LONDON — Saddam Hussein's execution found the United States and Iran sharing rare common ground Saturday, with both countries saying the hanging of the former dictator was in the best interest of Iraq ...

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) – Iraqis awoke Saturday to television images of a noose being slipped over Saddam Hussein’s neck and his white-shrouded body, the pre-dawn work of black-hooded hangmen. In Baghdad’s ...

LONDON -- Prime Minister Tony Blair said Monday he opposed the death penalty for Saddam Hussein even though the deposed Iraqi leader's trial had reminded the world of his brutality. Asked about Saddam ...

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- A witness testified at Saddam Hussein's genocide trial Tuesday that he survived a massacre by feigning death when Iraqi soldiers shot at Kurdish detainees. The witness, who testified ...

BAGHDAD, Nov. 5 -- A divided and violence-ridden Iraq broke into starkly disparate displays of emotion on Sunday after judges in Baghdad condemned former president Saddam Hussein to hang for crimes ...

As he, his half brother and another senior official in his regime were convicted and sentenced to death by the Iraqi High Tribunal, Saddam yelled out, "Long live the people and death to their enemies.

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) – Thinner but combative, Saddam Hussein returned to court Wednesday for the first time since his hunger strike, saying that if he’s convicted, he wants to die like a soldier by ...