It seems there's another hoax involving a young woman in Syria, but we're pretty sure this one isn't going to turn out to be a male blogger from Edinburgh.

Iman al-Obeidi is finally in the United States two months after she was deported back to Libya and began fighting to leave the country again. Obeidi spent 54 days in a U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees facility in Romania and arrived in New York last Wednesday. She then took a flight to the undisclosed location that…

Last month Iman al-Obeidi, who told the world she was raped by Gadhafi's troops, made a harrowing escape from Libya to Tunisia. Now she's on the move again after being deported to Libya.

Jessica Kenyon found out she was pregnant when she was summoned by her army commander in Korea and told she would be charged with adultery. In fact, Kenyon says, she'd been raped by another soldier. And the only way to get an abortion would be to leave the country.

A survey of 59,000 Libyan refugees confirms reports that rape is being used as a weapon of war by Gadhafi's forces. Psychologist Dr. Seham Sergewa was treating children affected by the conflict when several mothers told her they were raped. She added a question about sexual violence to a survey she distributed in…

New information out of Libya suggests the brutal rape Iman al-Obeidi suffered is far from an isolated incident. The International Criminal Court is investigating reports that rape is being used as a weapon of war by Gadhafi's forces, and hundreds of women have been victimized.

Amid headlines of NATO taking charge of air operations and CIA presence on the ground in Libya are headlines of three women in very different positions. Iman Obeidi, the woman who bravely told of her rape, is sadly still missing.

Your average National Security Council Staffer probably does not attract the level of attention Samantha Power has. True, Power was already a star at her particular crossroads of human rights activism, journalism and academia, winning a Pulitzer long before she had a four-hour dinner with a young Senator named Barack…

Musa Ibrahim, a spokesman for the Libyan government, "expressed frustration" that he keeps being asked about Iman Obeidi, the woman who burst into a Tripoli hotel Saturday shouting about being gang-raped by Qaddafi thugs. But maybe that's because he's already expended so much energy lying about what happened to her.

Among the four New York Times journalists just released after six days of captivity in Libya is one woman: Lynsey Addario, a photojournalist with a distinguished record in war zones. It appears from the journalists' accounts to their Times colleague that she was treated as badly and as well as her colleagues, with an…

Activists are worried about an Afghani television host who has been accusing women's shelters of promoting prostitution. Says a female chief prosecutor, "Our government wants to talk with the Taliban about peace and no one is talking about women's rights."