The amendments give Islamic courts increased authority over family matters, including marriage, divorce and inheritance.

Family matters - including marriage, divorce and inheritance - will now be under the control of Islamic courts, which some ...

Iraq’s parliament passed three divisive laws Tuesday, including amendments to the country’s personal status law that ...

MP says new Personal Status Law amendment no longer allows child marriage but concerns remain over impact of legislation ...

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Former Rep. Doug Collins of Georgia is a veteran of the U.S. Navy, a former Air Force Reserve chaplain, a veteran of the Iraq ...

By bnm Gulf bureau Iraq has awarded China's Shanghai SUS Environment Co. Ltd a $497mn contract to build the country's first ...

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The Chairman/CEO of Nigerians in Diaspora Commission, Hon Abike Dabiri-Erewa has disclosed that over five thousand Nigerians ...

Recent discoveries challenge ideas of a sharp divide between the haves and have-nots in ancient Mesopotamia, suggesting a ...

The Navy says it will name a landing ship after the late Maj. Megan McClung, the first woman U.S. Marine to be killed during ...

U.S. Air Force explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) technicians assigned to the 379th Expeditionary Civil Engineer Squadron ...