Iraq conjoined twins stable as operation nears end
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Iraqi conjoined twins undergoing a 21-hour separation operation in Saudi Arabia are both expected to survive, a hospital spokesman said on Saturday as the surgery entered its final stages.
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Two female Italian hostages seized in  Baghdad three weeks ago were set free on Tuesday along with  kidnapped Iraqis and Egyptians in a flurry of releases, but an  abducted Briton remained under threat of death.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Saddam Hussein underwent surgery about two weeks ago to repair a hernia and has made a full recovery, a U.S. official confirmed Tuesday...
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Formerly conjoined twin babies were in intensive care cribs Friday as doctors watched closely for signs of any problems in the first critical days following a lengthy separation surgery.
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Conjoined twins from North Dakota have undergone their first procedure leading up to the surgery that will separate them.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq -- A year ago Monday, Saddam Hussein was pulled out of a spider hole in Iraq and hustled off to a secret location. Since then, the former Iraqi leader has undergone a hernia operation, taken
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RAIPUR, India  - Ten-month-old conjoined-twin boys have been separated after five hours of surgery in the central Indian city of Raipur, doctors said on Tuesday.
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Doctors upgraded the condition of separated conjoined 4-year-old twins Sunday to serious but stable.
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BALTIMORE Sept. 23, 2004 - A twin who survived a surgical separation from her sister last week was in critical but stable condition Thursday after hours of reconstructive surgery on her head and scalp.
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The US military said on Saturday it had &quot;absolute confirmation&quot; that Tareq Aziz, Iraq&#39;s former deputy prime minister, was still alive.
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Surgery to separate two German twins who are joined at the head was halted on Saturday evening due to complications affecting one of the girls, Johns Hopkins Medical Institute said on Sunday.
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TONY EASTLEY: The Japanese Government says it will continue its mission in Iraq, despite the beheading of one of its citizens. The troop deployment is unpopular in Japan, but surprisingly, the political fallout
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A twin who survived a surgical separation last week from her sister went back into the operating room at Johns Hopkins Children&#39;s Center for several hours of reconstructive surgery on her head and scalp.
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Japan has said it will keep its troops in Iraq, despite the beheading of a Japanese hostage by Islamic militants. Officials had earlier confirmed that a body found in Baghdad yesterday was that of Shosei Koda
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A pair of conjoined Iraqi twins began separation surgery in the Saudi capital Saturday, the state-run news agency reported.
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Surgery to separate two German twins  who are joined at the head was halted on Saturday evening due  to complications affecting one of the girls, Johns Hopkins  Medical Institute said on Sunday.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Militants sawed off the heads of three hostages believed to be Iraqi Kurds in a grisly videotape that surfaced Sunday, hours after Iraq's prime minister said January elections would be held on schedule and asserted that American and Iraqi troops were winning the fight against an increasingly bold insurgency.    In another sign of continuing instability 17 months into the U.S.-led occupation of Iraq, a suicide car bomb killed three people in Samarra - a northern city that U.S...