UDAIM, Iraq — The widow was nervous at first but smiled after she fired 160 rounds from a Kalashnikov at a black-and-white target. She was wearing something rarely seen on an Iraqi woman — a ...

BAGHDAD — Iraqi police officials have dropped plans to disarm policewomen and give their guns to male officers after an outcry from critics, who said the move was a sign of religious zealots ...

Female police officers say they not only want to serve their country but to challenge themselves and Iraqi society. Baghdad, 8 July 2004 (RFE/RL) -- Twenty-four-year-old Hajear and her sister ...

The 30-year-old recruit and 20 other women training at a dusty Iraq police academy north of Baghdad are a critical part of the U.S. and Iraqi response to the latest deadly tactic of al-Qaida in Iraq: ...

KIRKUK, Iraq, Aug. 18, 2008 - Thirty-seven Iraqi women attended their first day of training Aug. 16 at the Kirkuk Police Academy in northeastern Iraq. Officials said it's been a year since the ...

Iraqi Police Jobs Draw Women Candidates More than 200,000 Iraqi men have signed up for the nation's new security force despite the deaths of at least 300 police in the wake of the U.S.-led effort ...

A women wearing a belt strapped with explosives blew herself up near a popular market and a Shiite mosque in restive Diyala province north of the capital Wednesday, killing eight civilians and ...

Guards in a security convoy opened fire on a car at an intersection in central Baghdad on Tuesday, killing two Christian women, police said. The Iraqi government said preliminary reports indicated ...

A nominal percentage of women in security force roles in both federal Iraq and the Kurdistan Region combined with the lack of senior positions are filled by female officers within police and ...

The Iraqi government has ordered all policewomen to hand in their guns for redistribution to men or face having their pay withheld, thwarting a U.S. initiative to bring women into the nation's ...