BAGHDAD -- The textbooks at their new school might call their predicament "forced internal displacement," but the Iraqi girls living this phenomenon describe it in different terms. Safwan Abbas ...

Iraq’s decision to introduce the Ja’fari law in January means that girls can be married based on perceived “maturity and physical capacity.” Baghdad’s bridal industry has seen a massive boom since ...

Yanar Mohammed’s life was defined by activism, protection of the vulnerable, and refusal to stay silent — cut short this month by the violence she fought to end ...

CANBERRA – The death of an Australian girl in a Baghdad bombing underscored why Australia was fighting Daesh (the so-called IS) militants in the Middle East, the Australian foreign minister said ...

BAGHDAD, Jan 28 (Reuters) - Five female pupils were killed in a mortar strike on a secondary school in the predominantly Sunni Adil district of western Baghdad on Sunday, the school's principal told ...