There’s the immigrant who f—ing suffered and came here and lived the American dream,” Idan, 33, said this week on the 20th anniversary of the Iraq War. The one-time beauty queen — who ...

Iraq is sending a contestant to the Miss Universe pageant for the first time since 1972, after holding its first national beauty pageant in more than 40 years. Shaymaa Abdelrahman, 20, won Miss ...

Beauty pageants were always at the back of her ... She is currently deployed to Erbil Air Base in Iraq in support of Operation Inherent Resolve as the executive officer for the Syrian Logistics ...

Regional leaders gathered in Baghdad on Saturday to attend the annual Arab League Summit. They commemorated the union with a ...

"I'm very happy to see Iraq going forward," the new beauty queen told AFP as she tried to fend off a scrum of admirers hoping to clinch a selfie. "This event was huge and put a smile on the faces ...

A candidate for Miss Iraq beauty contest poses at the ancient archaeological site of Babylon, outside the modern city of Hilla, south of the capital Baghdad, on December 17, 2015. The beauty ...

The last time someone was crowned Miss Iraq was so long ago that the winner of this year's pageant had not yet been born. The last pageant was in 1972, when Wijdan Burhan al-Deen went on to ...

Islamic State monsters have made contact with the newly-crowned Miss Iraq beauty queen, saying that they will kidnap her if she does not join the terror organisation ...

The winner of Iraq's first beauty pageant since 1972 says her new job will be to show that Iraq is still a "country of beauty and culture in the face of terrorism and violence." Shayma Qassim, 20, has ...

Miss Iraq 2017's family had to flee their homeland after receiving death threats over their daughter's Instagram selfie with Miss Israel. Six months later the two beauty queens have been reunited ...