Iraqi women's participation in elections is a test of their ability to assert their presence, not only as candidates but also as owners of a project to change societal misconceptions of them, Neran Al ...

Yezidi women, many of whom survived a genocidal campaign by the terror group ISIS, are breaking social barriers by leading environmental renewal efforts in northern ...

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 ...

If there's one voice that's been missing throughout the coverage of the Iraqi war, it's been that of the Iraqi women who are living it. Even in Metro Detroit – with its large Middle Eastern population ...

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, ...

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - An Iraqi court has sentenced 16 Turkish women to death by hanging for joining Islamic State, a judiciary spokesman said on Sunday. Iraq is conducting the trials of hundreds of ...

AMMAN, Jordan -- An Iraqi woman confessed on Jordanian state television Sunday that she tried to blow herself up along with her husband during a hotel wedding reception last week, saying that the ...