BAGHDAD, Iraq – A Kurdish woman described huddling with her children in a cave as warplanes bombarded her village with chemical weapons in testimony Wednesday at the genocide trial of Saddam Hussein.

Defendants in the second Saddam Hussein trial insisted on Tuesday that Iraq’s military was attacking Iranian troops and Kurdish rebels only when it launched the Anfal campaign in the 1980s in which ...

The show trial of Saddam Hussein took a significant turn last week with the charging of the ousted Iraqi president and six others with genocide and crimes against humanity for their part in the bloody ...

KURDISTAN - In April, ousted dictator Saddam Hussein was charged with genocide and crimes against humanity for his role 1988's Anfal campaign against Iraq's Kurdish population. Now, as Iraqis wait for ...

Saddam Hussein and others accused in the Anfal trial begin their defense against charges that they were responsible for the deaths of tens of thousands of Kurds. They say the Anfal mission targeted ...

Defendants in the new trial of Saddam Hussein insisted on Tuesday that the military was attacking only Iranian troops and Kurdish rebels when it launched the Anfal campaign in the 1980s in which tens ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region — Kurds are remembering the Anfal campaign on its 30th anniversary when 182,000 people were massacred by the former Baathist regime in the 1980s. In Erbil on Saturday, an ...

THE genocide of the Kurdish people must be recognised as one of the worst crimes against humanity, a senior Iraqi Kurdish official told the Morning Star today. As Kurds and others marked the 33rd ...

After 50,000 confirmed dead, the figures are uncertain. Kurdish sources and human rights groups – working on the number of villages destroyed – claim 180,000 men, women and children perished between ...

The Iraqi High Tribunal must improve its practices if it is to do justice in the upcoming Anfal trial in which Saddam Hussein and Ali Hassan al-Majid are accused of genocide, Human Rights Watch said ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Iraq has arrested the man accused of overseeing torture and executions at Nugra Salman prison during the genocidal Anfal campaign that targeted Kurds in the late 1980s. The ...

In May 2003, I stood alongside the late British MP and humanitarian Ann Clwyd at a mass grave near Baghdad, a site that bore the remains of thousands executed by Saddam Hussein's regime. Among the ...