Iraq’s top court has thrown out a legal challenge that had temporarily halted three controversial laws passed last month by ...

Iraq's National Security Agency said Friday it arrested a former high-level security official for his involvement in the 1980 ...

BAGHDAD — Iraq’s National Security Agency said Friday ... execution of a prominent Shiite cleric and his sister during Saddam Hussein ’s brutal crackdown on religious opposition.

Iraq, Saturday, April 6, 2013, painted over a portrait of former dictator Saddam Hussein. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim, File) The primary suspect in al-Sadr’s execution, Saadoun Sabri Jamil Jumaa al ...

His opposition intensified following the 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran, which heightened Saddam’s fears of a Shiite-led uprising in Iraq. In 1980, as the government moved against Shiite ...

BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq’s top court suspended implementation Tuesday of three controversial bills passed last month by the ...