Caught Live on Instagram: "In a stark and unsettling broadcast on Iraqi state television—later aired worldwide by Al Jazeera—on March 23, 2003, several American soldiers captured during the early days of the Iraq War were interviewed under duress. The prisoners, members of the 507th Maintenance Company ambushed in Nasiriyah, appeared bloodied, bandaged, and visibly terrified as they answered questions from an off-camera interviewer. One soldier, when asked about his purpose in Iraq, responded qu

In January, Iraq passed an amendment to its personal status law, which allows citizens to choose sect-specific religious courts to oversee their marriage affairs. ⁠ ⁠ Campaigners say that an amendment to the country’s personal status law is creating a black market in vulnerable girls.⁠ ⁠ But a group of Iraq’s most prominent female lawyers, journalists and activists, known as Coalition 188, has spent the past year attempting to combat and reverse the law, as well as other loopholes created by the