Iraq’s Independent High Electoral Commission (IHEC) announced that it has overturned the disqualification of a candidate, ...

No party won enough seats to form a government on its own, likely setting up months of talks to select the next leader.

This is MORNING EDITION from NPR News. I'm Renee Montagne. Authorities in Iraq have referred Saddam Hussein to stand trial for a 1982 massacre in a Shiite village. No date for the trial has been set, ...

A CURIOUS THING seems to have happened on the way to the war against Saddam Hussein. Despite President Bush’s oft-stated commitment to “regime change” in Iraq, media reports have been rife with ...

Mohammed al-Sudani pitches himself as someone who can keep Iranian influence in check, but his vote share may not be big ...

Last week the man preparing Iraq’s declaration, the chief of its inspections-monitoring directorate, General Hussam Mohammed Amin, repeated Saddam’s constant claim: Iraq has no more weapons of mass ...

WASHINGTON – President Bush said Monday the United States will unleash war against Iraq unless Saddam Hussein flees his country within 48 hours. The president warned Americans that terrorists may ...

Saddam Hussein took the witness stand Wednesday to criticize the court proceedings in his trial as a "comedy." Madeleine Brand discusses the trial with New York University law professor Noah Feldman.

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Iraqi authorities charged Saddam Hussein with genocide Tuesday, accusing him of trying to exterminate the Kurds in a 1980s campaign that killed an estimated 100,000 -- the first move ...

Stripped of all insignia of rank, the soldier delivered to Iraq’s infamous Abu Ghraib prison seemed just another anonymous victim of Saddam Hussein’s capricious cruelty. He was swiftly executed, his ...