Faysh Khabur (Arabic: فيشخابور,[1] Kurdish: پێشابوور, romanized: Pêşabûr[2][3] Syriac: ܦܝܫ ܚܒܘܪ[4]) is a town on the northwestern edge of the Kurdistan Region in the Zakho District of Duhok Governorate of Iraq.

[7] The town has been connected with the Sasanian city "Peroz-Shapur", and the modern name is thought to be influenced by the Persian one.

[8] During the Assyrian genocide, the town was attacked by Kurdish irregulars allied with the Ottoman Empire, which left hundreds dead and forced the rest to flee to Mosul and Alqosh.

[9] The first was during the Simele massacre in August 1933, when hundreds of its Assyrian inhabitants were attacked by the Iraqi Army.

The second time the village was targeted was during the first Kurdish rebellion in 1961 by the Sindi Kurdish tribe, which forced the inhabitants to seek refuge in Khanik, the sister village of Faysh Khabur across the border in Syria, until 1975 when they returned.