It was a March afternoon near the end of Ramadan when Mina and her sister left their home to buy groceries for iftar from a nearby shop on the Syrian coast. They never made it to the store. What ...

A new IRC policy paper highlights how underfunding and lack of power-sharing are undermining the work of women’s organizations responding to gender-based violence (GBV) in Yemen. With over 6.2 million ...

The question now is what a shaken Islamic Republic in dire economic straits will do with what Iranian President Masoud ...

Thirty-three women and girls from Syria's Alawite sect have been abducted or gone missing this year in the turmoil following ...

Christina Rogers is dreaming of the day she finally gets to say "I do" to her fiancé of over two years. However, that day may ...

Stacy Bannerman suffered domestic violence from a veteran and spent over a decade helping others and pushing the Pentagon and VA to do more.

Over the weekend, Trump announced that the U.S. had struck three Iranian nuclear sites, aimed at destroying Iran’s nuclear enrichment facilities. In response, Iran launched missile attacks Monday on U ...

Four in five eligible voters in Iraq have successfully updated their biometric data but the country has seen notable holdouts ...

The Iraqi Bishop Who Saw ... education funds from the State of Maine for continuing to allow males to compete with and change alongside girls and women, the fight for women’s single-sex spaces ...

After months of legal and political wrangling, an amendment to Iraq's Personal Status Law that entered into force on February 17, 2025, violates women's and girls' rights to equality before the ...

Two decades after US military invasion left it spiraling out of control, a more stable Iraq is beginning to attract international visitors. Here’s what they say about their experiences.

Conservative figures show that more than 6,000 women and 11,000 children were killed in Gaza by the Israeli military over the last 12 months. Data from 2004-2021 on direct conflict deaths from the ...