IRBIL, Iraq -- A Kurdish militant group that has waged a long-running insurgency in Turkey announced Thursday its fighters in ...

Maao said that in the Yazidi story, God rewarded this angel (which they believe was a spirit called Melek Tawûs) for his ...

Ashty Bahro, who founded the Christian group in 2007, has never received USAID or UN funding. But this would not be a problem ...

Policies—whether in the West or in the Muslim world—are imposed on women, not developed with them or for them. How they dress ...

As an Iraqi Muslim who has visited China, I was so shocked and sad when I read reports of the July 5 violence in China's Xinjiang province, especially when I learned from the Western media of ...

Though it is Kurdish-led, the SDF includes fighters from other backgrounds. By chance, in the city of Hasaka, I met two Arab SDF veterans, injured fighting Islamic State, who are now in wheelchairs.

BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq’s top court on Tuesday threw out a legal challenge that had temporarily halted three controversial laws passed last month by the country’s parliament. The measures — each supported ...

In addition to the marriage law, parliament also passed a general amnesty law, seen as beneficial to Sunni detainees, and a land restitution law addressing Kurdish claims. Critics of the amnesty ...

A law has been passed in Iraq which has legalised the marriage of children as young as nine. Three controversial laws have been passed which give Islamic courts increased authority over family ...

This includes marriage, divorce and inheritance. Activists say this undermines Iraq's 1959 Personal Status Law, which unified family law and brought in safeguards for women.

Iraqi law currently sets 18 as the minimum age of marriage in most cases, but the changes passed Tuesday would let clerics rule according to their interpretation of Islamic law.