[1] In 2018 they allied with the Assyrian Democratic Movement in a political group called the National Rafidain List for the 2018 Iraqi parliamentary election.

The Assyrian Patriotic Party was founded on July 14, 1973, in Baghdad, during the visit of Yaqo Malik Ismail to Iraq, who was accompanied by a delegation from the Assyrian Universal Alliance.

The birth of the party imposed the need to frame the tide growing nationalism among young Assyrians in general and university, and are not dispersed National Action and poured in a political way possible in which to go forward and take advantage of the experiences and practices of national past and to create continuity in the work and gain experience and accumulation in order to serve our people's cause.

[citation needed] In 2018 they allied with the Assyrian Democratic Movement in a political group called the National Rafidain List for the 2018 Iraqi parliamentary election and won a seat in Dahuk.

In response to the killings against the Assyrian Christians and other minorities, and the rise of Sunni Islamists such as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS), the party set up the Dwekh Nawsha, which stands for The Sacrifiers in the Assyrian Neo-Aramaic language.