Assyrian people

The Assyrians are a Neo-Aramaic-speaking Christian ethnoreligious people indigenous to the Mesopotamian plain of northern Iraq, northeastern Syria, southeastern Turkey and northwestern Iran, tracing continuous communal identity to the ancient Mesopotamian and early Christian periods of the region. Assyrian communities are organized around several historically distinct churches (the Assyrian Church of the East, the Chaldean Catholic Church and the Syriac Orthodox Church among them), and the relationship between Assyrian, Chaldean and Syriac communal identity is itself a genuinely debated question within the community rather than a settled classification. Twentieth- and twenty-first-century violence, including the 1915 Sayfo massacres and the Islamic State's 2014 campaign against Christian towns of the Nineveh Plain, has driven large-scale displacement into a substantial global diaspora, notably in the United States, Sweden and Australia. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/