BAGHDAD, Dec. 2 (UPI) -- Ali Hassan al-Majid, known as "Chemical Ali," was sentenced to die Tuesday for quelling a Shiite uprising against Saddam Hussein, Iraqi officials said.

ERBIL, Iraq, Nov. 21 (UPI) -- The Kurdistan Regional Government of Iraq held a formal ceremony for 150 victims of the 1980s Anfal ethnic-cleansing campaign against the Kurds.

SULAIMANIYA, Iraq, Aug. 21 (UPI) -- Residents in northern Sulaimaniya province sent a letter to the Iraqi government calling for the execution of "Chemical Ali" and others for war crimes.

BAGHDAD, July 28 (UPI) -- An Iraqi court resumed proceedings examining the atrocities allegedly ordered by Ali Hassan al-Majid, or "Chemical Ali," following a 1991 Shiite rebellion.

BAGHDAD, July 8 (UPI) -- An Iraqi court in Baghdad postponed to July 16 the trial of Tariq Aziz, Ali Hassan al-Majid and others for the 1992 slaying of 42 businessmen.

BAGHDAD, June 16 (UPI) -- Ali Hassan al-Majid, known as "Chemical Ali," denied at a war crimes tribunal in Baghdad shooting unarmed protesters during a 1991 Shiite uprising in Basra.

BAGHDAD, June 12 (UPI) -- The fifth trial by the Iraqi High Tribunal begins July 21 in the 1999 assassination of Grand Ayatollah Mohammad Mohammad Sadeq al-Sadr.

BAGHDAD, May 22 (UPI) -- Witnesses testified in the trial of former Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz as his lawyers waited in Jordan for permission to defend their client.

AMMAN, Jordan, May 20 (UPI) -- The son of former Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz said his father faces the Iraqi High Tribunal Tuesday on war crimes charges without legal counsel.