In a move that has drawn widespread criticism from human rights organizations and women’s groups, Iraq is on the brink..

After jihadists jailed him in 2014, Iraqi religious scholar Muhammad al-Attar said he would sometimes pull his prison blanket ...

Sistani, has sounded an alarm, which seems like the last warning before Iraq faces a critical turning point that neither the state nor its people may be able to withstand. These potential dangers have ...

Iraq is poised to slash the legal age of consent from 18 to to nine, allowing men to marry young children. The proposed legal ...

Unless the ruling classes manage to divide the proletariat along religious, ethnic and regional lines, there will most probably be riots, strikes and uprisings in Baghdad, Karkuk, Mosul, Basra, ...

Could a 2000-year-old clay pot hold the secret to ancient electrochemical technology? Or was it simply an artifact?

If you tune into mainstream media, especially in India, you might find yourself asking, “What the heck is going on in ...

Although a secular republic, Islam is the majority religion and pervades the whole of society. This causes some Chadians to show hostility and intolerance towards Christians, whom they regard as ...

Iraq’s most senior and revered Shiite cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali Al Sistani issued a powerful call on Monday for profound ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - The Iraqi Shiite religious authority on Sunday dispatched 19 truckloads of aid to conflict-hit Lebanon, with Baghdad opening its doors to Lebanese people seeking refuge since ...

But the whole of the Middle East is burning with more crises, more disputes: the Gaza war, now the south of Lebanon, more ...