In a new report, Human Rights Watch documents the persistence of female genital mutilation in Iraqi Kurdistan, and calls upon the Kurdish Regional Government to ban the practice.
Schoolchildren marched in Erbil against Iranian shelling of Iraqi Kurdistan, while Kurdish journalists have launched a campaign to demand justice in the torture-slaying of a colleague.
Amnesty International urged European leaders to stop the upcoming deportation of asylum seekers to Iraq because their human rights may be violated in unsafe regions of the country.
The US Navy will appeal an appeals court ruling overturning the conviction of US Marine Sgt. Lawrence Hutchins III in the kidnapping and murder of an Iraqi civilian in Hamdania.
Iraq’s electoral commission announced that a partial recount of the parliamentary vote will not alter seat allocations. Delay in forming a new government may leave Iraq vulnerable to violence.
Textile workers leaving their factory shift in Hilla were among hundreds of Iraqis injured and 85 killed in a series of bomb attacks across the country on the bloodiest day this year.
A Virginia military jury acquitted US Navy SEAL Matthew McCabe on charges of assaulting a high-profile Iraqi detainee, implicated in the killing of four US contractors in Fallujah.
The US Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces heard arguments in the appeal of Army Spc. Charles Graner, sentenced to 10 years for abuses committed at Baghdad’s Abu Ghraib prison.
Defense Secretary Robert Gates is rejecting calls for a probe into a 2007 case of “collateral murder” in Baghdad by US forces, following the release of video footage on WikiLeaks.
The coalition led by Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki asked the Independent High Electoral Commission to recount ballots cast in the parliamentary election, alleging fraud.
A federal judge has ruled that the Research Triangle Institute can be sued in the United States for the deaths of two Iraqi women killed by their security guards.
The death toll from bomb attacks in Baghdad reached 37 as Iraqis voted in the country’s parliamentary election, while a car bomb again targeted Shi’ite pilgrims in Najaf.
