Halabja

Sabih Kareem Najeeb was IN hell and came back to tell the tale. It happened on March 16, 1988. A day earlier, the Peshmerga, the Kurdish liberation…

Saddam Hussein's notorious cousin "Chemical Ali" was executed Monday, according to Iraq's government spokesman, about a week after he was sentenced…

Saddam Hussein's notorious cousin "Chemical Ali" was convicted Sunday of crimes against humanity and received his fourth death sentence, this time…

Six families nervously awaited the DNA tests on the young man who returned from Iran. They wondered: Could this be their son who was just an infant…

While most of us are happy with a vacation by the sea or on the piste, some spend their annual holiday in places many would not dare…

Iran closed major border crossings with northern Iraq on Monday to protest the US detention of an Iranian official the military accused of weapons…

If the US or Israel bombs Iran's nuclear facilities, can Iran strike back at Israel with weapons of mass destruction? This is obviously a vital…

Two decades after Iraq's military laid waste to Kurdish villages, the Iraqi High Tribunal on Sunday sentenced Ali Hassan al-Majid, known as "Chemical…

Eight people were killed on Thursday when a suicide car bomber, apparently targeting a senior city official, sent a ball of fire tearing through a…

Saddam Hussein opened his second trial with a show of defiance Monday, refusing to enter a plea on charges of genocide and war crimes connected to…

The Iraq tribunal Tuesday announced new criminal charges against Saddam Hussein and six others for alleged genocide and crimes against humanity in a…

Shrapnel had split open his head and shredded his back and legs, but through semi-consciousness Aras Abded Akram smelled cooking gas and then rotten…