Oscar Wyatt, the Texas oil executive who admitted to paying kickbacks to Saddam Hussein’s regime under the UN oil-for-food ...

Intense preparations for Saddam Hussein's trial began shortly after his capture. There are intense demands on judges and lawyers to conduct that tribunal fairly as international observers continue to ...

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, ...

Oscar Wyatt, the Houston oilman who once served prison time for paying kickbacks to Saddam Hussein’s government in Iraq to ...

B A G H D A D, Iraq, July 1, 2004 -- Defiant, belligerent and a little anxious, former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein appeared before a single Iraqi judge in a courtroom near Baghdad today to hear ...

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Saddam Hussein dodged questions from prosecutors cross-examining him for the first time Wednesday over a crackdown against Shiites in the 1980s. But he acknowledged approving death ...

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Saddam Hussein, the shotgun-waving dictator who ruled Iraq with a remorseless brutality for a quarter-century and was driven from power by a U.S.-led war that left his country in ...

It remains to be seen if Washington has learned enough of a lesson to destroy Iran’s remaining nuclear infrastructure. By John R. Bolton As a State Department Arabist, he served as ambassador to three ...

It was one of the largest manhunts in history. Having been ousted from power following the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq, Saddam Hussein, the country’s once all-powerful and ruthless leader, went into ...

Iraq’s elections are no longer contests of ideas or competition for public trust. Today, Iraq’s government often answers not ...

The Independent High Electoral Commission in Iraq has completed preparations to hold parliamentary elections on November 11.