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A source close to Rizgar Amin , the chief judge of the Iraqi High Criminal Court presiding at the Saddam Hussein trial , said Friday that Amin would "withdraw" from his position, announcing his reasons at...

A top official at the US Department of Justice's Regime Crimes Liaison Office in Baghdad has suggested that the current trial of former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein could end as early as June, with further trial...

Issam Ghazzawi, a defense lawyer for Saddam Hussein , said Tuesday that Hussein, on trial for his involvement in the 1982 Dujail massacre , would prefer to die by firing squad rather than...

A spokesman for the Iraqi High Criminal Court (formerly the Iraqi Special Tribunal ) trying Saddam Hussein and seven co-defendants said Saturday that a Kurdish investigative judge for the tribunal had been targeted in an unsuccessful assassination attempt....

The Saddam Hussein trial resumed in Baghdad Wednesday, with the former ruler ending his boycott of court proceedings . The Iraqi High Criminal Court (formerly the Iraqi Special Tribunal ) heard testimony from its...

Defense lawyers for Saddam Hussein said Tuesday that the former Iraqi ruler will be in court when his trial resumes Wednesday. During proceedings earlier this month, Hussein boycotted a trial session ...

US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Tuesday accused the international community of failing to live up to its obligations to help bring Saddam Hussein to justice, saying the "effective boycott of Saddam's trial...

Proceedings in the Saddam Hussein trial continued Wednesday without the former president in the courtroom, after Hussein promised not to return to an "unjust court". There was a delay in proceedings Wednesday...

"Witness A," the first woman to testify in the Saddam Hussein trial , gave her testimony Tuesday behind a curtain and with her voice distorted by computer to protect her identity, despite some technical problems which caused...

Chief Judge Rizgar Mohammed Amin, presiding over the trial of Saddam Hussein , on Monday allowed former US Attorney General Ramsey Clark and ex-Qatari Justice Minister Najib al-Nueimi to address the court on the safety of the...