The Taliban’s new law isn’t about child marriage, it’s child rape - IN FOCUS: As reports reveal families in Afghanistan are ...

The Taliban has formally legitimized child marriages under a twisted new family law decree that sets out rules for marriages ...

An Iraqi court has ruled in favor of a young Christian woman to protect her identity, allowing her to have her religious ...

Ali al-Zaidi, a political unknown, has been tasked with forming a new coalition government. Now, he must grapple with growing U.S. pressure to curb Iranian influence over Iraq. By Erika Solomon and ...

Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Iraqi Prime Minister-designate Ali al-Zaidi ...

The Strait of Hormuz crisis is driving nations’ efforts to develop alternative Gulf-to-Europe trade routes, with Iraq’s $24 billion "Development Road" project at the forefront, analyst says. The route ...

After months of tensions and pressure from both the U.S. and Iran, Ali al-Zaidi, a businessman, was named as prime minister-designate. By Ephrat Livni Iraq’s president on Monday named a businessman as ...

Iraq's main Shiite alliance failed on Friday to agree on a new candidate for prime minister after US pressure stymied the chances of frontrunner Nouri al-Maliki. Leaders of the Coordination Framework ...

I remember screaming, though I don’t know what words I screamed. And I remember resisting, though there was little I could do in heels against two military-trained men intent on shoving me into the ...

WASHINGTON—The Trump administration has suspended U.S. dollar shipments to Iraq and frozen security cooperation programs with its military, escalating the pressure on Baghdad to dismantle powerful ...

Kentucky banned child marriages in 2018. Kentucky Public Radio’s Sylvia Goodman investigates why children are still getting married in the Bluegrass state and the effort to unequivocally ban it ...