Former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein and two co-defendants are sentenced to death for war crimes and crimes against humanity, including murder. The... Saddam Hussein Sentenced to Death JOHN YDSTIE, host ...

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Hard as it is to imagine, some people around the world are taking exception to the execution of Saddam Hussein. If ever there were a candidate for the death penalty, surely Saddam was it -- a dictator ...

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Saddam Hussein was dead, but his legacy was more alive than ever. As Iraqis across the country awoke to the news that the former dictator had been hanged, the bitter remains of his ...

BAGHDAD, Iraq — Iraq’s highest court rejected Saddam Hussein’s appeal Tuesday and said the former dictator must be hanged within 30 days for his role in the 1982 slayings of 148 Shiite Muslims from a ...

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 ...

Several Iranian bloggers talked about Saddam Hussein's death and remembered the Iran-Iraq war. Alpar says this year can be considered one of the worst for dictators, adding that Monday's newspapers ...

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

Saddam Hussein may have lost his life today. But he really died on Dec. 13, 2003. That was the day he was found by U.S. forces, hiding in a hole on a relative’s farm outside his hometown of Tikrit. No ...

Maki Kubba says he is personally familiar with the brutality of the Saddam Hussein regime. Kubba spent 40 days in an Iraqi prison where he says he was routinely tortured. Today Kubba is praising the ...

An Iraqi court on Sunday sentenced former president Saddam Hussein to death for crimes against humanity. The reaction to Saddam's sentencing... Court Sentences Saddam to Death by Hanging Former Iraqi ...

(Reuters) - Following are reactions to the death sentence a U.S.-backed Iraqi court imposed on Saddam Hussein on Sunday for crimes against humanity. "Obviously we deplore the verdict of the death ...