Recently gathered information links one of Saddam Hussein’s most notorious former generals to the massacres of Shiite Muslims in southern Iraq and could result in new charges against the man who ...

BAGHDAD -- Saddam Hussein's cousin, known as "Chemical Ali," and two other regime officials were sentenced Sunday to hang for slaughtering up to 180,000 Kurdish men, women and children with chemical ...

Ali Hassan Al Majid, known to the world as "Chemical Ali," was hanged in Iraq on Monday. His death seemed to occasion a new spasm in that unfortunate country, as car bombs exploded in separate attacks ...

U.S. goverment and military must be happy that "Chemical Ali" is dead, from a U.S. airstrike. The AP report says that "[h]e had been dubbed 'Chemical Ali'' by opponents for ordering a 1988 poison gas ...

Iraq’s Presidential Council endorsed the death sentence for Ali Hassan al-Majid, known as “Chemical Ali” for his role in the gassing of thousands of Iraqi Kurds during a 1988 campaign of genocide.

BAGHDAD - Suicide bombers struck near three hotels popular with Western journalists and businessmen Monday just as Iraq announced the execution of Saddam Hussein's notorious cousin known as Chemical ...

A cousin and top deputy of executed former President Saddam Hussein denied opening fire on Iraqi civilians during a Shiite uprising in 1991 but acknowledged executing an Iranian national accused of ...

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 ...