KDP bloc marks 42nd Anfal anniversary, demands Iraqi govt compensate Barzani victims' families. Calls crime 'heinous act against humanity,' warns of resurgent chauvinism threatening Iraq's unity.

Iraq has arrested the man accused of overseeing torture and executions at Nugra Salman prison during the genocidal Anfal ...

Iraqi forces arrested Ajaj Ahmed Hardan, the "executioner" of Nugra Salman prison, accused of genocide and torture against ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - A man accused of torturing and executing Kurds in a remote southern Iraqi prison during the ...

The Anfal genocide, one of modern history's darkest chapters, claimed 182,000 Kurdish, Assyrian, Shabak, Turkman, Yazidi, and Mandean lives and destroyed 4,500 villages. In a few short months in ...

One of them, Saddam's cousin Ali Hassan al-Majid, who led the Anfal campaign, faces genocide charges, while the others are charged with crimes against humanity and war crimes. In other developments: ...

The Anfal genocide, one of modern history's darkest chapters, claimed 182,000 Kurdish, Assyrian, Shabak, Turkman, Yazidi, and Mandean lives and destroyed 4,500 villages.

“Anfal is the most important issue for the Kurdish nation. It cannot be ignored,” Kadhim told Al Jazeera. “Some members of the Iraqi government do not want the world’s attention on Anfal.

In April, ousted dictator Saddam Hussein was charged with genocide and crimes against humanity for his role 1988's Anfal campaign against Iraq's Kurdish population. Now, as Iraqis wait for the ...

Defendants in the second Saddam Hussein trial insisted Tuesday that Iraq’s military was attacking Iranian troops and Kurdish rebels only when it launched the Anfal campaign in the 1980s in which ...

Human rights researchers say the 1988 Iraqi military operations known as al-Anfal (the Spoils) was part of a campaign of genocide by the central government in Baghdad against the mainly Kurdish ...

Gravestones at a monument to the victims of the Anfal campaign (epa) PRAGUE, August 21, 2006 (RFE/RL) -- Joost Hiltermann was a key figure in the investigation by New York-based Human Rights Watch ...