On April 8, 1991, the UN Security Council adopted Resolution 687, the first post-Gulf War disarmament resolution, which declared, among other things, that Iraq not commit or support any act of ...

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 ...

It has often been repeated that the reason Iraqis haven’t greeted American forces with flowers and smiles is that the U.S. failed to come to the aid of those Iraqis who–with the encouragement of the ...

Driving through Baghdad in the days before the Gulf War in January 1991, I was struck by the giant pictures of Saddam Hussein that lined the streets. Iraqi troops were on every corner. We couldn’t go ...

JACKSON -- On Aug. 21, Saddam Hussein's cousin, Ali Hassan al-Majid, better known as "Chemical Ali," went on trial in Baghdad. He is charged with war crimes for his part in the "violent suppression" ...

JERUSALEM, Jan. 24 -- The Israeli defense minister said in an interview published today that during the 1991 Persian Gulf War, President Saddam Hussein had packed his suitcases and picked a place of ...

Israel’s wars in the Middle East changed forever in the predawn hours of January 18, 1991. That’s when Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein responded to George H.W. Bush’s invasion of Iraq by firing eight ...

[JURIST] The Iraqi High Tribunal (IHT) – formerly known as the Iraqi Special Tribunal [official website] – has approved the disinterment of bodies buried in mass graves [AHR backgrounder] southwest of ...

[i]n a top secret letter, written in 1987 by the Director-General of Al Muthanna [a large chemical weapons production and storage facility near Baghdad] to senior government officials, the importance ...

Hussein was raised by his mother, her second husband Ibrahim al-Hassan and her brother Khairallah Talfah. Hussein’s first wife, Sajida, was his first cousin, the daughter of his maternal uncle ...