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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

BAGHDAD, IRAQ - Iraqi judges interrogated the notorious general known as "Chemical Ali" and Saddam's former defense minister today, opening the first phase in trials for the ousted dictator's top ...

There are reports that Iraqi commander Ali Hassan al-Majeed, known as "Chemical Ali", was killed in a Saturday air attack, the BBC reported on Sunday. Reuters, citing a spokesman for the U.S. Central ...

The former senior Iraqi official known as "Chemical Ali" is in U.S. custody, the Defense Department says. U.S. officials initially said Ali Hassan al-Majid had been killed in an April airstrike, but ...

His nickname alone is enough to make many Iraqis shudder, which is not to mention the gruesome memories of how he came by it: overseeing the deadly gassing of thousands of Iraqi Kurds in 1988. So it’s ...

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 ...