BAGHDAD, Dec. 30 -- Former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein was hanged in the predawn hours of Saturday for crimes against humanity in the mass murder of Shiite men and boys in the 1980s, sent to the ...

After a nine month long trial, the Iraqi High Tribunal sentenced former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein to death by hanging. Two other defendants, half brother and his former intelligence chief Barzan ...

BAGHDAD — The chief prosecutor asked an Iraqi judge Monday to put deposed dictator Saddam Hussein to death for crimes against humanity, capping months of grim testimony over the alleged 1982 massacre ...

What was he convicted of? Saddam Hussein was convicted ofwar crimes and crimes against humanity, including murder, in the deaths of 148 Shiite Muslims in the town of Dujail, Iraq. Al Jazeera reported: ...

WASHINGTON — No one doubts Saddam Hussein is guilty of gruesome crimes, but Catholic scholars are mixed about whether his death sentence is justified by Church teaching. Cardinal Renato Martino, ...

Saddam Hussein was sentenced to death by hanging Sunday for his role in mass killings in 1982, causing mixed reactions. Capital sentences in Iraq are automatically appealed. John Burns of The New York ...

The New York Times and the Los Angeles Timeslead with the death of Gerald R. Ford, the 38 th president of the United States. His wife, Betty Ford, issued a statement late last night but did not ...

JERUSALEM — If one asks an average Israeli to list the subjects on which all Israelis agree, he or she will have quite a problem doing so. When one examines the general Israeli view toward the late ...

BAGHDAD — The location was a secret. The timing was unannounced. The prosecutors were not identified as they stood silently in the chilly marble and granite courtroom, facing defendants secured in a ...

Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, who had eluded capture for 17 years, was Mr. Hussein’s right-hand man in a government that dealt brutally with Iraqi civilians and unleashed catastrophic regional wars. By Abdi ...

BAGHDAD, Nov. 5 -- A divided and violence-ridden Iraq broke into starkly disparate displays of emotion on Sunday after judges in Baghdad condemned former president Saddam Hussein to hang for crimes ...

As he, his half brother and another senior official in his regime were convicted and sentenced to death by the Iraqi High Tribunal, Saddam yelled out, "Long live the people and death to their enemies.