President Bashar Assad won another seven years in office, getting 97 percent of the vote in a nationwide referendum on his leadership in which he was the only candidate
Some will be limping, some will be limbless, some will appear totally normal, but all will be affected in some way by their experience in Iraq ... forever, and so will their families. Such is war.
A witness to Saddam Hussein's execution in Baghdad said that celebrations broke out after the former dictator died, and that there was "dancing around the body."
Saddam Hussein, the former dictator of Iraq who spent his last years in captivity after his ruthless Baathist regime was toppled from power by the U.S.-led coalition in 2003, has been executed -- hanged for crimes during a brutal crackdown during his reign.
A witness to Saddam Hussein's execution in Baghdad said that celebrations broke out after the former dictator died, and that there was "dancing around the body."
The Baath Party, the political movement that ruled Iraq during the Saddam Hussein era, is warning there will be "grave consequences" if former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein is executed.
Iraq's Shiite prime minister has made overtures to the country's Sunni minority, gestures designed to foster national reconciliation in a country divided by sectarian hatred.
The year's second-highest monthly total of bodies arrived at Baghdad's morgue in August, Iraqi authorities said, but the figures do not include people killed by bombs or other mass attacks.
The chief judge in the Saddam Hussein trial has said he will consider a request for the former Iraqi president and his half-brother to offer testimony on behalf of a co-defendant.
Relatives of former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein's co-accused have taken the stand as the defense began trying to refute crimes against humanity charges that carry a potential death penalty.
A timely analysis of Iraq's sectarian divisions has found the country's leaders still have time to reach "a genuine national compact" that will defuse the seething Shiite-Sunni tensions in the country, now reeling after last week's bombing of a Shiite shrine in Samarra.
The death toll following Thursday's suicide attack in the city of Hangu in northwest Pakistan has reached 30, police sources have told CNN.
In the latest delay involving the Saddam Hussein trial, Tuesday's court session was postponed five days because a number of witnesses were not able to attend, a court official told CNN.
When the trial of former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein resumes Tuesday, the chief judge and his top adviser will be different.
In a newspaper column Friday, L. Paul Bremer, the former U.S. administrator of Iraq, admitted, "I made some mistakes" in Iraq and argued the United States needs to be better prepared for post-conflict operations in the future.
The U.S. military has released eight former Baathist detainees of high value, a military spokesman said Monday.
The trial of Saddam Hussein adjourned for the day Tuesday, with the former Iraqi leader indicating he's unlikely to return when the court reconvenes Wednesday.
Human rights abuses in Iraq are as bad as they were under Saddam Hussein if not worse, former Prime Minister Ayad Allawi has said.
The U.S. Army discovered scores of detainees in poor health at a building run by the Iraqi Interior Ministry during a search for a missing 15-year-old boy, a U.S. general said Monday.
Three U.S. service members have died in separate incidents in Iraq while insurgents targeted Iraqi security forces, authorities said Sunday.
The televised trial of Saddam Hussein and seven co-defendants adjourned Wednesday after three-and-a-half hours, but that was long enough to impart the symbolism of the new Iraq and evoke strong images of the leaders of the fallen regime.
CNN Chief International Correspondent Christiane Amanpour is inside the Baghdad courthouse where the first trial of Saddam Hussein on charges of crimes against humanity is scheduled to begin Wednesday.
On the eve of Saddam Hussein's trial, new footage has emerged of the fateful day in Dujail 23 years ago when the former dictator was the target of an assassination attempt.
A blue sign with yellow writing stands along the highway leading into Qaim, in Iraq's western desert, warning citizens not to cooperate with the Americans. It is signed by al Qaeda in Iraq. Marines remove it.
Iraq's constitutional committee approved a final draft of the Iraqi constitution and put it before the National Assembly on Sunday, despite the rejection of Sunni Arab leaders.
Iraq's three major groups -- Kurds, Shiite Arabs and Sunni Arabs -- continue to debate the proposed constitution, striving to win over critics by Sunday.
Iraq's interim prime minister said Tuesday that lawmakers have made great strides in writing the country's new constitution and have been able to bridge gaps on many issues.
An Iraqi constitution draft was submitted to the National Assembly Monday minutes before a midnight deadline, but three more days are needed to resolve "outstanding" sticking points, the assembly speaker said.
