"Death, death to Saddam!" chanted Imam Husham Al-Husainy through a megaphone at a pro-war rally broadcast by C-SPAN in ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

and infiltrate every aspect of Iraq’s political, economic, and religious life” in the aftermath of the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq, according to The Intercept. Highlights from documents reporte ...

Pope: 'We cannot be silent when terrorism abuses religion' Iraq has been wracked by religious and sectarian violence, both against minorities and between Shia and Sunni Muslims too. People in what ...

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 ...

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 ...

This project examines the efforts of Iraq’s post-2003 ruling elite, in partnership with the United States, to build a democratic system to manage religious and ethnic diversity. It aims to investigate ...