Between the months of January and August of , Germany saw the largest incident of mass rape known in history, where an estimated two million German women were raped by the Soviet Red Army soldiers, as written by Walter Zapotoczny Jr. Between the months of April and May, the German capital Berlin saw more than , rape cases according to hospital reports, while East Prussia, Pomerania and Silesia saw more than 1. Hospital reports also stated that abortion operations were being carried out daily across all German hospitals. This caused the deaths of no less than , girls and women due to the spread of diseases, especially that many eyewitnesses recounted victims being raped as much as 70 times in that period. Red Army soldiers would mass rape German women as a kind of revenge against their enemy: The German army. In addition to not being in contact with women for long periods causing their animal instinct to be heightened. In his book, Zapotoczny said that even female Russian soldiers did not disapprove of the rapes, some finding it amusing.

The status of women in Iraq at the beginning of the 21st century is affected by many factors: wars most recently the Iraq War , sectarian religious conflict, debates concerning Islamic law and Iraq's Constitution , cultural traditions, and modern secularism. Hundreds of thousands of Iraqi women are widowed as a result of a series of wars and internal conflicts. Women's rights organizations struggle against harassment and intimidation, while they work to promote improvements to women's status in the law, in education, the workplace, and many other spheres of Iraqi life, and to curtail abusive traditional practices such as honor killings and forced marriages.

CNN Here's some background information about the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal which took place during the Iraq war. Chat with us in Facebook Messenger. Find out what's happening in the world as it unfolds. Detainees stand in the Abu Ghraib prison yard while waiting to be released on June 27, , in Baghdad, Iraq. An investigation into the treatment of detainees at the prison was prompted by the discovery of graphic photos depicting guards abusing detainees in