World political and religious leaders were divided Saturday in their reaction to the execution of Saddam Hussein . In a statement released from his ranch at Crawford, Texas, late Friday night Eastern Time...
Iraqi Shiites Saturday celebrated the execution of Saddam Hussein . Since the Iraqi government did not impose a mandatory curfew on Baghdad as it did in November at the time of Hussein's conviction...
Lawyers for late Iraqi ex-president Saddam Hussein issued a statement Saturday in response to his dawn execution declaring that the former leader "died a martyr" and condemning the trial as a "political assassination" that was...
Video and pictures released by Iraqi state television Saturday confirmed the execution of Saddam Hussein which took place around 6 AM Saturday local time (10 PM Friday ET) at an...
Bulgaria has urged a speedy appeal in the retrial of five Bulgarian nurses and one Palestinian doctor accused of infecting over 400 Libyan patients, primarily children . The medics were convicted and sentenced ...
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) approved the proposed $86 billion AT&tT-BellSouth merger Friday, after several months delay. The telecom merger was approved 4-0 by the FCC commissioners, who found that "significant public interest...
Saddam Hussein defense lawyer Curtis Doebbler, one of the two Americans on Hussein's Dujail trial team, has condemned the ousted Iraqi president's execution in a statement sent to JURIST only minutes after his client was hanged in...
Iraqi television is reporting that Saddam Hussein has been executed. The hanging, reported by US-operated al-Hurra TV as having taken place around 6 AM Saturday local time (10 PM Friday ET), fulfills the death sentence handed...
A US federal judge has rejected an eleventh-hour bid by lawyers for Saddam Hussein seeking a direct stay of execution. US District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly issued a 6-page ruling late Friday evening following a telephone conference with lawyers...
Iraqi officials have said that final preparations are underway for the execution by hanging of Saddam Hussein before 6 AM local Baghdad time (10 PM Friday ET). Observers eligible to witness the execution have been told...