Although Turkey is a member of the Council of Europe, its linguistic policies have led to the eradication of many native ...

The story of disappearing Iraqi Christianity cannot begin in 2014. Christians had already been leaving for years. Following ...

The United States completed the withdrawal of its remaining forces from Iraq on 30 September, ending a military mission that ...

The statement said that Mayor Türkan Kayir was expelled from the Assyrian organizations of which she was a member and from the DEM Party. She remained politically independent before joining the ruling ...

Earlier this year, local courts rejected the requests of Assyrian citizens, whose roots extend from Tur Abdin to Switzerland, who sought to adopt the surname "Gabriel." After the Turkish Language ...

(AINA) -- The Simmele (ܣܡܠܐ) Massacre of Assyrians occurred between August 7 and August 11, 1933, in the town of Simmele, North Iraq, and its surroundings. It was carried out by the Iraqi Army, led by ...

A little over a century ago, in his 1920 encyclical Principi Apostolorum Petro, Pope Benedict XV declared the 4th century poet, theologian, and writer, Saint Ephrem the Syrian, the Deacon of Edessa, ...

Growing unease is spreading among Syria's Christian communities as reports of targeted violence against civilians multiply across several regions. Activists warn that "security complacency" and ...

Wall Relief of Horse Archers, Neo-Assyrian 865-860 BC. (British Museum) A horse archer is a cavalryman armed with a bow who can shoot while riding on the back of a horse. This style of warfare appears ...

Left: Tsar Nicholas II, the last reigning Emperor of Russia, photographed in 1912. Centre: Detail from a mosaic of Marco Polo, displayed in Genoa's Palazzo Doria-Tursi. Right: Detail from a sculpted ...

Patriarch 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 ...

One of my earliest memories is sitting on my mother's lap, watching a football match. Seeing a goal hit the back of the net at an angle only Pythagoras would know, and being submerged in raucous roars ...