In early August, fighters from the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria swept into the small Yazidi village of Maturat in Iraq's Sinjar district and took women to the Badush prison in Mosul. Hundreds ...

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According to the information on Rawshe Qassim's identification card, the woman is currently 137 years ... the census conducted on November 20th, Iraq's population now stands at 45.4 million.

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Iraq’s top court has suspended implementation of three controversial bills passed last month by the country’s parliament, ...

Former Iraqi MP Joseph Sliwa provides an update on his campaign urging authorities in Mosul to abandon a road expansion project which has destroyed a section of the ancient Wall of Nineveh.