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RABAT - The suicide of a Moroccan teen who was forced to marry her rapist has sparked outraged calls for reform, but

Can Hakkaoui be the driving force to change article 475?

Weight of tradition, inertia of justice system can make change of Moroccan rape victim marriage law slow.

the weight of tradition and the inertia of the justice system can make change slow here.…

BASRA (Iraq) - Studies by human rights groups in Iraq have found that there are a growing number of child prostitutes

'Government doesn’t want to take any action'

Observers believe child prostitution is particularly widespread among Iraq’s displaced families, who have been forced to flee due to violence in their hometown

among the nation’s many displaced persons. NIQASH…

It’s a policy fierce enough to cause great suffering among Iranians -- and possibly in the long run among Americans,

The great oil blockade of 2012 may still be largely financially focused, but it carries with it the same dangers of escalation and intervention -- as well as future bitterness and blowback -- as did the campaign of the early 1950s, arguesJuan Cole

too. It might, in the end, even deeply harm…

Iraqis thought a better life was at hand when Saddam Hussein's regime fell in April 2003, but after nine years of

Saddam statue fell, yet Iraqis’ suffering continues

After nine years of violence and suffering, some Iraqis say hopes were not realised, believe overthrowing Saddam is ‘big mistake’.

By W.G. Dunlop – BAGHDAD

violence and suffering, many are still waiting for their…

RABAT- Upon the orders of King Mohammed VI, the government of Morocco decided to dispatch 14 tons of foodstuffs to

More than 200,000 people have fled their homes

Government of Morocco decides to dispatch 14 tons of foodstuffs to assist Niger in dealing with flow of Malian refugees, meeting their most pressing basic needs.

assist Niger in dealing with the flow of Malian refugees and…

I was out of the country only nine days, hardly a blink in time, but time enough, as it happened, for another small,

Tom Engelhardt explores how the new national intelligence labyrinth is being built, why it’s neither a version of Soviet-style totalitarianism in the making nor does it have anything to do with democracy, an American republic, or the Constitution.

airless room to be added to the…

DUBAI - The Muslim world is increasingly in the “eye of the cyclone”, with disasters and crises affecting tens of millions

38 of 57 OIC member countries, 55 million people affected by disasters, chronic emergencies in 2011 compared to 36 countries, 48 million people affected in 2012.

of people in Muslim countries last year, a senior official with the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) told a…

JERUSALEM - Thousands of Palestinian demonstrators clashed with Israeli troops at a West Bank checkpoint on

Some Land Day rallies turned violent

At least dozen rallies held across Israel, occupied territories, with demonstrators also marching towards Israeli border in Lebanon, Jordan.

Friday as hundreds more gathered by Jerusalem's Old City to mark Land Day.

Rallies…