A voice for Hussein's victims
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SEDAR, Iraq -- The first thing Abdullah Mohammed Hussein wants to talk about on the witness stand at Saddam Hussein's trial are his seven dead children, and how they were dumped into a shallow grave in northern Iraq after they were shot in the head, along with their mother.
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BAGHDAD, Dec. 3 -- Attorneys for former president Saddam Hussein on Sunday formally appealed his death sentence for the killing of 148 Shiite men and boys from the town of Dujail in the 1980s, a spokesman for the Iraqi High Tribunal said.
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A shaken 57-year-old Kurd testified Thursday that Saddam Hussein aggressively told him to "shut up" when he pleaded for the release of nine relatives who disappeared in an offensive on his northern Iraqi village nearly two decades ago.
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Saddam Hussein appeared at his genocide trial on Wednesday, despite writing to the chief judge to say he would no longer attend court sessions in protest at being repeatedly silenced.
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A Kurdish chemistry teacher testifying at Saddam Hussein's genocide trial Monday tearfully described seeing more than 40 people dead from an alleged chemical attack in 1988, including his mother and two daughters.
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BAGHDAD -- Saddam Hussein met with a defense lawyer yesterday for the first time since his capture a year ago, days before several of his top aides are due to appear in court for hearings on alleged war crimes.
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PARIS When I heard George W. Bush and Ghazi al-Yawar, the interim Iraqi president, speak of elections as the &quot;savior&quot; for freedom-hungry Iraqis in the midst of war, I was reminded with Queen Marie Antoinette&#39;s infamous solution to the starving French
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Lawyers for Saddam Hussein and two former aides sentenced to death lodged appeals on Sunday, the Iraqi prosecutor said, following a trial slammed by some rights experts as unfair and fundamentally flawed.
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Lawyers for the former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein lodge an appeal against his death sentence.
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BAGHDAD -- On trial facing genocide charges, Saddam Hussein used his courtroom time yesterday to urge Iraqis to resist forces he said were trying to divide the country.
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BAGHDAD, Sept. 2 -- A coalition of 300 Iraqi tribal leaders on Saturday demanded the release of Saddam Hussein so he could reclaim the presidency and also called for armed resistance against U.S.-led forces.
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ARBIL, Iraq  - A genocidal campaign under Saddam Hussein against Iraq's Kurds must never be forgotten, officials said on Monday at a ceremony for 371 victims, whose grieving relatives demanded those responsible be put to death.
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TONY EASTLEY: Iraq has ushered in the first anniversary of the capture of Saddam Hussein - tallying up more dead and injured. Overnight at least eight people died in a suicide bomb attack in the capital Baghdad.
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Specific sentences and charges against the six former Saddam Hussein regime officials in the so-called Anfal trial in Iraq, according to the International Center for Transitional Justice:
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A PLEA for help in finding the body of murdered Iraq hostage Ken Bigley was broadcast throughout the Gulf states yesterday. The British Ambassador to Iraq, Edward Chaplin, appealed on the Arabic TV station
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A heartfelt plea for help in finding the body of murdered Iraq hostage Ken Bigley has been broadcast throughout the Gulf states. The British Ambassador to Iraq, Edward Chaplin, has appealed on the Arabic TV
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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