Jeremy Barker, Associate Vice President for International Strategy at the Religious Freedom Institute moderated a panel concerning religious freedom in Iraq at the International Religious Freedom ...

Religious freedom violations are an early warning sign of where mass atrocities could occur around the globe, a new report ...

Iraq's prime minister has presided over the reopening of the historic al-Nuri Grand Mosque and its leaning minaret in Mosul's ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - The number of Sabean-Mandaean community members in Iraq has dropped to below 50,000, a local leader ...

WASHINGTON -- The United States will not allow an Iran-style religious government to take hold in Iraq, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said Thursday. He also said Syria and others in the region ...

Since the fall of Hussein in April 2003, Iraqi communities have resisted the impulse to settle scores, some of which are based on grievances dating back decades, even centuries. But in the words that ...

Hashim further explained that between 250,000 and 300,000 Mandaeans have emigrated from Iraq "since 2005, when targeted ...

BAGHDAD (Reuters) -When Iraqis last voted in 2005, some in Washington feared the mainly Muslim nation would veer in the direction of Iran, an Islamic theocracy, instead of becoming the moderate ...

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Shiite and Kurdish politicians refined plans to form a coalition government that officials said includes an agreement not to turn the country into an Islamic state, as Ukraine ...

President Bush told a gathering of Iraqi-Americans last week that everyone in the new Iraq will enjoy freedom, "whether you're Sunni or Shia or Kurd or Chaldean or Assyrian or Turkoman or Christian or ...

ROME (AP) — Pope Francis turned 88 on Tuesday and marked the occasion with revelations that he almost didn’t make it. According to excerpts of his upcoming autobiography, suicide bombers had planned ...

Announcing Iraq's readiness to develop tourism relations with Iran in the fields of cultural, sightseeing, and health tourism ...