56 years have passed, during which the country of Iraq has seen numerous successive governments and regimes that have claimed ...

Situated within the ruins of Esarhaddon's throne hall at the Nabi Yunus site in Mosul, part of ancient Nineveh, the colossal ...

More than 2,500 years ago, the Assyrians in Nineveh built the first great empire in human history. Excelling in science, engineering and warfare, they were the beginnings of modern civilization. But ...

Beneath layers of earth in the ancient Assyrian capital of Nineveh, a team of archaeologists from Heidelberg University has uncovered one of the most significant finds in decades in the region. The ...

Since its first excavation in 1992, the remarkably well-preserved lamassu sculpture has survived multiple attacks on cultural heritage in the region. The excavation was announced by Iraqi authorities ...

In northern Iraq, there is a city named Baghdeda, meaning "house of youth." The name comes from Iraq's indigenous people—the Assyrians. We have called it that for thousands of years. After migrating ...

On June 18, Iraq's President Abdul Latif Rashid presided over a ceremony in Baghdad Palace to receive an Assyrian artifact from the 8th century BCE, which had been returned to Iraq by the Italian ...

Assyrian Americans held a vigil Saturday in north suburban Morton Grove to honor the victims of a wedding fire in their Iraqi homeland that killed more than 100 people, with the death count still ...

As developments in Iraq constrain U.S. policy options, Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr.'s approach ["A Plan to Hold Iraq Together," op-ed, Aug. 24] is fair and pragmatic. Allowing each ethnic group to ...