Chaldean Press

Nineveh Plains, Iraq - Chaldean leaders in Iraq and across the diaspora are renewing calls for the creation of an autonomous Nineveh Plains province, arguing that only self-administration can secure the future of Iraq’s remaining Chaldean Christian population more than a decade after the ISIS invasion shattered the region.

Chaldean Neo-Aramaic, one of the last living forms of the ancient Aramaic language, is officially classified by UNESCO as “definitely endangered.” In its Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger (2010), UNESCO lists Chaldean Neo-Aramaic among the Northeastern Neo-Aramaic languages, noting that it is no longer being learned as

U.S. Special Envoy to Iraq Mark Savaya announced Baghdad and Ankara on a new Iraq–Türkiye water-management accord, calling it a “major step” toward easing drought and securing the Tigris-Euphrates basin. The agreement establishes an implementation mechanism allowing Turkish firms to build water-infrastructure and land-reclamation projects in Iraq, funded