ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - The Syriac language is being taught as an elective in Qamishli, in the Kurdish-majority Hasaka ...

Beirut -- Did you speak any Syriac today? If you had an extended conversation in colloquial Lebanese Arabic, chances are you did. Although most languages are governed by rigid grammatical and ...

Turkey’s parliament erupted in controversy this week when the nation’s only Assyrian lawmaker delivered a Christmas message in his native Syriac language, offending other legislators who believe that ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Authorities from the Kurdish-led administration in northeast Syria (Rojava) on Wednesday slammed the recent remarks by Syria’s cultural minister claiming that the Syriac ...

DEM Party Member of Parliament George Aslan, who celebrated Christmas in Syriac language in the Turkish Grand National Assembly and faced interference from members of the İYİ Party, described the ...

Iraqi Christians on a spiritual pilgrimage to the birthplace of biblical patriarch Abraham visit the ruins of Ur near Nasiriyah in southern Dhi Qar province, Nov. 22, 2013 (photo by REUTERS/Essam ...

BAGHDAD — Iraq’s shrunken and conflict-scarred Christian community is launching a new television channel as part of efforts to save their dying language, spoken for more than 2,000 years. Syriac, an ...

The Department of Living Languages in Mardin Artuklu University is set to launch two courses to teach Hebrew and Syriac. Assistant Prof. Mehmet Sait Toprak said their aim was to train researchers who ...

For the faithful gathered at St George’s Church, Kochi, it was a rare occasion for the congregation to re-live a bygone religious experience. The mass on the annual feast of St George last month ...