ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Iraq’s justice ministry on Sunday said it is holding 65,000 prisoners across the country, excluding ...

The Syrian Sunni religious scene has fragmented over ... I believe it will keep unchanged the law on the organization of waqfs (religious foundations, editor's note), which abolished the position ...

The measures in question include a general amnesty law, new personal status legislation, and a law on the restitution of ...

By Guest Contributor By Islam SalahIraq’s Federal Supreme Court has recently put a temporary stop to three major laws that were passed by parliament last month following a legal challenge. These laws ...

Iraq’s highest court has temporarily suspended the enforcement of three contentious laws passed by parliament last month, ...

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

BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq’s top court suspended implementation Tuesday of three controversial laws passed last month by the country’s parliament, including amendments to a legislation that activists said ...

A Pierce County judge found Friday that a man serving life in prison for the 1996 murder of a drug dealer in Tacoma had rehabilitated himself while incarcerated and earned a 36-year sentence that will ...

(Hadi Mizban/The Associated Press) The parliament also passed a general amnesty law seen as benefiting Sunni detainees and that's also seen as giving a pass to people involved in corruption and ...

The law grants retrials to those convicted of a number of crimes. The Taqadom party, the most influential Sunni bloc, welcomed the adoption of the amnesty law. Iraq's Sunni community has been the ...