Tag: Assyria

BEIRUT, LEBANON (4:15 P.M.) - The Assyrian-led Syriac Military Council was recently filmed by RT Arabic at the contact lines in the northern countryside of Al-Hasakah. In the short video, ...

BEIRUT, LEBANON (9:15 A.M.) - Assyrians in Sweden are facing threats of violence from a number of people, the Syriac National Federation told the Swedish newspaper Samhällsnytt this week. On Monday, ...

BEIRUT, LEBANON (11:12 P.M.) - The Ashti refugee camp near Erbil is home to around 5,000 Christian families. They fled and left their homes once ISIS became a threat. The ...

Turkish authorities have removed an Assyrian sculpture of a mythological winged bull known as Lamassu, from the front of a local council building in Diyarbakir, home to many of Turkey's ...

(AFP) Iraqi Christians held a Christmas Eve service in a town near Mosul on Saturday for the first time since the Iraqi army and the popular mobilization forces as well ...

DAMASCUS, SYRIA (3:00 P.M.) - The Iraqi Armed Forces have officially liberated the entire Nineveh Plains region of northwestern Iraq after a month long offensive to expel the so-called "Islamic ...

(AFP) The Iraqi military said Sunday that soldiers south of Mosul have recaptured the Nimrud area, home to the site of an ancient Assyrian city that was blown up by the ...

(AFP) The battle for Iraq’s second city Mosul neared the remains of ancient Nimrud on Thursday, the military said. Troops and volunteer fighters were advancing on two villages held by ...

As operations to retake the militant-held city of Mosul ramp up, Iraqi Christians displaced from the area by the Islamic State group say that even if the militants are defeated ...

When ISIS captured Tal Ajaja, one of Syria’s most important Assyrian-era sites, they discovered previously unknown millennia-old statues and cuneiform tablets, and then they destroyed them. The terrorist group, which ...