After Iraq legalizes child marriage, Baghdad bridal market booms as young girls sold to older men

Baghdad’s bridal industry has seen a massive boom since Iraq legalized child marriage, and human rights organizations have ...
Duluth News Tribune

Mortar attack on school kills at least five girls in Baghdad

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- The girls had just finished taking an exam and were gathering in an inner courtyard at a school in a mainly Sunni section of western Baghdad on Sunday when a mortar round crashed down ...
The Washington Post

For Baghdad's Uprooted Girls, School Offers A Hard Haven

BAGHDAD -- The textbooks at their new school might call their predicament "forced internal displacement," but the Iraqi girls living this phenomenon describe it in different terms. Safwan Abbas ...
Forbes

The Rights Of Women And Girls In Iraq On A Downward Spiral

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr Ewelina U Ochab is a Forbes contributor, lawyer, and author. Aug 17, 2024, 09:08am EDT Aug 19, 2024, 05:34am EDT A woman walks ...
Sioux City Journal

Car bomb kills six near Baghdad school for girls; U.S. reports seven soldiers killed

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) -- A car bomb exploded Tuesday near a Baghdad junior high school for girls, killing six people, and seven American soldiers were killed in two days of bombings in and around Baghdad ...