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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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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Saddam Hussein&#39;s cousin and lieutenant Ali Hassan al-Majid and former defence minister Sultan Hashim have appeared before an investigating magistrate, an Iraqi judge said.
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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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BAGHDAD -- The chief judge in Saddam Hussein's genocide trial was replaced yesterday amid complaints from Shi'ite and Kurdish officials that he was too soft on the former Iraqi leader, a move that could raise accusations of government interference in the highly sensitive case.
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Gunmen assassinated an Iraqi judge as he was leaving his home in eastern Baghdad on Tuesday, police sources said.
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BAGHDAD, June 8 -- A large band of insurgents laid waste to a police commander's house north of Baghdad on Friday, killing the man's wife, a son, two brothers and 10 guards -- including many from his extended family -- and kidnapping at least two of his children, Iraqi security officials said.
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A new judge expelled a defiant Saddam   Hussein from his genocide trial on Wednesday and defense   lawyers stormed off in protest after the government sacked the   chief judge, throwing the month-old case into turmoil.
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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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The brother of a kidnapped Iraqi businessman, who was a longtime resident of Italy, said Monday that the Italian government told the family that the man was killed by his captors in Iraq.
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A 54-year-old Shiite jurist will preside as chief judge in the trial of Saddam Hussein and six others for their role in the 1980s campaign that killed an estimated 100,000 Kurds, a court official said Sunday.
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Baghdad: Iraqi judges questioned one of Saddam Hussein&#39;s most infamous lieutenants as they began investigative hearings of top officials of his ousted regime.
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Six American troops, five Iraqi police officers and a senior judge were killed during a deadly 24-hour period of violence spanning Monday night and Tuesday, and a video broadcast on Arab satellite television showed an American hostage pleading for his life with a rifle pointed at his head.
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Saddam Hussein&#39;s cousin and feared lieutenant Ali Hassan al-Majid, known as &quot;Chemical Ali,&quot; and former defense minister Sultan Hashem appeared before an investigating magistrate on Saturday, an Iraqi judge said.
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The spiritual mentor of Al Qaeda ally Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, a Muslim cleric who justified Zarqawi&#39;s beheading of hostages in Iraq, has been killed in a US air strike, according to associates and relatives.
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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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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.