An Iraqi court has ruled in favor of a young Christian woman to protect her identity, allowing her to have her religious status corrected in the government’s official database after she had been ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Tamara Amer is fighting “a fierce battle against negative social control, a culture of silence, and the oppression of women in ...

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 ...

IRBIL, Iraq — Seven days after the legendary Iraqi singer Sajida Obaid died, women sat wrapped in black veils and abayas, their faces wet at her family home in the northern city of Irbil. Some were ...

BAGHDAD, Jan. 15 -- For the past four decades, Iraqi women have enjoyed some of the most modern legal protections in the Muslim world, under a civil code that prohibits marriage below the age of 18, ...