026Three Christian political parties on Wednesday called on Prime Minister Ali Al-Zaidi and Nineveh Governor Abdul Qader Al-Dakhil to halt ongoing land distribution measures in the Nineveh Plains, a historic homeland for several of Iraq's Christian communities, warning they could lead to demographic change in the area.http://www.aina.org/news/20260805103237.htm08/05/2026More than 2,500 years after the fall of the Assyrian Empire, archaeological discoveries continue to reveal new details about its powerful kings and the grandeur of its capital.http://www.aina.org/news/20260805103107.htm08/04/2026President Masoud Barzani (right) during his meeting with His Beatitude Patriarch Mar Polis III Nona, Patriarch of the Chaldean Church in Iraq and the world, Aug.http://www.aina.org/news/20260804140406.htm08/04/2026A dispute over the registration of around 1,800 residential plots in the Christian-majority town of Tel Kaif in Iraq's northern Nineveh province has reached Baghdad, with Christian lawmakers in the federal parliament demanding a halt to the process, arguing the land is being distributed to Arab citizens in violation of the constitution.http://www.aina.org/news/20260804140210.htm08/04/2026Bucharest -- The 14th World Congress of Syriac [modern Assyrian] Studies, also called Symposium Syriacum, opened on Monday at the Palace of Parliament in Bucharest, Romania, bringing together more than 400 scholars and specialists from 33 countries and 176 universities to examine the history, language, theology, and cultural heritage of one of the whttp://www.aina.org/news/20260804115318.htm08/03/2026On August 3, 2014, the world awoke to one of the most horrific crimes in modern Iraqi history, when the Islamic State (ISIS) terrorist organization overran the district of Sinjar and its surrounding areas, committing atrocious crimes against the Yezidi community.http://www.aina.org/news/20260803130029.htm