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SULAIMANIYAH, Iraq – A woman burned alive by her husband, others shot dead by a father or a teenage brother -- bloody violence against women has spiked in northern Iraq's Kurdish region. The autonomous area, keen on projecting an image of a relative haven of stability and tolerance in...

Overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) in the violence-free Kurdistan region of Iraq are appealing to the Philippine government to lower the alert level status and lift the deployment ban it imposed in January 2020 following violent protests outside the United States Embassy in Baghdad at that time....