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The Kuwaiti government has raised the legal marriage age from 15 to 18 after amending the Personal Status Law. According to an official decree published in the Kuwait Today gazette, Article 26 of the law was modified to prohibit the…

A joint research team from the British Museum and Iraqi authorities has uncovered the world’s oldest bureaucratic administrative system through 2,300-year-old clay tablets found at the site of Girsu in southern Iraq, which was once part of the Akkadian Empire.…

Iraq is set to roll out a five-year anti-poverty strategy after a recent census revealed that over seven million people live below the poverty line, local reports said. The plan, expected to launch by the end of the first quarter,…

Residents of Syria’s Alawite heartland are cautiously returning home following a wave of sectarian violence that left over 1,400 civilians dead, predominantly Alawites, The National News reported. The killings occurred after a government offensive led by Hayat Tahrir Al Sham…

A suspected suicide bombing targeted a paramilitary convoy in Noshki, Balochistan, on Sunday, killing at least five people, including three Frontier Corps troops, and injuring over 43 others, Anadolu Agency reported. The Pakistan Army’s media wing reported that a vehicle-borne…

Ziya Karim, Director General of Mass Graves at the Martyrs Foundation, disclosed that Iraq contains at least 221 documented mass graves, with 96 dating back to the Baath regime era. Of these, 134 graves have been exhumed—80 from the Baath…

The Government of Japan has signed a significant agreement with UNICEF, committing nearly $8 million to support vulnerable children and women in Syria, UNICEF reported. This funding aims to benefit approximately 250,000 individuals by improving access to primary health care,…

A coalition of a dozen Yazidi associations and the Syriac Union Party, a Christian political group, have condemned Syria’s newly-drafted constitutional declaration, asserting that it marginalizes Kurds and religious minorities, Rudaw reported. In their statements, these groups labeled the interim…

Hundreds of civilians, predominantly from the Alawite community, have been killed in Syria’s coastal region following a wave of violence that erupted on March 6. According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, at least 1,383 civilians have lost their…

Iraq holds the top spot globally for the number of palm trees and ranks fourth in date production, according to the country’s Ministry of Agriculture. Technical Undersecretary Mithaak Abdul-Hussein stated that as of 2025, Iraq has over 22 million palm…