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A severe drought is threatening Iraq’s southern marshes _ the traditional site of the biblical Garden of Eden _ just as the region was recovering from Saddam Hussein’s draining of its lakes and swamps to punish a political rebellion.
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The Supreme Court seemed skeptical on Monday about holding the current Iraqi government responsible in American courts for the acts of Saddam Hussein’s regime.
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In an April 9 story about a lawsuit accusing three companies of providing chemical weapons materials to Saddam Hussein’s government, The Associated Press, relying...
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Since the Gulf War, Saddam Hussein become America’s preeminent enemy. More than just the de jour face of evil for U.S. news, the tyrant become the butt of late...
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AP, Baghdad
An Iraqi official says authorities believe they have found another mass grave from Saddam Hussein’s regime in southern Iraq.
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Iraq’s government on Tuesday called on the presidential council to ratify the death sentences against former officials from Saddam Hussein’s regime so that...
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Iraq’s U.N. ambassador on Monday urged the United Nations to commemorate yearly the anniversary of a chemical weapons attack by Saddam Hussein’s government...
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AP, London
Officials drafting an intelligence dossier that was used to help justify the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq discussed worries that Britain risked exaggerating the...
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New documents show that British officials who drafted a prewar dossier on Iraq worried that Britain risked exaggerating the threat posed by Saddam Hussein’s...
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AP, Baghdad
For years he was the urbane, cigar-smoking face of Saddam Hussein’s regime, who argued his boss’ case in the international corridors of power.
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AP, Baghdad
Saddam Hussein’s former foreign minister, Tariq Aziz, was convicted of crimes against humanity and sentenced to 15 years in prison Wednesday for the 1992...
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AP, Baghdad
An Iraqi court has sentenced Saddam Hussein’s former foreign minister, Tariq Aziz, to 15 years in prison.
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Not long after Saddam’s status has toppled in Baghdad in front of the whole world and President Bush declared victory on a U.S. carrier, Iraq, regrettable for the...
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AP, Baghdad
Iraq’s prime minister on Friday called for Iraqis to forgive and reconcile with those who collaborated with the former Sunni-dominated regime of Saddam Hussein.
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AP, Baghdad
An Iraqi judge has given death sentences to three former officials in Saddam Hussein’s regime for slayings and abuses against Shiites a decade ago.
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AP, Baghdad
Iraq took another step toward healing its rift with Kuwait on Thursday as government leaders welcomed the highest-ranking Kuwaiti envoy since Saddam Hussein’s...
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Kuwait’s deputy prime minister visited Iraq on Thursday in the highest-level visit by a Kuwaiti official since Saddam Hussein’s 1990 invasion of the Gulf...
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Lebanese dancers, a Shakespeare production from Kuwait portraying Saddam Hussein as “Richard III” and incredible wedding dresses from the Arab world are...
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AP, Baghdad
Iraq’s restored National Museum is reopening Tuesday, nearly six years after looters carried away antiquities and treasures as U.S. troops stood by in the chaos...
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Iraq’s infamous Abu Ghraib prison reopened, with a new name and official promises Saturday of humane treatment in a lockup notorious as a center for abuse _ both...
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