In his new book “Assyria: The Rise and Fall of the World’s First Empire” (Basic Books), Yale professor Eckart Frahm offers a comprehensive history of the ancient civilization (circa 2025 BCE to 609 ...

The Assyrian National Council, in partnership with the Assyrian Youth group, organised this year’s Assyria Day, an initiative ...

The story of ancient Assyria is one of extraordinary longevity and startling evanescence. Assyrian history sprawls out over millennia. As early as the third millennium B.C., a coherent identity ...

The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), a large Sunni militant group that purportedly has ties to Al-Qaeda, claims to be conquering north-central Iraq on behalf of Iraq’s Sunni minority.

The Assyrians are well known for their vast ancient empire in the Middle East; ancient cities, such as Nimrud and Nineveh; and their fierce invasions, including into the Kingdom of Judah and Egypt.

Islamic State is destroying ancient cities excavated by three remarkable men in the middle of the 19th Century - among them the first Iraqi archaeologist.

Islamic State jihadists have bulldozed and looted the world-famous Nimrud archaeological site in northern Iraq in an act described Friday as a “war crime” by the United Nation’s cultural agency.

Assyria also teaches us something about how wrong it is to "essentialize" the people of the Middle East. I think it's really interesting to see how Assyria starts off not as a war-prone state but as a ...

Assyria stands out in history as the fountainhead of empire. It was perhaps the first state to subdue the bulk of its world, extending in every direction until its frontiers consisted almost entirely ...