Iraq’s new Ja’afari Personal Status Code, passed by parliament on August 27, discriminates against women by favoring men in ...

Assyrian women from across northern Iraq were invited to join the country's national volleyball team. And despite Christians ...

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Though security is improving in Iraq, conditions for women have worsened according to two new studies. Many Iraqi women, according to reports, are suffering from mental illness, lack of necessities, ...

IRBIL, Iraq -- Shaimaa Saadoun is haunted by her memory of being forced into an abusive marriage to a 39-year-old man just after she turned 13. Her impoverished family near the southern Iraqi city of ...

IRBIL, Iraq (AP) — Shaimaa Saadoun is haunted by her memory of being forced into an abusive marriage to a 39-year-old man just after she turned 13. Her impoverished family near the southern Iraqi city ...

A Fargo state legislator will travel to Iraq in the coming days to help monitor the country's upcoming March election. Republican Bette Grande is one of nine women nationwide chosen by the National ...

The Peppermint Creek Theatre Company trumpets in 2007 with its third show of their season "Exquisite Contradictions" with "9 Parts of Desire" by Okemos-native Heather Raffo. In this daring and ...

NAJAF, Iraq (AP) – An Iraqi-American woman found bludgeoned to death in her California home last week with a threatening note left beside her body was buried in her native Iraq on Saturday. Family ...