A federal jury on Tuesday found U.S. defense contractor CACI International liable for its role in torture at the Abu Ghraib prison near Baghdad during the Iraq war and ordered it to pay $42 ...

News Wrap: More victims of deadly floods found in Kentucky, Appalachia In our news wrap Saturday, catastrophic flash floods across eastern Kentucky and wider Appalachia have killed at least 25 ...

A sick newly proposed age of consent law would allow old men in Iraq to marry children as young as nine years old, and "legalise child rape" activists claim. Ultra-conservative Shia Muslim parties ...

The number of attacks on Israeli territory from Iraq by Iran's proxies is causing Israel to mull whether to strike Iraq in order to harm the Iranian activities carried out from its territory ...

Iraq is set to lower the legal age of consent from nine years old, a decision that women’s rights activists say will “legalise child rape”. The amendment to the country’s “personal ...

A disturbing new proposal for an age of consent law in Iraq could permit elderly men to marry children as young as nine, effectively "legalising child rape," according to activists. Ultra ...

Five Killed in Turkish Drone Strikes on PKK Members in Northern Iraq BAGHDAD (Reuters) -Turkish drone strikes killed five members of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in northern Iraq, Iraqi ...

Amnesty International has raised fears over the rights of women and girls ahead of a forthcoming parliamentary vote on a potential overhaul to Iraq’s Personal Status Law. Under the proposed ...

Iraq is set to pass legal amendments to the country's marriage law that allows men to marry girls as young as nine. Amendments have also been proposed to deprive women of the right to divorce ...

Freelance Iraqi journalists who worked for ABC News are among those honored. A memorial to fallen journalists killed during the war to remove Saddam Hussein from power in Iraq was inaugurated in ...

Iraq Denies Talk of Iranian Attack on Israel From Its Soil (Reuters) - The Iraqi government's Council for National Security said on Wednesday that reports about Iraqi territory being used by Iran ...

By Alissa J. Rubin Iraqi regulators have suspended the license of a Saudi-owned television channel and are taking steps to terminate its right to operate in Iraq after the channel aired a report ...