Assyrians continue to face both external pressures and internal divisions in Iraq, a senior member of the Assyrian Democratic Movement (ADM) said in a recent interview, emphasizing that the movement remains steadfast.
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.
Assyrian organisations in Australia have slammed the federal government over reports that a group of Australian Muslim women who went to live under the so-called Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) rule have returned to the country.
The Assyrian Democratic Organization (ADO) has objected to the Syrian government’s decision to exclude the Assyrian New Year and the Kurdish New Year from the country’s list of public holidays.
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.
The Kurdish group in control of northeast Syria's Gozarto Region has once again closed down Assyrian schools by force in an attempt to impose its own curriculum.
