A mass grave containing seven sets of adult remains has been discovered in Al-Qiyama cemetery located in the Assyrian town of Bakhdida...

Today's scheduled sentencing hearing for Shamiran Issavi, Pastor Victor Bet-Tamraz, and three Christian converts charged for activities...

A diverse group of leading Assyrian-American organizations announced today that they have come together to form a coalition with the aim...

An estimated 3.5 million people globally comprise a distinct, indigenous ethnic group known as Assyrians. Tracing their heritage to...

Every year on August 7, Assyrians worldwide pay tribute to the memory of the Assyrians lost to genocide and persecution. The date marks...

Hundreds of protestors believed to be affiliated with Brigade 30 of the Popular Mobilization Units (PMU) set up blockades in parts of the...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan attended the ground-breaking ceremony on August 3, 2019 for the construction of the “first new...

A prominent Assyrian human rights activist residing in Ankawa, Iraq named William Bnyameen Adam—known by his pen name “Khlapieel...

The Assyrian Policy Institute was pleased to attend the second annual Ministerial to Advance Religious Freedom hosted by the U.S....

On July 17, 2019, Iranian Assyrian human rights activist Dabrina Bet Tamraz was part of a delegation of survivors of religious...

Assyrian Pastor and human rights activist Dabrina Bet Tamraz spoke on a panel entitled "Addressing Challenges to Religious Freedom in the...

On July 11, 2019, a car bomb exploded outside the entrance of the Syriac Orthodox Church of the Virgin Mary in the al-Wusta district of...

On June 21, 2019, the U.S. Department of State released its 2018 Report on International Religious Freedom which describes the status of...

Of the millions of refugees in Jordan, little is known about the fate of the ethnic Assyrians among the refugee population. ​ The...

On Monday, June 17, 2019, Kurdish intelligence forces (Asayish) detained Assyrian journalist Hormuz Mushi in Dohuk, Iraq. As of June 19,...

On June 12, 2019, API Director Reine Hanna attended a meeting of the Working Group on Christians and Religious Pluralism in the Middle...

On this day, the Armenian, Greek, and Assyrian communities commemorate the genocide that began in 1915 at the hands of the Ottoman...

A proposal calling for the creation of new settlements in the Nineveh Plain has alarmed members of the local Assyrian community who fear...

Four years ago today, ISIS terrorists launched an assault on the 35 Assyrian villages in the Khabour Region in northeastern Syria. Dozens...

Among the many threats posed by ongoing Turkish airstrikes targeting Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) militants in parts of northern...