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By By HAMZA HENDAWI -- Iraq's president is going to the country's federal court to try to stop Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki from establishing tribal councils - a move that major political parties fear is aimed at bolstering the Shiite leader's stature ahead of elections next year.President...  

BAGHDAD - A special Iraqi court sentenced Saddam Hussein's notorious cousin, known as "Chemical Ali", to death yesterday after convicting him of crimes against humanity while crushing the 1991 Shiite uprising in southern Iraq. Ali...  

U.S. soldiers captured on Wednesday two suspected Iranian-backed Shiite militant group members and killed a third during raids in central Baghdad, the U. ...  

BAGHDAD - At a press conference in Baghdad on November 20, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki made statements which angered the leadership of the Kurdistan Regional Government(KRG).  

A suicide bomber shattered Friday prayers in a Shiite mosque south of Baghdad, killing nine people the day after Iraq's Parliament approved a landmark pact allowing US troops to remain until 2011. The attack came as the hard-line Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr declared three days of mourning to...  

A suicide bomber struck a Shiite mosque south of Baghdad during Friday prayer services, killing at least nine people, Iraqi officials ...  

[JURIST] The Supreme Iraqi Criminal Tribunal [governing statute, PDF] on Tuesday sentenced Ali Hassan al-Majid [BBC profile; JURIST news archive], better known in the Western media as "Chemical Ali," to death for his involvement in the repression of Shiites in southern Iraq during the regime of...  

A suicide bomber blew himself up among worshippers waiting to be searched at the entrance to a Shiite mosque south of Baghdad on Friday, killing at least 11 people, Iraqi officials said.  

A rocket slammed into a compound near the United Nations headquarters in Baghdad's fortified Green Zone Saturday, killing two people in an attack that seemed likely to reflect the anger of Shiite militias over a new U.S.-Iraqi security pact.  

US military wants more ‘Sons of Iraq’ as police BAGHDAD - The U.S. military is urging Iraq’s Shiite-led government to boost the number of Sunni volunteers — many of them ex-insurgents — into its security forces, a U.S. officer said Tuesday. ‘Chemical Ali’ sentenced to death in Iraq BAGHDAD - A...  

AFP - An Iraqi court is to decide on Tuesday the fate of Saddam Hussein's notorious hatchet-man "Chemical Ali" Hassan al-Majid and 14 others accused of committing war crimes during the 1991 Shiite uprising.  

The Shiite cleric was once key to keeping Nouri Maliki in power but could use his supporters' street credibility against the prime minister. Now his political future is in doubt. A lasting image from the...  

A suicide bomber struck Shiite worshippers Friday at a mosque run by followers of anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, killing at least 12 people, a day after Iraqi lawmakers approved a security pact with the ...  

A SUICIDE bomber killed at least 12 worshippers outside a mosque in Musayyib, south of Baghdad, run by followers of the anti-American Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, yesterday  

A suicide bomber detonated explosives outside a Shiite mosque south of Baghdad on Friday, police said, killing at least 12 people and injuring...