Efforts to end child marriage in Iraq are facing a serious threat, with the Iraqi Council of Representatives’ approval of amendments to Iraq’s Personal Status Law raising grave concerns that it risks ...

A Swedish court on Tuesday sentenced a 52-year-old woman to 12 years in prison on genocide charges, in the country's first ...

A court in Stockholm on Tuesday convicted a Swedish woman of genocide, crimes against humanity and gross war crimes committed in Syria in 2015 against women and children of the Yazidi religious ...

CHARDON, Ohio — Every time Allison Kennedy walked outside the gates of her military base in Iraq, her stomach would do a flip. As one of only three women stationed among 5,000 Iraqi soldiers ...

A Swedish woman has been sentenced to 12 years in prison for committing genocide and war crimes against the Yazidi people ...

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Delaware Sen. Chris Coons agreed with CNN host Michael Smerconish that funding a "Sesame Street" show in Iraq could be a good use of taxpayer funding to teach "values" to Iraqi children.

The Gazan population is six times greater than that Iraqi city was in 2004, when coalition forces subdued it during the worst urban warfare of the Iraq war. The Iraq war looms large as an example ...

A woman who kept Yazidi women and children as slaves in Raqqa, Syria, during the rule of the terror group ISIS was on Tuesday ...

By denying half the population the opportunity to contribute meaningfully to the workforce and civic life, Iraq is undermining its own development. Women’s empowerment is a critical driver of economic ...