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SADDAM HUSSEIN CAPTURED BY AMERICAN FORCES
Saddam Hussein was convicted of crimes against humanity in the 1982 killings of 148 people, and sentenced to death by an Iraqi High Tribunal on November 5, 2006. He is shown during a briefing at the Iraqi Forum in Baghdad, December 14, 2003. (UPI Photo/Files)

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Iraq threatens Turkey peace plan with PKK
Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's government is threatening to sabotage a peace process between Turkey and its Kurdish separatist rebels.
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Obama: U.S. has security interest and moral obligation on Syria
President Obama said Tuesday the United States has both a national security interest and a moral obligation to see the bloodshed end in Syria.
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UPI Almanac for Sunday, May 5, 2013.
Iraq signs $830 million deal for more F-16s
Amid growing concerns the Middle East faces major security threats, Iraq has ordered a second batch of Lockheed Martin F-16IQ fighters worth $830 million.
Media crackdown in Iraq
Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki seems determined to carve out a role for himself as Saddam Hussein's worthy successor.
Iraq: Sectarian faultlines widen amid chaos
Iraq is closer to a security meltdown as disputes between the Shiite-dominated government and Kurds along with sectarian violence between Shiites and Sunnis.
Russia wary of Syrian WMD claims
Allegations regarding to the use of chemical weapons in Syria are far too serious to leave to speculation, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Monday.
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Iraqi forces retake control of Sunni town; death toll rising
Government troops in Iraq, which is reeling from a wave of violence that killed up to 200 people, retook Suleiman Beg, north of Baghdad Friday, officials said.
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My opportunity to sleep in this place is limited and almost scarce. I don't think there is anyone with a sensitive and humanitarian heart who can sleep amidst the screams of the tortured and the many blows of the doors and the squeaking sounds of the chairs
Saddam's letters reveal jail complaints
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The shoe monument is a gift to the next generation to remember the heroic action by the journalist
Iraq shoe-throwing monument removed
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I swear by God his body was totally intact except for a bruise on his cheek
Guard says Saddam Hussein's body stabbed
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The laws must reform past oppression and not force an unjust division or ethnically cleanse the Kurds, nor should it legislate deals that only touch the surface of the matter
Iraq Press Roundup
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We have absolutely no relation to the former regime which was ruling in Iraq
Iraq gov't embraces 'tyrannical mentality'
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Palestinian Security Forces Patrol the Border With Egypt.
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A members of the Hamas security forces patrol the border area between Gaza and Egypt, in the southern Gaza Strip May 20, 2013. Egyptian police angered by the kidnapping of seven colleagues by Islamist gunmen kept a crossing into the Gaza Strip closed again for four days, stranding hundreds of Palestinian travellers, As Tunnels between Egypt and Gaza closed and border was declared as military zone. Palestinian security forces patrol around the border, witnesses said. UPI/Ismael Mohamad