Saddam trial judge brother-in-law killed
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Gunmen killed a brother-in-law of the new judge trying Saddam Hussein and badly wounded the man's wife and son, in what the Iraqi government said on Friday was a direct attack on the court by Saddam's followers.
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A U.S. soldier killed in Iraq who was the son of a king in this African country was buried here Saturday in a princely ceremony.
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Sunni sheikh who led local clans to side with US against insurgents is killed by bomb in Iraq.
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Unidentified gunmen shot dead a judge from the governing Palestinian movement Hamas in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, a killing sure to stoke internal unrest.
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The judge in Saddam Hussein's trial throws Saddam Hussein out of court for the third time in a week.
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RAMADI, Iraq  - Eleven Iraqi suspects have been arrested for involvement in the killing of a Sunni Arab tribal leader who helped push al Qaeda fighters from much of Anbar province, his brother said.
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An Iraqi court on Sunday sentenced to death Saddam Hussein's cousin, widely known as "Chemical Ali", for masterminding a genocidal campaign against Iraq's ethnic Kurds in the 1980s.
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The Iraqi trial judge who sentenced former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein to death has asked for asylum in Britain, Al Jazeera television said on Friday.
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Ayatollah Murtada al-Askari, a founding member of Iraq's Shiite Dawa party, which was banned under Saddam Hussein but now is the ruling Iraqi party, died Sunday in Iran, the party said.
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IraqÂs prime minister decided to remove the judge after he said last week that Saddam Hussein was Ânot a dictator.Â
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The British engineer kidnapped three weeks ago in Iraq, Kenneth Bigley, has been killed by his captors. Mr. Bigley&#39;s family Friday confirmed reports that the 62-year-old hostage was murdered by the Muslim extremist group that was holding him.
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An Iraqi court on Sunday sentenced to death Saddam Hussein's cousin, widely known as Chemical Ali, for genocide against ethnic Kurds.
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A Sri Lankan high court judge and his bodyguard are shot dead in the capital, Colombo, police say.
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Gunmen assassinated a judge as he headed to work in Baghdad on Monday, while to the north, a booby-trapped house exploded as Iraqi police searched the building, killing at least two officers and trapping five beneath the rubble, authorities said.
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An Iraqi court on Sunday sentenced to death Ali Hassan al-Majeed, Saddam Hussein's cousin and once one of the most feared men in Iraq, for orchestrating the genocide of tens of thousands of ethnic Kurds.
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Gunmen killed an appeals court judge as he headed to work in the western Baghdad district of Mansour on Monday, police and the deputy justice minister said.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Iraqi judges have started interrogating Saddam Hussein&#39;s former defense minister and the notorious general known as Chemical Ali, who is accused of gassing thousands of Kurds in the 1980s, the head judge in charge of investigating