KRG Checkpoints in Nahla Valley Continue to Cause Hardships to Local Assyrians
Security checkpoints administered by Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) authorities on key access roads leading to the Nahla Valley...
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Aug 13, 20223 min read
19-Year-Old Assyrian Woman Detained by SDF Forces in Northeast Syria
The API is alarmed by reports that Samira Habsono, a 19-year-old Assyrian woman from Qamishli, was detained by the Syrian Democratic...
Jul 9, 20222 min read
Updated: Assyrian Woman Arbitrarily Detained by SDF Forces in Northeastern Syria
The API is concerned by reports that Rasha Chamoun, a 32-year-old Assyrian woman, was detained without charges by the Syrian Democratic...
Nov 15, 20213 min read
KRG police use unlawful force against Assyrian protestors in Simele District, north Iraq
On November 13, 2021, hundreds of protestors from the adjacent Assyrian villages of Shiyyez and Mar Yaqo located in Dohuk Province in the...
Jul 23, 20213 min read
API Welcomes Reintroduction of Assyrian Genocide Resolution in the U.S. House of Representatives
The Assyrian Policy Institute announced support for the Assyrian Genocide resolution, House Resolution 550, which was reintroduced in the...
May 3, 20212 min read
New cases of Assyrian-owned lands in Ankawa, Erbil appropriated by the Kurdistan Regional Government
The chronic and systematic expropriation of Assyrian land in the Iraqi Kurdistan Region (IKR) has been a long-term problem that continues...
Apr 20, 20213 min read
API Concerned by Indefinite Closure of ANB TV Studio in Ankawa by KRG Authorities
The Assyrian Policy Institute is concerned by reports regarding the Kurdistan Regional Government’s indefinite closure of an...
Oct 26, 20202 min read
Statement on Azerbaijan’s Ongoing Aggression Against the Republic of Artsakh
As of October 26, 2020, Azerbaijan’s large-scale aggression against the Republic of Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh), a historically Armenian...
Sep 9, 20203 min read
Access route in the Nineveh Plain blocked by KRG security forces
A key access route connecting the Assyrian towns of Tesqopa and Batnaya in the Nineveh Plain has been blocked by Kurdistan Regional...
Aug 17, 20202 min read
Updated: Iranian-Assyrian Pastor and wife denied appeal; combined 15 year sentence upheld
Iranian-Assyrian Pastor Victor Bet Tamraz, 66, and his wife Shamiran Issavi, 65, were convicted in July 2017 and January 2018,...
Apr 9, 20207 min read
COVID-19: The Impact on Assyrian Refugees and IDPs
The spread of COVID-19 puts Assyrian and other refugees and internally-displaced peoples (IDPs) at particular risk. The majority of...
Feb 11, 20203 min read
Updated: Assyrian priest indicted on terrorism charges in Turkey
The Assyrian Policy Institute is deeply concerned by the indictment of Assyrian Priest Sefer Aho Bileçen (who leads Mor Yacoub Syriac...
Jan 14, 20202 min read
Updated: Two Assyrians missing in southeastern Turkey
See updates below. (1/16/20) The Assyrian Policy Institute is deeply concerned by initial reports that on January 11, 2020, two...
Jan 10, 20203 min read
Updated: Local priest, two other Assyrians in Tur Abdin detained by Turkish authorities
The Assyrian Policy Institute is deeply concerned by the January 9 arrests of three Assyrian civilians in Tur Abdin in southeastern...
Oct 6, 20192 min read
Turkish airstrikes in Assyrian villages in northern Iraq continue
Turkish airstrikes in northern Iraq continue to threaten areas historically inhabited by Assyrians. Between October 2-6, 2019, multiple...
Sep 30, 20192 min read
API Director Testifies at USCIRF Hearing on "Religious Minorities' Fight to Remain in Iraq"
On September 26, 2019, API Director Reine Hanna testified at a United States Commission on International Religious Freedom hearing about...
Sep 8, 20192 min read
Mass Grave from ISIS Massacres Uncovered in Assyrian Town of Bakhdida, Iraq
A mass grave containing seven sets of adult remains has been discovered in Al-Qiyama cemetery located in the Assyrian town of Bakhdida...
Sep 3, 20192 min read
Sentencing Hearing for Shamiran Issavi and Victor Bet-Tamraz Postponed
Today's scheduled sentencing hearing for Shamiran Issavi, Pastor Victor Bet-Tamraz, and three Christian converts charged for activities...
Aug 5, 20192 min read
Iran-Backed Militia Refuses to Comply with Orders to Withdraw from Nineveh Plain, Stages Protest
Hundreds of protestors believed to be affiliated with Brigade 30 of the Popular Mobilization Units (PMU) set up blockades in parts of the...
Jul 20, 20194 min read
API Attends 2019 State Department Ministerial to Advance Religious Freedom
The Assyrian Policy Institute was pleased to attend the second annual Ministerial to Advance Religious Freedom hosted by the U.S....
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