In 2007, U.S. President George W. Bush accused the Quds Force of providing Shiite Muslim militants with roadside bombs to kill American forces, though experts inside and outside the U.S ...
The proposal to overturn it is the latest step in a more than decade-long push to erode women’s rights by conservative Shia Muslim groups, a coalition of which now dominate the Iraqi parliament.
The conservative government led by a coalition of Shia parties aims to pass the proposed ... is in line with strict interpretation of Islamic Sharia law and aims to “protect” young girls.
Iraq’s parliament, which is dominated by a coalition of conservative Shia Muslim parties, is preparing to vote through an amendment that would overturn the country’s “personal status law”.
A three-judge bench of the Supreme Court has upheld the validity of the Uttar Pradesh Board of Madrasa Education Act, 2004, which was struck down by Allahabad High Court in March this year.
The Democratic Party’s Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar – the first two Muslim women to serve in the United States Congress – have won re-election to the US House of Representatives. Tlaib ...