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"If this happens it's probably going to be one of the most impactful events in Iraq's post-2003 history," says expert. Proposed Bill Amendment in Iraq Could Allow Girls as Young as 9 to Marry Skip ...
Overall attendance during the Iraq War was 68% amongst young girls compared to 82% of young boys, while girls in rural areas had a mere 25% attendance rate. [28] [27] The wars forced women to work in agriculture rather than pursue a degree as necessary items such as food and water started to become more scarce and expensive. [25]
Beginning in 2012, dozens of girls and women traveled to Iraq and Syria to join the Islamic State (IS), becoming brides of Islamic State fighters. While some traveled willingly, including three British schoolgirls known as the Bethnal Green trio, [1] [2] others were brought to Iraq and Syria as minors by their parents or family or forcefully.
In 2016, Miss Iraq Organization sent Miss Mesopotamia 2015 winner Susan Amer Sulaimani (Noori), a Kurdish student in Baghdad to participate in the Miss Earth 2016 pageant as Iraq's first representative since 1972 in the Big Four international beauty pageants. [3] [4] She wore a dress instead of a bikini during the pageant's press conference. [3]
A dramatic rescue of a little girl trapped by ISIS gunfire in Mosul was captured Friday on video. Watch this ex-Green Beret run through ISIS gunfire to save a little girl Skip to main content
Elizabeth Tsurkov (Hebrew: אליזבט צורקוב; born November 11, 1986) [1] [2] is a Russian-Israeli researcher who was kidnapped in Baghdad in March 2023, and is being held by the group Kata'ib Hezbollah, an Iraqi militia backed by Iran.
Four senior ISIS leaders were killed in last month's U.S.-Iraqi military raid in western Iraq including the group's top operations leader in Iraq and its chief bombmaker for whom the United States ...
The Girl Who Escaped ISIS Farida Khalaf (born circa 1995) is the pen name [ 1 ] of a Yazidi woman who was abducted by ISIS in 2014 and sold into slavery. She escaped to a refugee camp, and in 2016 published a book about her experience, The Girl Who Escaped ISIS .