The ICC is a Hague-based court with the power to prosecute war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide. Today, it explicitly recognises sexual slavery, enforced prostitution, forced pregnancy, ...

The Personal Status Law, adopted in 1959, has been amended to allow Iraqis to choose whether they want their marriages governed by Sunni law or the Jaafari Code, in accordance with Shiite law. Once ...

Apple's also got the streaming debut of Spike Lee's "Highest 2 Lowest" (Sept. 5), a remake of the Kurosawa classic "High and Low," starring Denzel Washington as a music exec who faces a dilemma when ...

Four years ago today, the U.S. military completed its chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan. Since then, the Taliban has imposed Islamic law and severely restricted the rights of girls and women. John ...

The tombs, believed to be over 2,300 years old, were unearthed at the edges of the Mosul Dam reservoir in the country's north.

U.S. Sen. Joni Ernst, an Iraq War combat veteran and Iowa's first woman elected to Congress, is expected to announce next ...

Elaha Safdari was 17 and had just earned her maiden call-up as a goalkeeper for Afghanistan's women's football team when she was forced to flee Kabul during the Taliban takeover in 2021.

U.S. Sen. Joni Ernst, an Iraq War combat veteran and Iowa’s first woman elected to Congress, is expected to announce next ...

U.S. Sen. Joni Ernst, an Iraq War combat veteran and Iowa’s first woman elected to Congress, is expected to announce next month she will not seek reelection, leaving another vacancy in an Iowa ...

Third-term Rep. Ashley Hinson from the Cedar Rapids area in eastern Iowa, is widely viewed as likely to enter the race. Two of Iowa’s four congressional seats already have been among the more ...

Venice: Mark Obenhaus co-directs an unflinching epic that connects the dots between the Mỹ Lai Massacre and the genocide in Gaza.

As Senate Republicans work to maintain their majority in the chamber, Ernst is joining a departing wave of her peers.