BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) – A Kurdish witness at Saddam Hussein’s genocide trial testified Wednesday that he survived a massacre by running and falling into a ditch full of bodies as troops fired on his ...

To anyone interested in holding the world’s worst despots accountable for their crimes, the Iraqi High Tribunal’s conviction of Saddam for the 1982 massacre in Dujail should be cause for celebration.

Saddam Hussein’s rights have been ”violated” in the legal process following his capture, one of his top United States lawyers said on Tuesday on the eve of the deposed Iraqi leader’s trial opening on ...

Halabja Massacre comes to mind with the words of a child who fell on the ground due to a chemical gas on March 16, 1988: "Dayê bêhna sêva tê" (in Kurdish means; Mom, there is a smell of apple). On ...

KARBALA, Iraq - Hundreds of thousands of Shiite pilgrims worshipped at the city's holy shrine Tuesday, chanting, dancing, even slashing cuts on their bodies in a frenzied religious ritual that had ...

Karbala, 23 April 2003 (RFE/RL) -- Some one million Iraqi Shi'ites are in the holy city of Karbala today for the culmination of a pilgrimage that had been banned by Saddam Hussein's regime. The event ...

Lebanon extradited a man said to be a grandnephew of Saddam Hussein to Iraq, where he is accused of involvement in a massacre by the Daesh (Islamic State) extremist group, a security source said ...

CAMP AS SALIYAH, Qatar -- Marines defeated Iraqi loyalists making a final stand in Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit on Monday, and Pentagon officials declared an end to the war's major fighting. "I ...

TEHRAN, Iran (UNHCR) - Roghay and Ashraf are seven. The two schoolgirls were born in Tehran, but they may be leaving soon. Their parents left their home in Karbala, southern Iraq, more than 10 years ...

Saddam said the elections "aimed at splitting Iraq into sectarian and religious divisions and weakening the (Arab) nation," said Bushra Khalil, another member of the defense team. The bombings in ...