Shaymaa Abdelrahman, the 20-year-old who won Iraq's first national beauty pageant since 1972, told NBC News that she's "afraid of nothing." The Miss Iraq 2015 pageant was faced with threats that ...

Six months ago, a simple selfie between two Miss Universe contestants provoked a backlash that pushed one to flee her home country, her family in tow. Sarah Idan was representing Iraq at the 2017 ...