Assyrian–Chaldean–Syriac diaspora

The Assyrian/Chaldean/Syriac diaspora (Syriac: ܓܠܘܬܐ Galuta) is the community of Assyrian people who live throughout the world outside of their native lands. The Assyrian people claim to be the modern day descendants of the Ancient Assyrians, and are known to be one of the few groups in Iraq who weren't assimilated as Arabs during the Arab conquest of Iraq. The Assyrian people's homeland is a geographic area within the borders of northern Iraq, northwest Iran, northeastern Syria, and southeastern Turkey. They are a Semitic Christian people, with most being members of the Assyrian Church of the East, Syriac Orthodox Church, Chaldean Catholic Church, Ancient Church of the East, Assyrian Pentecostal Church or Assyrian Evangelical Church.

Prior to the Assyrian Genocide, the Assyrian people were largely unmoved from their native lands. The worldwide diaspora of Assyrian communities first began during World War I with the Assyrian Genocide by the Young Turks government of the Ottoman Empire, together with some local Kurdish, Iranian and Arab tribes. Three more exoduses of Assyrians out of the Middle East began after that. The first began during the 1980s from Turkey (due to the Turkish-Kurdish conflict) and Iran (due to the establishment of the Islamic Republic of Iran), then in the 1990s and early 2000s from Ba'athist Iraq, and now an exodus from Iraq and Syria due to a genocide by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.