Tue, 21-Oct-2025

Victims turned activists: Iraqi women battle abuse

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BAGHDAD- After a day’s work in an Iraq public sector job, Azhar offers legal support to women who are victims of domestic abuse, something she knows well given her experience with a brutal husband. After she was forced into marriage by family pressure, Azhar, 56, battled in court for almost a decade to divorce the … Read more

Anti-IS coalition ‘combat mission finished’: Iraq official

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BAGHDAD:  The US-led international coalition against Islamic State jihadists has “finished its combat mission” in Iraq, the country’s National Security Adviser Qassem al-Aaraji said on Twitter Thursday. Iraqi interior ministry media official General Saad Maan also told a press conference that “the coalition will have completely finished the transition to a non-combat mission before the end of … Read more