PETER W. GALBRAITH, author of "The End of Iraq," was on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee staff in the 1980s and 1990s, with responsibility for Iraq. THIS WEEK, a Baghdad court convicted Ali ...

Two decades after Iraq's military laid waste to Kurdish villages, the Iraqi High Tribunal on Sunday sentenced Ali Hassan al-Majid, known as "Chemical Ali," and two others to death for their roles in ...

Baghdad: Kurds in the self-governing Iraqi Kurdistan, especially in Sulaimaniya, are calling for Ali Hassan Al Majid's execution in a public square in the Kurdish town of Halabja and in front of its ...

Saddam Hussein's notorious cousin "Chemical Ali" was convicted and sentenced to death by hanging on Sunday for ordering the gassing of Kurds in 1988, killing more than 5,000 in an air raid thought to ...

[JURIST] Iraqi officials on Monday executed [press release, in Arabic] Ali Hassan al-Majid [BBC profile; JURIST news archive], better known as "Chemical Ali," for ordering the Kurdish village of ...

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