When World War One broke out, the British and the French asked the Ashurai people to join them in the War against the Axis Powers. The Ashurai were called "The Smallest Ally."
At the time, the Ashurai people were not recognized as Ashurai. They were known as "Soorai." They were considered a small Christian nation descendants from ancient cultures of the Middle East. The Ashurai people were denied their true identity as having descended from Nineveh. Therefore, it was not only their native Scriptures that were denied, but their very place of origin. To this day the history books of the Western World have not been rectified regarding the Ashurai people's identity.
During World War Two, the Ashurai nation fought against Hitler's armies in North Iraq, preventing the Nazis from extending their railroad to the South of Iraq and the Persian Gulf.
To this day none of the Allies officially recognize the Ashurai contribution to the Allied Cause during the two World Wars. Instead the Allies reneged on their promises to allow the Ashurai to settle in their ancestral lands in the Nineveh region. Today, the Nineveh Province is contested by the Kurds and the Turks, neither of whom have any legitimate right to occupy the land. In fact, the Ashurai are used as pawns in the game between the parties fighting over Iraq and its oil resources.