August 7th marks Assyrian Martyrs Day, a time when we Kurds should focus on how we can help secure justice for the victims of the crimes committed against this persecuted community. Assyrians, also ...

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Vienna -- In the hushed world of Assyrian (Syriac) manuscripts, where the faint ink of saints, poets, and scholars still murmurs through the centuries, damage is more than decay; it is silence. A tear ...

Assyria is located in north Mesopotamia and spans four countries: In Syria it extends west to the Euphrates river; in Turkey it extends north to Harran, Edessa, Diyarbakir, and Lake Van; in Iran it ...

Back in the day, the Assyrians were one of the Near East’s biggest superpowers, controlling a land mass that stretched from Iran to Egypt. They accomplished this feat with military technologies that ...

Secret, written testimony submitted several days ago to Judge Joseph C. Hutcheson, American co-chairman of the Anglo-American inquiry committee, which was divulged here today, reveals that the ...

In Lord Byron’s 1821 play “Sardanapalus,” the king of the title laments that the glory of his empire will someday fade into oblivion. “Time shall quench full many a people’s records, and a hero’s acts ...