Sha'di Halul, head of the Aramaic Maronite Heritage Center, in Gush Halav in northern Israel, on August 9, 2013. Aramaic is now recognized as a nationality in Israel. Lost in the uproar over the ...

Important information about the period of David’s reign, based on new archaeological and epigraphic data unearthed in northwestern Syria and southern Turkey, has been uncovered by scientists. In two ...

One of the world’s oldest Christian minorities, Syria’s Arameans, urged NBC News early Saturday not to mislead the public by covering a false report about Turkey’s Operation Peace Spring. NBC News ...

Sha'di Halul, head of the Aramaic Maronite Heritage Center, in Gush Halav in northern Israel, on August 9, 2013. Aramaic is now recognized as a nationality in Israel. The subset of Middle Eastern ...

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JISH, northern Israel — In plain view of a Hezbollah stronghold, Shadi Khalloul scanned a fig tree for the best fruit to offer his guests. “Take some if you have a plastic bag,” Khalloul, 48, said on ...

Arameans were among the first followers of Christ and still today speak the language used by Jesus of Nazareth. In their home territory, Tur Abdin in southern Turkey, they have been persecuted for ...

Consider some first hand testimony. There is little honor for the United States in continuing to be the world’s most powerful bystander. With the arrival of Passover, may our founding Exodus story ...

Israel’s Ministry of Interior signed an order recognizing some 200 Aramean Christian families as a separate nationality in the country’s population registry, Israel’s Haaretz newspaper reported on ...

The god Martu (Akkadian Amurru) the eponymous god of the Amorites and chief shepherd, as depicted in the Mesopotamian glyptics. He was obviously a personification of the nomads of the desert and ...

In a striking statement that has reignited debate over the Sayfo Genocide against Armenians, Syriacs (Arameans-Chaldeans-Assyrians), and Greeks in 1915 by the hands of Ottoman Turks and Kurds, ...