In Iraq, a new law could legalize marriage for children as young as nine years old. The proposed amendment to Iraq’s personal status law, would allow clerics of Muslim sects to govern marriage contracts. The bill contradicts national law in Iraq and would allow religious men to enforce illegal marriages and force women under the age of 18 to live… Read more »
Once we thought having slaves, and buying and selling slaves was over. Its starting up again. Migrants in Libya are being sold for at least 400 US dollars. The people were going to Libya for a new start at life, but once they got there, they were on “sale” for auction. Human beings are being sold again, not pieces of… Read more »
Iraqi security forces have found mass graves that could contain up to 400 bodies in an area recently retaken from the Islamic State group, an Iraqi official has said. The bodies of civilians and security forces were found in an abandoned base near Hawija, a northern town retaken in early October, the Kirkuk governor, Rakan Saed, said on Sunday. He did not… Read more »
Iranian officials have raised the death toll from Sunday’s earthquake of 7.3 magnitude on its border with Iraq to at least 530, making it the deadliest in the world this year.
A new law that could legalise marriage for children as young as nine in Iraq would be “catastrophic”, setting back women’s rights by half a century, activists said.
The Nile River has been a source of pride for the Egyptian people since civilization began. Not to mention the fact that a majority of Egypt’s drinking water is sourced from the Nile River. When an Egyptian publicly insults the Nile, other Egyptians take that personally, because of the national pride connected to the Nile. Sherine Abdel-Wahab, a famous Egyptian… Read more »
From the start, the case of the missing Lebanese prime minister strayed wildly from the mainstream of the Middle East’s usual plots. Everything that has followed Saad Hariri’s sudden and reportedly forced resignation last week has struck the same startling tenor: his apparent house arrest, the Saudi Arabia-Lebanon mutual accusations of declaring war, the French president’s sudden in-person intervention.
Autopsies on the bodies of 26 Nigerian teenage girls recovered from the Mediterranean this month have confirmed that they drowned.
Ali Tuwaileb who is in charge of a high security anti-organised crime complex in Misratah where the bodies of Islamic State (IS) group fighters are being stored opens one of the refrigerated containers at a make-shift morgue on October 26, 2017 © Mahmud Turkia / AFP 1.2K Hundreds of corpses of slain Islamic State militants have been kept in refrigerated… Read more »
The US Africa Command announced the U.S. military conducted another airstrike in Somalia on Tuesday killing ‘several militants’ belonging to the terrorist group, al-Shabaab. A defense official tells Fox that a drone carried out the strike 60 miles northwest of the capital, Mogadishu. The U.S. military has carried out airstrikes for six consecutive days in Somalia beginning last Thursday, killing… Read more »