B A G H D A D, Iraq, July 1, 2004 -- Defiant, belligerent and a little anxious, former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein appeared before a single Iraqi judge in a courtroom near Baghdad today to hear ...

BAGHDAD, Iraq – Wearing a crisp white shirt, charcoal pinstriped jacket and full but groomed beard, the man in court looked more like a businessman than a humbled prisoner, and his tone was defiant ...

Saddam Hussein and a co-defendant were thrown out of court on Tuesday after the former leader began to shout during his trial on charges of genocide against Iraq’s Kurdish population. Saddam ...

Iraq’s former dictator Saddam Hussein was executed on06. Following his capture by US forces in 2003, he was prosecuted by the ...

Saddam Hussein was ejected from his genocide trial for the second consecutive day following heated arguments with the chief judge Tuesday. Saddam’s former defense minister, Sultan Hashim Ahmad al-Tai, ...

After the squabbling, the court heard the first two defense witnesses for Saddam's half brother and ex-chief of his intelligence services, Barzan Ibrahim. One witness was Sabawi Ibrahim al-Hassan, an ...

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BAGHDAD, Iraq – The first witnesses in the Saddam Hussein trial offered chilling accounts Monday of killings and torture using electric shocks and a grinder during a 1982 crackdown against Shiites.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Ousted Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein was back in court on Tuesday to face charges of genocide against ethnic Kurds, two days after being sentenced to hang for the killing and torture ...

Former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein is removed from a third straight court session after repeated clashes with the presiding judge. Saddam and six co-defendants are accused of gassing tens of thousands ...

BAGHDAD, Iraq — Iraq’s highest court rejected Saddam Hussein’s appeal Tuesday and said the former dictator must be hanged within 30 days. The sentence has already stoked Iraq’s sectarian rage, with ...

An Iraqi appeals court has upheld the death sentence imposed on Saddam Hussein at his first trial for war crimes. The court said Saddam must be hanged within 30 days for the killing of 148 Shiites in ...