The Assyrian Aid Society of Iraq has documented a list of land grabs by Kurds submitted to the U.N. over the past several decades. In 1963, the Zibari Clan, a prominent Kurdish tribe, ...

Assyria began as a dependency of Babylonia, but it became an independent state in the 14th century B.C.E., some 3,000 years ago, and grew into a major regional power in the historic Middle East.