Heads of five Syriac churches convene in a historic meeting, a nonprofit begins work on an irrigation canal in an Assyrian village in northern Iraq and ISIS claims responsibility for an attack in Kirkuk.

An ADM delegation visits the Iraqi president, a youth union celebrates its 31st anniversary and US forces kill two ISIS ‘officials’ in Syria.

Thanks for tuning in to our 100th episode. This week, a UN report finds Christians were targets of ISIS war crimes, the US confirms the October death of an ISIS leader and an Assyrian choral ensemble takes the holiday stage.

Iraq says it's recovered billions of embezzled funds, Turkey threatens continued cross-border operations into Iraq and Syria and Mar Afrim Athnaeil of the Assyrian Church of the East in Syria assumes a new position as archbishop.

In the realm of classical music and shifting attitudes toward long-standing tradition, Assyrian Armenian pianist Lolita Emmanuel is rethinking Assyrian music. In this feature, she shares her thoughts on her new film, Performing Assyrian-ness, and what she describes as the small but growing genre of Assyrian art music.

Pope Francis meets with ACOE head Mar Awa III, a new lecture-recital film on Assyrian art music premieres and Turkey strikes northern Syria and Iraq.

The Ancient Church of the East elected its new patriarch, new discoveries dating to the ancient Assyrians were unearthed in Iraq and the AANES orders implementation of a region-specific curriculum.

A historic Assyrian language course is approved in an Illinois public school district, an Assyrian mayor is elected to his second term in an Australian city and cholera outbreaks take hold of Iraq, Lebanon and Syria.

A man is charged in the killing of an Assyrian refugee in Chicago, an explosion rocks Baghdad and families of ISIS fighters are repatriated in Australia.

An Assyrian man is remembered after being killed during an attempted armed robbery in Chicago, an adult Assyrian language course at a local public library in Illinois approaches its kickoff and new Assyrian reliefs are discovered in Iraq.