Authorities in Iraq have arrested 17 people after a video of men pushing a screaming woman into a car during New Year’s Eve ...

NAJAF, Iraq (AP) – An Iraqi-American woman found bludgeoned to death in her California home last week with a threatening note left beside her body was buried in her native Iraq on Saturday. Family ...

IRBIL, Iraq — 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 of ...

An amendment to Iraq’s 1959 Personal Status law was officially proposed in the Iraqi parliament on Aug. 4. The draft law could theoretically make it legal for girls as young as nine years old to get ...

My second trip to Iraq since the liberation of Baghdad grabbed some headlines because of a rocket attack on our hotel. But a visit to a new women's center in the city of Hillah said more about Iraq's ...

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CAMP TAJI, Iraq, March 26, 2007 - The 615th "Cold Steel" Aviation Support Battalion hosted a Women's History Month celebration here March 19. U.S. Army Lt. Col. Holly Cook, 1st Cavalry Division staff ...

B A G H D A D, Iraq, Nov. 4 -- I stood behind the firing range and watched a class at target practice. Police trainees were lined up, hunched over AK-47s, in deep concentration. When instructors gave ...

The Peppermint Creek Theatre Company trumpets in 2007 with its third show of their season "Exquisite Contradictions" with "9 Parts of Desire" by Okemos-native Heather Raffo. In this daring and ...