Maria Abi-Habib was a roving Middle East correspondent for The Wall Street Journal, focused on terrorism issues and jihadist groups such as al Qaeda and Islamic State. She had been based in Beirut and ...

Between 1915 and 1918 750,000 Assyrians (75%), 1,000,000 Greeks and 1,500,000 Armenians were killed by Ottoman Turks and Kurds in a genocide that aimed at and nearly succeeded in destroying the ...

April 24 was chosen specifically since this was the day when on April 24, 1915, approximately 250 prominent Armenian ...

In the mountains of eastern Anatolia, during the Iron Age between the 9th and 6th centuries BC, a kingdom arose that ...

With hooved feet and a winged body, the "massive 2,700-year-old" statue was said to depict an "Assyrian Deity that was excavated in Iraq" in 2023. The winged bull figure is lamassu, a likeness ...

UKRAINIAN President Volodymyr Zelenskyy claims that at least 155 Chinese were fighting on the side of Russia in the war in his country. As proof, he published a video of one of two Chinese captured by ...

The cold-blooded execution of four Ukrainian soldiers who surrendered was edited out of a Russian propaganda video that claimed the troops were captured alive rather than shot mercilessly at point ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. The Ukrainian soldiers emerged from the ruined ...

Audio analysis of footage of an Israeli attack on an aid worker convoy last month suggests that some of the shots were fired from as little as 12 metres away. The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) has ...

The festival, which was organized by local authorities and organizations in Ankawa, was also held to commemorate Akitu, the Assyrian-Babylonian New Year and the world’s oldest holiday.

A Beijing official pushed back on Ukraine’s claim that there were significant numbers of Chinese troops fighting alongside Russian forces. An official said the idea that many Chinese nationals ...

(A1C Cameron Lewis/Air Force) The Air Force on Monday revoked a policy providing troops extra time off around holidays, saying the widespread leave known as “Family Days” hurt the department ...