One Indonesian woman said she has illegally married Middle Eastern tourists at least 15 times to support her family. To her temporary husbands, she calls herself Cahaya. Her first contract marriage ...

IRBIL, Iraq -- Shaimaa Saadoun is haunted by her memory of being forced into an abusive marriage to a 39-year-old man just after she turned 13. Her impoverished family near the southern Iraqi city of ...

Timur Soykan reported on a court case into the alleged marriage in the İsmailağa sect, a politically influential religious community. The revelation of an alleged marriage of the daughter of a ...

IRBIL, Iraq — Shaimaa Saadoun is haunted by her memory of being forced into an abusive marriage to a 39-year-old man just after she turned 13. Her impoverished family near the southern Iraqi city of ...

Despite being illegal under article 10 of the Personal Status Law (1959), which governs all family matters for Muslims in Iraq, marriages entered into outside of the Personal Status Court continue to ...

Iraqi lawmakers have passed amendments that give courts more authority in family matters, the Associated Press reported, and critics are concerned the move may spark a rise in child marriages.

Many women's organizations met and read out a statement in front of the courthouse before the hearing started, while members of the religious sect also gathered at the same place. The first hearing of ...

Nureja Khatun, 19, holding her 6-month-old baby, requests police to release her husband Akbor Ali, sitting in a police van as they take him to court in Morigaon district of the Indian northeastern ...

Her first contract marriage was to a tourist from Saudi Arabia. He was in his 50s, and she was 17. They wed in a small ceremony in a guest room at a three-star hotel in Jakarta under a controversial ...