Officials in Syria's caretaker government were left with a state in ruins. Some fear they aren't moving fast enough to fix it ...

Iraq’s parliament has passed three divisive laws including amendments to the country’s personal status law that opponents say ...

The amendments to Iraq's personal status law will give Islamic courts increased authority over family matters, including marriage ... law aimed at addressing Kurdish territorial claims.

The amendments to Iraq's personal status law allow clerics to rule on marriages based on their interpretation of Islamic law.

Iraq’s parliament ... minimum age for Muslim girls to marry to as young as nine years old. But a revised version reinstated clauses of the old law that set the age of marriage at 18 - or 15 ...

The amendments give Islamic courts increased authority over family matters, including marriage, divorce and inheritance. Activists say that this undermines Iraq’s 1959 Personal Status Law ...

The amendments give Islamic courts increased authority over family matters, including marriage ... Kurdish territorial claims. Intisar al-Mayali, a human rights activist and a member of the Iraqi ...

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.

The amendments give Islamic courts increased authority over family matters, including marriage, divorce and inheritance. Activists argue that this undermines Iraq's 1959 Personal Status Law ...