According to some media outlets, including Iran International, thousands of Iraqi militiamen have already crossed into Iran to help Tehran quell the ongoing protests. “There is no interest or justification for the Iraqi government to send reserve forces to Tehran, nor does Iran need additional reinforcements from Baghdad,” Sheikh Ghaith Al-Tamimi, a prominent Iraqi scholar … Read more
Iraq’s decision to introduce the Ja’fari law in January means girls can marry based on perceived “maturity and physical ability”. Baghdad’s bride industry has seen a huge boom since Iraq outlawed child marriage, and human rights groups have warned that girls are being auctioned off in black market sales to elderly men, a Sunday Times … Read more
Peter Arnett, the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter who spent decades dodging bullets and bombs to bring the world eyewitness accounts of war from the rice paddies of Vietnam to the deserts of Iraq, has died at 91. Arnett, who won the 1966 Pulitzer Prize for international reporting for his coverage of the Vietnam War for The … Read more