Mor Ignatius Aphrem II and two other heads of churches in Syria released a joint statement in December demanding that the ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - The Patriarch of the Syriac Orthodox Church Mor Ignatius Aphrem II said that he met with the president of the Kurdistan Region on Friday to get some advice about developments ...

The interim government in Damascus has called for a powerful Kurdish-led militia backed by the United States to disarm and ...

A pressing and persistent issue has been brought to light by the Kurdistan Teachers’ Union (KTU): The excessive number of ...

Eight years after the Iraqi city was left in ruins, Mosul’s rich multicultural heritage is slowly but surely beginning to flower again ...

Mosul’s Grand al-Nuri Mosque, known for its eight-century-old leaning minaret, destroyed by Islamic State militants in 2017, ...

Petzold was one of the Mar Musa monks sent to Iraq to give life to the project, and he has been there ever since.

Fr. Jens Petzold, a Swiss priest based in the Kurdistan region of northern Iraq, speaks to Vatican News about his work ...

Kurds in Syria were marginalized during five decades of Assad family rule, with many denied citizenship and wrongly described ...

The sudden collapse of the Syrian government and President Bashar Assad’s flight to Russia in December marked a dramatic ...

The sudden collapse of the Syrian government and President Bashar Assad’s flight to Russia in December marked a dramatic ...