The French documentary Return to Babylon will be screened for Australian audiences at a cinema in Wetherill Park, Sydney, on ...

The Assyrian Church of the East doesn't have a resident bishop, so Mar Awa was welcomed by the Archbishop of Australia, New ...

Bet Zalin, North and East Syria -- A century ago, a city was built in the far northeastern corner of Syria, at the junction of the borders with Turkey and Iraq. What began as a small settlement on the ...

Nohadra, Iraq -- The Simele massacre remains an open wound in the collective memory of the Chaldean--Syriac--Assyrian people. Since 1933, the tragedy has lived on in the hearts of descendants who hold ...

The wave of exclusions has sparked sharp criticism from Christian activists, who denounced the decisions as a form of "systematic exclusion" that threatens the political representation of Iraq's ...

The shrine in Iraq's northern Nineveh Plains will be the seventh worldwide dedicated to Mary, Mother of Persecuted Christians ...

Younger generations are also reclaiming the tradition. "Every stitch carries a memory and a hope," says Erbil craftswoman Jacqueline Mansour. Sandra Shamoun, from Shaqlawa, says wearing the costume ...

But in early August 10 years ago, these Muslim raiders were different. On Aug. 6, 2015, the Islamic State took the nearby ...

The 'Warka Mask,' a Sumerian artifact from 3100 B.C., was looted from the National Museum of Iraq in the final days of Saddam Hussein's regime. It was later found buried in someone's backyard (Samir ...

The Christian community in Tang China managed to survive for as long as the emperors were tolerant of other religions. That changed during the rule of the emperor Wuzong (841-846 CE), who banned all ...

The Tombs of the Assyrian Queens Yaba, Banitu, and Atalia The Royal Tomb of Nimrud were first discovered in April of 1989 by an expedition of the Iraqi Department of Antiquities and Heritage. The Tomb ...