Iraq wants to return hundreds of foreign women and their children detained in the country, though two foreign diplomats told AFP on Monday the process would be a […] ...

BAGHDAD (AP)—As a girl, Zainab Khadim Alwan cut school to watch American tennis stars Serena and Venus Williams play, imagining herself some day becoming just like them. Even the rocket that blew off ...

The Personal Status Law, adopted in 1959, has been amended to allow Iraqis to choose whether they want their marriages governed by Sunni law or the Jaafari Code, in accordance with Shiite law. Once ...

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A powerful mix of insecurity and traditional prejudice against more liberal female politicians put Awatef Rasheed off running for parliament when she returned to Iraq in 2014 after ...

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, ...

In Iraq, women have long fought to grab a significant share of seats in the country's parliament. With elections scheduled for early March, many female lawmakers in Iraq say they are still struggling ...

On Feb. 13, 2020, Iraqi streets were awash with pink and purple. In response to influential Islamist cleric Muqtada al-Sadr's allegations of "promiscuity" by protesters in popular country-wide ...

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - One year after the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, then-President George W. Bush told a gathering at the White House: "Every woman in Iraq is better off because the rape rooms and ...

Elizabeth Goitein's May 24 op-ed, "Stand Up for Iraqi Women," unfairly criticized the Bush administration for paying insufficient attention to the situation of women in Iraq. In fact, we are doing ...

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 ...

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 ...

Madeleine Brand speaks with Zainab Al-Suwaij, executive director of the American Islamic Congress, about her efforts to assure that the new Iraqi constitution recognizes women's rights. This is DAY TO ...