Assyrian International News Agency

AINA and Assyrians Between Memory, Diaspora and Future

For the Assyrians it was a grandly tragic time. The militias, led by highly skilled guerrilla leaders such as Agha Petros, ...
AINA

The Assyrian Language in Iraq: An Identity Passed Down Through Generations

The Assyrian language is one of the oldest living Semitic languages and forms the cornerstone of the identity of the Assyrian people. In Iraq, the government of the Kurdistan Region in Iraq (KRI) has ...
Hartford Courant

A VOICE FOR AN IRAQI MINORITY

Growing up in Iran, Sharokin Betgevargiz remembers diving into ditches at the sound of approaching MiGs during the Iran/Iraq War. In the apartment she shared with her parents in a Tehran suburb, ...
Ecoticias

A carved monument tied to Assyrian King Ashurbanipal has been recovered at Bab Shamash, with royal images and cuneiform writing preserved on the stone stele

A carved monument from Assyrian King Ashurbanipal's time has surfaced at Bab Shamash, with a royal image and cuneiform ...

Archaeologists in Iraq unearthed a rare 2,600-year-old Assyrian stele of King Ashurbanipal at Nineveh’s Shamash Gate, nearly a decade after ISIS damaged the ancient city

A rare 2,600-year-old Assyrian monument has been found at the ancient city of Nineveh in Iraq. The discovery is a major success for an area where Islamic State militants (ISIS) deliberately destroyed ...