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ERBIL, Iraq, Dec. 2 (UPI) -- Iraqi Kurdistan serves as a model for tolerance and respect for diversity, regional officials said, marking the 60th anniversary of a human-rights declaration.
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.
BAGHDAD, Sept. 26 (UPI) -- U.S. officials denied a request from the Iraqi government to hand over custody of former officials of the Baath regime facing war crimes charges, sources say.
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.