Iraqi PM: Saddam begging for mercy
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Toppled Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein is said to be miserable and begging for mercy according to Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi. &quot;He is distraught and depressed,&quot; Allawi told the Arabic daily Al-Hayat in an
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Pleading for her life between terrified sobs, kidnapped aid official Margaret Hassan appeared on a videotape Friday urging the British prime minister to abandon Iraq.
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Iraq's prime minister reached out to Sunni Arabs at a national reconciliation conference on Saturday, urging Saddam Hussein-era officers to join the new army and a review of the ban against members of the former dictator's ruling party.
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Iraqi prosecutors asked a judge on   Monday to sentence Saddam Hussein to death for his role in the   killings of 148 villagers after a 1982 assassination attempt in   the village of Dujail.
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HUNDREDS of disabled Iraqis demonstrated in Baghdad yesterday to demand the release of Margaret Hassan, calling her abductors âneanderthalsâ and insisting that their collapsed health system needs the British aid worker, kidnapped by insurgents last
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Facing a death threat from his Iraqi captors, British hostage Kenneth Bigley appeared in a video on an Islamist Web site Wednesday and tearfully pleaded to British Prime Minister Tony Blair to help spare his life, saying, &quot;Please
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Saddam Hussein believes the United States will have to seek his help to quell the bloody insurgency in Iraq and open the way for U.S. forces to withdraw, his chief lawyer said Sunday.
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Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi talks to Hussein al-Sadr (R), a senior Shiite cleric, during a meeting with senior religious leaders in Baghdad Nov. 9. Allawi appealed to militants in Fallujah to lay down
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Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki has condemned Israel's bombing of Lebanon's civilian infrastructure and vowed to push for a ceasefire during talks with his British counterpart Tony Blair.
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Deposed Iraqi President Saddam Hussein is  depressed and has begged the Iraqi government for mercy, Iraq's  Prime Minister Iyad Allawi said in an interview published  Monday.
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THE Iraqi militants who murdered Kenneth Bigley delivered a final affront to his memory yesterday, when they released a videotape of him appealing to the Prime Minister for help moments before he was decapitated.
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Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein appealed to Iraqis from his prison cell to unite against what he called US efforts to sow sectarian divisions, his lawyers say.
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A French lawyer representing Saddam Hussein asked Monday for the International Red Cross to look into reports that the jailed former Iraqi leader has begun a hunger strike.
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BAGHDAD, Oct 13  - Prime Minister Iyad Allawi threatened Wednesday a military assault on Fallujah if the rebel bastion does not surrender Iraq&#39;s most wanted man Abu Mussab al-Zarqawi, while the war-ravaged nation pleaded for aid at an international
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UNITED NATIONS -- Iraqâs interim prime minister appealed to world leaders at the UN General Assembly Friday to unite behind his countryâs effort to reign in spiraling violence and lighten the countryâs foreign debt and broaden support for coalition
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Pope John Paul met Iraq&#39;s interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi on Thursday and told him he hoped a democratic and multi-ethnic Iraq would emerge from &quot;the tragic sufferings of recent years.
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The family of a British hostage threatened with execution in Iraq made a desperate appeal to Prime Minister Tony Blair on Tuesday to meet kidnappers' demands and save his life.