Ali Hassan al-Majid , the cousin of Saddam Hussein also known as "Chemical Ali," became the leading defendant Thursday in the genocide trial currently before the Iraqi High Tribunal...
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) Wednesday claimed the refusal of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to release two Department of Justice memos points to a cover-up of unlawful abuse. The memos, which discuss...
Former Ethiopian dictator Mengistu Haile Miriam was sentenced to life imprisonment Thursday after he was convicted on genocide charges in absentia at the conclusion of a 12-year trial. Mengistu and 72 other former officials were...
Faced with possible indictment by an Italian judge, US and Italian intelligence agents implicated in the 2003 kidnapping and extraordinary rendition from Milan of Egyptian cleric Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr Tuesday...
The Pitcairn Supreme Court found two more men guilty Tuesday of rape and related offences against children as young as seven. The latest conviction of Shawn Christian and Brian Young follow the six other men convicted in...
The former head of the Iraqi Ministry of Electricity Ayham al-Samaraie , who escaped from a Baghdad prison in December, has said he plans to return to his home in the United States. Al-Samaraie, a member...
Less than 24 hours after his execution , the body of ousted Iraqi president Saddam Hussein was buried in his home village of Ouja near Tikrit just before dawn local time...
An unofficial and grainy video of the entire execution of Saddam Hussein , including his actual hanging, was posted on the Web late Saturday. The official video, broadcast ...
World political and religious leaders were divided Saturday in their reaction to the execution of Saddam Hussein . In a statement released from his ranch at Crawford, Texas, late Friday night Eastern Time...
Iraqi Shiites Saturday celebrated the execution of Saddam Hussein . Since the Iraqi government did not impose a mandatory curfew on Baghdad as it did in November at the time of Hussein's conviction...
