Women worldwide have only two thirds of the legal rights that men do, according to the World Bank's 2024 analysis of global gender equality laws. That's not ancient history we're talking about. This ...

The marriage between Europe and the United States has been fraught from the first—and now it might be coming apart.

It all went off without a hitch. Donald Trump's huge, beautiful, helicopter coup of 2026. After two years of bungling pretty ...

Gunfire tore through Tehran as armed militias flooded the Iranian capital after dark, turning residential streets into ...

A viral video of a mob attacking a teenage girl in Basra lays bare the devastating decline of women’s rights in Iraq over 30 ...

Discriminatory laws and poor enforcement foster victim-blaming and harmful stereotypes, enabling impunity for perpetrators in League of Arab States countries. Various forms of sexual violence are not ...

Senator Mark Kelly and former United States Representative Gabby Giffords have been married for nearly 20 years.

Iraq’s decision to introduce the Ja’fari law in January means that girls can be married based on perceived “maturity and physical capacity.” Baghdad’s bridal industry has seen a massive boom since ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Members of the new Iraqi Parliament are seen ...

BAGHDAD, Dec 29 (Reuters) - Iraq's parliament elected Sunni Muslim lawmaker Haibat al-Halbousi as speaker at its opening session on Monday following November's national election, launching a process ...

1968 – Joins the Islamic Dawa Party. Al Dawa (formally the Hizb al-Dawa al-Islamiyya or the Islamic Call Party), is a Shia Islamist party with close connections with Iran’s clerical regime. 1980 – ...

Here are some of the most creative, amusing and memorable ways that couples who married in 2025 popped the question. By Sadiba Hasan The simple proposals can sometimes feel just as endearing as the ...