BAGHDAD, Iraq – Saddam Hussein ordered plans drawn up for a chemical weapons attack on Kurdish guerrilla bases in northern Iraq in 1987, according to a letter signed by his personal secretary that is ...

Baghdad - Saddam Hussein ordered plans drawn up for a chemical weapons attack on Kurdish guerrilla bases in northern Iraq in 1987, according to a letter signed by his personal secretary that is among ...

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — A Dutch court on Wednesday ordered a businessman convicted of selling Saddam Hussein raw materials for mustard gas to pay compensation to victims of chemical weapon ...

BALTIMORE (CN) - Iraqi expatriates and the Kurdish National Congress say three U.S. companies sold equipment and chemicals that Saddam Hussein needed to make the poison gas he used to kill thousands ...

Halabja Massacre comes to mind with the words of a child who fell on the ground due to a chemical gas on March 16, 1988: "Mom, there is a smell of apple". Whatever I write will not be enough to ...

Mr. Hussein sat stone-faced in a courtroom in the fortified Green Zone of Baghdad, listening as prosecutors gave a detailed account of how Mr. Hussein and six co-defendants embarked on an eight-stage ...

BAGHDAD, Iraq – Saddam Hussein ordered plans drawn up for a chemical weapons attack on Kurdish guerrilla bases in northern Iraq in 1987, according to a letter signed by his personal secretary that is ...

The United States believes the Syrian government employed a sarin-like nerve agent in Tuesday's deadly attack in the country's northwest. Here are the key facts about sarin, which was discovered in ...

Late in the morning of March 16, 1988, the Iraqi army began bombing the Kurdish town of Halabja, some 15 miles from the Iranian border. Halabja s residents were more or less expecting the attack; ...

In Halabja in Northern Iraq, Saddam Hussein’s chemical weapons attack there killed about 5,000 people in March 1988. A trial is underway in Iraq related to the attack. More than 4,800 survivors are ...

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Saddam Hussein ordered plans drawn up for a chemical weapons attack on Kurdish guerrilla bases in northern Iraq in 1987, according to a letter signed by his personal secretary that is ...