According to the United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef), some 28 per cent of women in Iraq are married by 18. This is because of a loophole in the personal status law which allows religious ...

On November 12, the very day the U.S. joined the military coalition Operation Free Sinjar against ISIS, Iraq enacted a law that will further victimize religious minorities, who have already ...

Every day, the prospects for restoring religious pluralism in Iraq slip further away. It’s time to take action.

Iraq's Christian community is one of the oldest ... and which could only occur because a succession of caliphs [Islamic political and religious leaders] tolerated minorities.

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In an excerpt from his forthcoming autobiography, Francis said two suicide bombers had been planning to attack one of his ...

How two religious communities in Iraq are battling to keep their faith in the face of ISIS. Show more Iraq’s minorities, some of the oldest communities in the world, are being driven from the ...

Al-Monitor is an award-winning media outlet covering the Middle East, valued for its independence, diversity and analysis. It is read widely by US, international and Middle East decision makers at the ...

The child then will follow his father's religion according to the laws in Iraq." To discuss the details of this law, SBS Assyrian correspondent from Duhok, Naseem Sadiq, spoke to Dr Muna Yaku ...