By Guest Contributor By Islam SalahIraq’s Federal Supreme Court has recently put a temporary stop to three major laws that were passed by parliament last month following a legal challenge. These laws ...

"We're preserving the coexistence and pluralism that was in Iraq," Benjamen said. Born and raised in Kirkuk, an oil-rich ...

Iraq’s top court has suspended implementation of three controversial bills passed last month by the country’s parliament, including a measure that activists say undermines women’s rights.

Christopher Jason Paul Hendry, 45, was convicted in a jury trial in December of felony stalking, second-degree extortion and other offenses.

Observers are warning that detention camps housing followers of the notorious Isis caliphate are close to collapse ...

Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said that the armed groups in Syria should be merged into a single army and a single ...

The International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor says he has requested arrest warrants for two top Afghan Taliban officials over the repression of women.

Family matters - including marriage, divorce and inheritance - will now be under the control of Islamic courts, which some say will permit the marriage of children as young as nine years old ...

Activists argue this undermines Iraq’s 1959 Personal Status Law, which unified family law and established safeguards for women. Intisar al-Mayali, a human rights activist and a member of the ...

As uncertainty sweeps through the Middle East, Iraq's prime minister has been focused on development, travelling to London to negotiate a series of deals on the economy and security. Yet it is the ...

Woman Catches Future Husband Talking About Her to His Friends — and Shares the Video Weeks Before Wedding (Exclusive) Still, Chard says, “I don't think single people always have to be doing ...