ISIS on the offensive in Iraq

[Fragony]

Assyrian. But yeah, this is personal.

I once again know nothing, with Assyrian I think of the Mesopotamian periods. Didn't know people still call themselves Assyrian nowadays.

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I once again know nothing, with Assyrian I think of the Mesopotamian periods. Didn't know people still call themselves Assyrian nowadays.

We sure do. I even speak conversational Aramaic.

[lars573]

I once again know nothing, with Assyrian I think of the Mesopotamian periods. Didn't know people still call themselves Assyrian nowadays.

I've only ever seen it used as a blanket term for un-Arabized non-Islamic, IE Christian (I've never heard of a Zoroastrian group), populations in the levant area.