Kurd witness mocks caged Saddam
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A Kurdish man tells Saddam Hussein's trial how he found his family in a mass grave, and mocks Iraq's ex-leader.
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By SAMEER N. YACOUB and JAMAL HALABY  BAGHDAD, Iraq - A former Kurdish rebel testified Monday he temporarily lost his sight in a chemical weapons attack by Saddam Hussein's forces nearly two decades ago. He removed his glasses so the court could see his swollen eyes.
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The judge in Saddam Hussein's genocide   trial opened hearings on Tuesday with a stern lecture to the   former Iraqi leader to behave himself or be kicked out of the   courtroom.
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Human Rights Watch gives details of torture and abuse in prisons in the Kurdish area of northern Iraq.
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The trial of Saddam Hussein for   genocide against Kurds resumed on Thursday in a central Baghdad   courtroom, with a witness taking the stand to describe how his   village was attacked in 1988 by artillery and warplanes.
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Indonesian Muslim cleric Abu Bakar Bashir told a court on Thursday his terrorism trial was a joke and mocked prosecutors by challenging them to file more bombing charges against him so the &quot;thrill&quot; was complete.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - A 56-year-old Kurdish-American woman told of seeing people sickened and dying during an alleged chemical attack carried out by Saddam Hussein's forces, as the genocide trial of the ex-president resumed Monday after nearly a three-week break.
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The elderly Muslim cleric who is on trial for the bombings in Bali and at the JW Mariott Hotel in Jakarta, Abu Bakar Ba&#39;asyir, mocked the court on Thursday and challenged it to pile on the charges.
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A Syrian insurgent held at Abu Ghraib prison testified by video Tuesday that Army Spc. Charles Graner merrily whistled, sang and laughed while brutalizing him and forced him to eat pork and drink alcohol in violation of his Muslim faith.
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Gruesome tapes of Saddam Hussein&#39;s most feared henchman threatening to cut up his thousands of victims &quot;like cucumbers&quot; have been disclosed as Iraqi war-crimes judges began court proceedings against him yesterday.
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The ex-Iraqi general known as "Chemical Ali," who is accused of using chemical weapons attacks to kill thousands of Kurds, will be the first detained former Saddam Hussein regime figure to stand trial next week, a government official said Wednesday.
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Conditions at the Abu Ghraib prison were so "deplorable" that rats and wild dogs were a common sight and edible food and water were scarce, a witness testified Wednesday in the penalty phase for a soldier who has pleaded guilty to abusing detainees.
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An eyewitness account of the vicious battle to retake the  Iraqi city
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Saddam Hussein's genocide trial resumed Monday with Kurds still angry with the chief judge for telling the ousted president that he was not a dictator.
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Saddam Hussein's trial on genocide charges against the Kurds resumed Monday after an 11-day break. The court was expected to hear more witnesses against the former Iraqi president and six other co-defendants, who have pleaded innocent to charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity for their alleged roles in a military offensive against the Kurds, codenamed Operation Anfal.
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An Iraqi detainee forced to commit degrading sexual acts in the notorious Abu Ghraib prison came face to face with his American torturer yesterday during an American court martial held outside Baghdad.
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A former military officer on trial for the mass killing of Iraqi Kurds in the 1980s testified Thursday he was defending the country from Iran and that U.S. commanders should also face prosecution for waging an "illegal" war in Iraq.