The hijab, a headscarf worn by some Muslim women, is full of religious, cultural and political meaning. In this video, sisters Hiba Alsabonge and Jasmine Alsabunji, Muslim refugees from Iraq now ...
IRBIL, Iraq (AP) — 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 ...
BAGHDAD (AP) — Militants with the Islamic State group tortured and then publicly killed a human rights lawyer in the Iraqi city of Mosul after their self-proclaimed religious court ruled that she had ...
Crews remove Sea Island Shrimp House statue Jolly Jack from original location behind North Star Mall. The statue is being removed for restoration, and is expected to return later this summer. Read ...
In the heart of the Middle East, a legal debacle is unfolding that strikes at religious freedom and the core principles of democracy. I don’t expect that opening sentence to raise many eyebrows since ...
ARBIL Iraq (Reuters) - The Islamic State group said it enslaved families from the minority Yazidi sect after overrunning their villages in northwestern Iraq, in what it praised as the revival of an ...