A six-fold increase from 2023 amid a growing crackdown that has seen 96 worshippers sentenced. This is what emerges from a study published by activist groups and titled “The Tip of the Iceb ...
Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin met with 14 Middle East pontifical representatives in Jordan on Monday to discuss challenges in the region including ongoing hostilities there.
In his first interview with foreign press since the U.S. presidential election, Iran’s new president Masoud Pezeshkian denied a plot to assassinate Donald Trump. It comes after the Department of ...
It is a culturally rich area of the world with ruins of countless civilisations, from pre-Pottery Neolithic to Ottoman. One area and its people stand out in my memory, however: the Assyrians. I don't ...
Assyrians hail from portions of what is now Iraq, Iran, Syria and Turkey. They are descendants of a powerful Middle Eastern empire and early followers of Christianity whose language is a form of ...
“Every Syrian is our relative. We do not distinguish between Arabs, Assyrians, Christians, Islam, and Shiites. The idea of majority and minority in Syria was imported by the occupier and we reject i ...
Israeli security officials have warned that a change in the regional strategic situation could push Iran to take "extreme" steps against Israel in the near-future. IDF Chief of Staff Herzli Halevi ...