Imprisoned former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein wrote in a letter published Sunday that he is prepared to sacrifice himself for the Arab cause, and called on other Arabs to follow his example.
Syrian President Bashar Assad has said the media and technological revolution sweeping the region and the world is helping his country's foes to undermine and crush the Arab identity.
The Bush administration has hailed the formation of a new Iraqi government as a major step toward bringing stability to the country.
Speaking before U.S. troops in Iraq this week, President George W. Bush bragged of the transitional government's accomplishments. "Iraqis have laid the foundation for a society built on the rule of law," he proclaimed, referring to the court that has been created to try the senior leadership of the former Iraqi government.
A judge and his lawyer son working with the special court that will hear charges of human rights abuse against Saddam Hussein and senior members of his government has been gunned down by insurgents, sources said.
Masked gunmen killed an Al-Hurra television correspondent and his 3-year-old son on Wednesday in the southern city of Basra, an Iraqi army official said.
The U.S. military faces between 13,000 and 17,000 insurgents in Iraq, the large majority of them backers of ousted Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein and his Baath Party, a senior military official said Tuesday.
As the Iraqi elections near, women are changing the face of politics.
Trials of some of Iraq's former Baath Party leaders will begin next week, interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi has said.
About 10,000 U.S. and 2,000 Iraqi forces began an assault on Falluja on Monday, aimed at driving insurgents from the city.
U.S. forces have exhumed a mass grave in northwestern Iraq and uncovered the remains of hundreds of people.
The war crimes trial of deposed Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein won't begin any time soon because deteriorating security is hampering information-gathering in the case, a senior U.S. official said Friday.
Insurgent fighters launched deadly attacks across Iraq on Saturday, killing a U.S. soldier and at least seven Iraqis in separate attacks.
By simple count, it appears to be a success. Of the coalition's 55 individuals on the Pentagon's "Most Wanted Iraqis" deck of playing cards, 43 have been killed, captured or have surrendered, including Saddam Hussein and his sons.
U.S. intelligence officials on Friday said Ahmed Chalabi, a member of the Iraqi Governing Council with ties to senior Pentagon officials, gave intelligence secrets to Iran so closely held in the U.S. government that only "a handful" of senior officials know them.
As the United States moved toward war with Iraq, exiled opposition leader Ahmed Chalabi was one of America's best friends -- the beneficiary of millions of U.S. taxpayer dollars for his Iraqi National Congress, with easy access to top officials in Washington.
Iraqi Governing Council member Ahmed Chalabi said the raid on his compound Thursday was engineered by Baathists who control the Iraqi police and who are now protected by the Coalition Provisional Authority.
Iraqi Governing Council member Ahmed Chalabi said a raid on his compound Thursday was engineered by Baathists who control the Iraqi police and who are now protected by the Coalition Provisional Authority.
John Kerry has been a very good Democrat these past few weeks, roaming the country, talking up the bran-muffin issues that Democrats really, really care about: education and health care.
The man who designed Iraq's new national flag has told CNN he attempted to create a "simple and powerful" design.
"The remnants of Saddam Hussein's regime know they have no future in a free Iraq," U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said Thursday, restating the U.S. stance even as coalition officials in Baghdad confirmed that some of Saddam's former Baath Party loyalists may be allowed to take back their old jobs.
The White House confirmed Thursday that the administration is moving to change a postwar policy that blocked members of Saddam Hussein's Baath Party from Iraqi government and military positions.
Iraqi leaders have set up a tribunal to try ousted dictator Saddam Hussein and other members of his Baathist regime, a spokesman for the Iraqi Governing Council said Tuesday.
U.S. and coalition troops battled supporters of Shiite Muslim cleric Muqtada al-Sadr for a third day Tuesday, with clashes reported in Baghdad and at least four cities in the country's south.
The U.S.-led coalition said Tuesday it is increasing the rewards it offers for the capture of the insurgents attacking coalition soldiers, Iraqi security personnel and civilians who work with the coalition.
U.S. officials Wednesday confirmed reports that Saddam Hussein, in a document found when he was captured, warned supporters to be wary of cooperating with foreign "jihadists."
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