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 ...

The Kurds, one of the world’s largest populations without a state of their own, have been feeling some control over their lives and want to make that permanent with a new government in power.

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.

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 ...

Kurdish forces have since rapidly withdrawn from several contested cities and towns, leaving Iraqi forces and their Shia militia allies in charge.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 ...

Mothers can now give children Kurdish names. The Kurdish language is taught in schools. The new year, Nowruz, can be celebrated openly. The Kurds, one of the world’s largest populations without ...

QAMISHLI, Syria — Kurds in Syria were marginalized during five decades of Assad family rule, with many denied citizenship and wrongly described as Arabs. Now they are seizing the chance during ...