Donald Trump’s appointment of Assyrian-American Mark Savaya as Special Envoy to Iraq has led some to question whether it is connected to the sudden decision by Iran-aligned forces to reinstate the Nineveh Plain Protection Units (NPU).
Reports from Iraq claim that the Assyrian NPU force has been reinstated in the Nineveh Plain Region, effectively eliminating the role of Kataib Babiliyoun in the area.
While 19 candidates are competing for the five quota seats, Assyrian political parties are officially boycotting the elections in protest against the Iraqi government’s refusal to close a loophole that allows non-Assyrian groups to exploit their representation.
Washington has empowered an ethno-nationalist project that marginalizes the indigenous population and enforces the kind of oppression the U.S. claims to oppose," an Assyrian political figure has argued.
Increased security and better economic opportunities, among other factors, could more than quadruple the Assyrian population of the Tur Abdin Region, predicts the Assyrian analyst Ilhan Aydin.
Two leading Assyrian organizations, the Assyrian Democratic Organization and The Assyrian Monitor for Human Rights, have denounced and condemned the closure of Assyrian schools in northeast Syria's Gozarto Region by Kurdish militants.
A Turkish MP from a party with Islamic ideology has posed a question to the vice president asking why the construction of a mosque in the Assyrian village of Zaz has been stopped.
