Iraq’s parliament passed three divisive laws Tuesday, including amendments to the country's personal status law that opponents say would in effect legalize child marriage.
Protesters demonstrate against a proposed law to permit under-age female marriage in Tahrir Square in Baghdad in 2024 (Hadi Mizban/AP) Iraq’s parliament passed three divisive laws on Tuesday ...
In Cairo's Tahrir Square, she wrote of revolutionary upheaval sweeping Egypt. She covered the violence of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria from Baghdad, Erbil and Dohuk. From Beirut ...
Iraq's parliament ammended a law protecting girls against child marriage, now allowing brides as young as 9 years old.
We want to get rid of this gang, then maybe we can rest,” said a protester, said a protester, who did not wish to be identified, who had camped overnight in Baghdad’s Tahrir Square. Prime Minister ...
FILE - Protesters gather to demonstrate against a proposed law to permit underage female marriage in Tahrir Square in Baghdad, Iraq, Aug. 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban, File) ...
Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Protesters gather to demonstrate against a proposed law to permit underage female marriage in Tahrir Square ...
Kurdistan 24 correspondent Soran Kamaran, reporting from Baghdad, said the Iraqi government had deployed a significant amount of military and police forces in various areas of the capital, ...
For this, the government has taken strict security measures in Baghdad and has declared curfews. Muqtada al-Sadr, a highly influential Shia cleric has called on his followers to protest in al-Tahrir ...
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