HALABJA, Iraq (Reuters) - When poison gas killed thousands of Kurds in Halabja in 1988, its residents never imagined they would ever escape Saddam Hussein's grip, let alone vote one day in a ...
Friday marks the twenty-fourth anniversary of Saddam Hussein’s brutal chemical gassing of Halabja, a northern Iraqi Kurdish town. The Halabja attack is the only documented major use of chemical ...
The Iraqi government has declared Halabja, a region notorious for one of the worst chemical weapon attacks in history, a new governorate. Iraqi President Abdul Latif Rashid offered his “warmest ...
The conviction in Baghdad yesterday of “Chemical Ali,” the cousin of Saddam Hussein who Iraqi prosecutors said was responsible for the death of 180,000 Kurds in the late 1980s, is one of those events ...