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Oct 29, 2019
2 min

API Statement on Passage of House Resolution 296 Recognizing the Armenian, Greek, Assyrian Genocide

The Assyrian Policy Institute joins with our partner organization the Assyrian American Association of Southern California in welcoming t...

Oct 10, 2019
2 min

API Statement on Turkish Offensive in Northeastern Syria

The Assyrian Policy Institute condemns the Turkish military incursion into northern Syria and the reported indiscriminate airstrikes whic...

Oct 6, 2019
2 min

Turkish airstrikes in Assyrian villages in northern Iraq continue

Turkish airstrikes in northern Iraq continue to threaten areas historically inhabited by Assyrians. Between October 2-6, 2019, multiple a...

Sep 30, 2019
2 min

API Director Testifies at USCIRF Hearing on "Religious Minorities' Fight to Remain in Iraq"

On September 26, 2019, API Director Reine Hanna testified at a United States Commission on International Religious Freedom hearing about ...

Sep 8, 2019
2 min

Mass Grave from ISIS Massacres Uncovered in Assyrian Town of Bakhdida, Iraq

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

Sep 3, 2019
2 min

Sentencing Hearing for Shamiran Issavi and Victor Bet-Tamraz Postponed

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

Aug 27, 2019
2 min

Coalition Formed to Support Assyrian Genocide Recognition

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

Aug 9, 2019
4 min

API Statement on Indigenous Peoples' Day 2019

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

Aug 7, 2019
2 min

API Statement on Assyrian Martyrs Day 2019

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

Aug 5, 2019
2 min

Iran-Backed Militia Refuses to Comply with Orders to Withdraw from Nineveh Plain, Stages Protest

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

Aug 4, 2019
7 min

API Statement on the Status of Assyrians in Turkey

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

Jul 26, 2019
2 min

Assyrian Activist Faces Death Threats After Criticizing KRG Officials

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

Jul 20, 2019
4 min

API Attends 2019 State Department Ministerial to Advance Religious Freedom

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

Jul 18, 2019
1 min

Assyrian Human Rights Activist Meets with U.S. President Donald Trump

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

Jul 18, 2019
5 min

Dabrina Bet Tamraz Testimony at U.S. State Department Ministerial

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

Jul 11, 2019
1 min

Explosion targets church in Assyrian district of Qamishli, Syria

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 Q...

Jun 25, 2019
8 min

Highlights from 2018 U.S. State Department International Religious Freedom Report

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

Jun 21, 2019
2 min

New Report Highlights Challenges Faced by Assyrian Refugees in Jordan

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

Jun 19, 2019
2 min

KRG Intelligence Forces Detain Assyrian Journalist Hormuz Mushi in Dohuk

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

Jun 14, 2019
3 min

API attends Hudson Institute Working Group with Lara Yousif Zara

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

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