The first three churches are based in Iraq, and the Syro-Malabar Church in India. The schism that led to the formation of the Ancient Church of the East took place in 1964 in opposition to reforms ...

In 1994, his family left their native Iraq for Jordan and later moved to ... the East (the ancient Patriarchal Province of Seleucia-Ctesiphon) in Mesopotamia, modern-day Iraq, and draws on the ...

Needham was a member of an infantry special-operations unit - nicknamed the Lethal Warriors - and was deployed to Iraq in 2006. That unit was documented by journalists, including those for the Web ...