Former Saddam Deputy Arrested in Iraq
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Iraqi authorities claimed on Sunday to have captured Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, the most wanted member of Saddam Hussein's ousted dictatorship, but there was confusion over the report, as the Iraqi defense minister said word of his arrest was "baseless."   There have been incorrect reports of al-Douri's arrest in the past as U.S. and Iraqi forces hunt for the man who was once one of Saddam's most senior deputies...
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BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Iraqi officials thought they had the king of clubs. Yesterday morning, the Iraqi Defense Ministry spokesman announced the capture of one of Iraq's most wanted men, Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, a confidant of Saddam Hussein and the highest-ranking regime official at large.
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U.S. and Iraqi troops on Thursday detained the deputy health minister, a follower of a radical Shiite cleric, a spokesman said.
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DIWANIYA, Iraq  - A former police chief in southern Iraq has been arrested and accused of assisting insurgents, police said on Saturday.
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BAGHDAD, Dec. 16 -- Saddam Hussein met with a defense attorney Thursday for the first time since the former Iraqi president was captured a year ago and days before several of his top aides are due to appear in court for hearings on alleged war crimes.
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Police have arrested a Dutch national  once sought by the United States on suspicion of supplying  thousands of tons of ingredients for mustard gas and nerve gas  to the Iraqi government of Saddam Hussein.
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A former Iraqi foreign minister and deputy prime minister took the stand Wednesday as a defense witness in the trial of Saddam Hussein.
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U.S. and Iraqi forces raided an Iraqi Health Ministry complex in central Baghdad today and arrested a deputy health minister, an Interior Ministry official said. Without naming the deputy minister, a U.S. military statement said Iraqi army forces had captured a suspect implicated in the deaths of several Iraqi government officials.
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U.S. and Iraqi forces detained the deputy health minister during a raid on the Health Ministry building in central Baghdad on Thursday, a ministry spokesman and witnesses said.
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U.S.-backed Iraqi forces seized a man  believed to be the most wanted Saddam Hussein aide still on the  run in a bloody raid in which 70 of his supporters were killed  and 80 captured, Iraqi officials said on Sunday.
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An Iranian officer accused of smuggling powerful roadside bombs into Iraq was arrested Thursday in northern Iraq, the U.S. military said.
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BAGHDAD -- An Iraqi court changed the sentence yesterday for Saddam Hussein's former deputy from life imprisonment to death by hanging for his role in the killing of Shi'ites, ignoring pleas from the United Nations and human rights organizations.
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A former MP and democracy campaigner Riad Seif is arrested in Syria, local human rights groups say.
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Police have arrested a Dutch national suspected of supplying thousands of tons of ingredients for mustard gas and nerve gas to Iraq under toppled leader Saddam Hussein, prosecutors said Tuesday.
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Lt Gen Talib al-Lahibi, who previously served as an infantry officer in Saddam Husseinâs army, was detained on Thursday in the province of Diyala, northeast of Baghdad, said Lt Col Steven Boylan, a spokesman for coalition forces in Iraq.
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Iraq said yesterday it had captured a top foreign-based supporter of the anti-government insurgency and would begin to try former figures of Saddam Hussein&#39;s regime next week.
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US-led forces in Iraq say they have arrested an Iranian officer operating in the north of the country.