UNICEF reported in April 2023 that 28% of girls are married before the legal age of 18, although under Iraqi law, girls as ...

BAGHDAD : The owner of a reception hall in Iraq, where 134 people were killed in a fire at a wedding last year, has been ...

Girls as young as nine-years-old may soon be allowed to marry under Iraqi law. Officials in the country are currently mulling ...

A fire swept through a Christian wedding party in northern Iraq last Tuesday, killing at least 107 people. Here is what we know. It ripped through al-Haitham Hall, a large event venue which is ...

The owner of a reception hall in Iraq, where 134 people were killed in a fire at a wedding last year, has been sentenced to 10 years in prison, a court document showed.

Nearly 100 people have been killed and many more injured in a blaze at a wedding celebration in Qaraqosh in northern Iraq. Eyewitnesses have described to the BBC scenes of horror and panic as the ...

I’m sure not but they would allow the oppressed Iraqi population to do so.’ Human Rights Watch said: ‘Girls belong on the playground and in school, not in a wedding dress.’ Earlier this ...

Iraq's parliament, dominated by Shia conservatives, is considering a law that would lower the legal age of marriage for girls to 9. This controversial amendment, facing strong opposition from ...