The Assyrians were drawn into the conflict following successive massacres against the civilian population by forces of the Ottoman Empire consisting of Turks and Kurds. As a direct result of the ...

This is an excerpt from my book The History of the Kurdish Settlement in Assyria. This article will attempt to disprove claims of a substantial presence of the Kurdish people in Mesopotamia prior to ...

Some of them are practically the same as ISIS. Meanwhile, you have people like the Kurds, the Assyrians, Sunni Arabs, which are also much less religious.”For now, HTS and its Islamist allies are ...

The Anfal genocide, one of modern history's darkest chapters, claimed 182,000 Kurdish, Assyrian, Shabak, Turkman, Yazidi, and Mandean lives and destroyed 4,500 villages.

Ibn Khaldun famously said, “Geography is destiny.” Geography shapes the decisions of statesmen and generals. This principle is exemplified by the importance of the Golan Heights and Mount Hermon.

Kurdish forces have since rapidly withdrawn from several contested cities and towns, leaving Iraqi forces and their Shia militia allies in charge. Listen to this political debate and analysis with ...

As the Kurdistan region parliament elections approach, Assyrian politicians say they are finding it very hard to have a real chance to win a seat in the parliament. In this interview, Naseem Sadiq ...