Assyrian political parties are sounding the alarm over Kurdish plans to grab land areas belonging to the Assyrian village of Bakhetme in Northern Iraq.
Noor Matti, co-founder of the Shlama Foundation, has been named Assyria Post’s Assyrian of the Year 2025 in recognition of his unwavering commitment to improving lives in Assyria.
The systematic marginalization of Assyrians in northern Iraq was openly broadcast when a Kurdish television channel aired a report on land-grabbing of Assyrian lands, while simultaneously portraying Assyrians as “Christian Kurds,” reflecting a broader pattern of ethnic denial.
The killing of Assyrian colonel Zaid Jirjis was not motivated by sectarianism or terrorism but personal disputes, according to Iraq's ministry of interior.
Dozens of Assyrian graves were vandalized in Shaqlawa, near Erbil, in mid December, marking the latest incident in a string of Kurdish attacks against Assyrian cemeteries and churches in northern Iraq.
Murad Ismael, newly elected as the first independent Yazidi MP in Iraq, is calling for formal recognition of Yazidis as a distinct ethnicity, challenging Kurdish efforts to label the community “Yazidi-Kurds.”
Two new attacks on Assyrian sites in the KRG, vandalized graves in Armota and a church stoned in Deralok, have renewed concerns over rising hostility and years of impunity for crimes targeting Assyrians.
In a bizarre turn of events, an Assyrian businessman in Kurdish-ruled Northern Iraq watched his small restaurant being bulldozed on the orders of local authorities–only to be promised its return by a 25-year-old member of the ruling Barzani clan.
The “New Midyat Project,” a housing development promoted as a neighborhood for diaspora Assyrians, is drawing criticism from Assyrians who say it was planned without their input and fails to reflect their needs or priorities.
