Iraq says a high-level officer during Saddam Hussein's rule has been hanged for his involvement in the 1980 killing of a ...

Monday that a high-level security officer under Saddam Hussein has been executed for his involvement in the 1980 killing of prominent Shiite cleric Mohammed Baqir al-Sadr and other grave crimes.

Former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein has been executed, according to Iraqi state television and other media outlets. Saddam had been sentenced to... Iraq Executes Saddam; Challenges Remain Former ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Syrian Democratic Forces gather outside the city of Derik in north-east Syria on Thursday. The Kurdish-led forces’ grip on the ...

Dfat says it is aware Australians are among 5,704 detainees transferred out of Syrian prisons and into Iraqi custody ...

BAGHDAD — Iraqi authorities have executed at least 60 people so far in 2014, a United Nations report said Sunday, expressing concern that “irreversible miscarriages of justice” were taking place in ...

Human Rights Watch has warned that thousands of detainees transferred to Iraq face a serious risk of abuse and unfair trials.

BAGHDAD — Iraq announced on Monday that a high-level security officer during the rule of Saddam Hussein has been hanged for his involvement in the 1980 killing of a prominent Shiite cleric. The ...

The agency did not say when al-Qaisi was executed. Al-Sadr was a leading critic of Iraq's secular Baathist government and Saddam, his opposition intensifying following the 1979 Islamic Revolution in ...