Although a largely secular society since its independence from the United Kingdom in 1932, the major religion in Iraq is Islam (divided among Sunnis and Shias), followed by an estimated 95% of all ...

Fr. Jens Petzold, a Swiss priest based in the Kurdistan region of northern Iraq, speaks to Vatican News about his work ...

IRAQ has effectively legalised child marriage, with girls as young as nine being able to marry after amendments to decades old laws. The change on Tuesday has increased the interpretation of ...

Iraq’s National Security Agency says it has arrested a former high-level security official for his involvement in the 1980 ...

Iraq's parliament today passed several laws ... nine - under the Ja'afari school of Islamic law followed by many Shiite religious authorities in Iraq. Proponents of the changes, which were ...

From genocide in Syria and Iraq to ethnic cleansing in Burma, religious oppression and persecution destroyed countless ...

Initial reports indicate that the committee is primarily targeting the Qurban (Sacrifice) Group, a religious faction active ...