Iraq

Over 20 years ago, a group of queer women launched a zine that left an indelible impression on queer collectivizing in India. Its legacy lives on.

Activists say the proposed law would “allow the Iraqi government to legally get away with murder.”

The father put a knife to his son’s throat and shouted, “Are you gay? Are you gay?”

Pence is meddling in the U.S. Agency for International Development, potentially destabilizing longstanding religious tensions in the Middle East.

Carlson refuses to apologize, saying only that he was “caught saying something naughty.”

Two years after a joint force took the Iraqi city from ISIS, the infamous building they used for executions is being torn down.

His last words were “I want my mom.”

He was out the door in less than ten minutes after bribing his captors.

Abu Omer, also known as “White Beard,” was captured in the Iraqi town of Mosul.

Hobby Lobby Stores has agreed to forfeit thousands of ancient religious artifacts smuggled from the Middle East.

It is unknown who put up the pro-LGBTI posters in Baghdad, and probably for a good reason.

Why won’t conservatives help those who face death get asylum in the U.S. instead of whining about how Starbucks doesn’t say “Merry Christmas?”

The two men are married now and live in Seattle.

Where were the mothers of U.S. military personnel killed in Iraq?

The man was executed in the Iraqi city of Rawa after being accused of engaging in homosexual acts.

The jihadist group has carried out hundreds of executions as it has imposed its brutal version of Islamic law, many of them photographed or videotaped.

BAGHDAD, Iraq — Extreme Islamic militia groups operating in Baghdad, Basra, Al-Sadr City and in the Al-Habibea region of Iraq have killed as many as 56, and possibly as high as one hundred, young gay and lesbian Iraqis, according to officials in the Iraqi Interior Ministry and international LGBT activists.

A gay Iraqi has been refused Norwegian asylum and told to “go home and be discreet.” The High Court accepted that Azad Hassan Rasol was gay and that gay men in Iraq are at risk, including at risk of being killed, but it ruled that Rasol ‘must comply with Iraq’s socio-cultural norms’.

Deliberate attacks against gay men in Iraq has risen significantly this year at the hands of Iraqi militias and death squads, and authorities in Baghdad are doing nothing to stop the violence, according to a report released Monday by an international human rights organization. The 67-page report by New York-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) , […]