A resolution recognizing the Assyrian Genocide of 1915 and the Simele Massacre of 1933 is tabled until the Illinois General Assembly’s fall session, the Shlama Foundation equips a new youth volleyball team in Batnaya, Iraq and Apple announces an Assyrian keyboard coming with iOS 15.

An Assyrian activist is released after his abduction in Syria, a partnered project between GISHRU and the Assyrian Aid Society Iraq helps Assyrian-owned businesses reopen in northern Iraq and an event in Illinois celebrates local Assyrian elected officials.

An Assyrian church in northern Iraq is damaged by Turkish airstrikes targeting the PKK, the Assyrian Aid Society announces this year’s Mesopotamian Night and the Assyrian Church of the East will hold its first in-person graduation ceremony in Illinois since the pandemic.

A UN Regional Forum scheduled for June will spotlight minority issues in the Middle East, Chicago-based nonprofit Ishtar’s Circle collects donations at a local food pantry and an online memorial tribute honors the life of the late Ashur Sargon Eskrya.

An Assyrian village in northern Iraq empties after intensified Turkish airstrikes, the Etuti Institute partners with Gabbara to renovate Assyrian homes in Armenia and UFC fighter Beneil Dariush secures a win and sets a record.

Seizures of Assyrian-owned properties facilitated by the Kurdistan Regional Government continue, the Shlama Foundation refurbishes a cemetery in a village in northern Iraq and the Assyrian American National Federation announces its 88th Assyrian Convention.

A U.S. House Resolution recognizing the Simele Massacre gets growing support, publishing house Nineveh Press is to publish a collection of Naum Faiq’s works and the Assyrian Community Fund announces plans for its first Teen Leadership Program.

U.S. President Joe Biden recognizes the massacres of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire as genocide, the KRG indefinitely shuts down an Assyrian television station in northern Iraq and the Etuti Institute resumes its Annual Leadership Program in the town of Bebedeh.

Airstrikes hit Assyrian-populated regions of northern Iraq, communities call for recognition of the Armenian Genocide ahead of its anniversary and the Assyrian Democratic Movement celebrates 42 years since its establishment.

Assyrians fill government seats in Cook County, Ill., an Assyrian priest in Turkey is sentenced to 25 months in prison and Ashur Sargon Eskrya, president of the Assyrian Aid Society - Iraq, dies at 46.