Iraq's top court throws out challenge to new laws, including one increasing Islamic courts authority
Iraq’s Federal Supreme Court decided on Tuesday to revoke its previous judicial injunction that had suspended the ...
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Iraq's top court throws out challenge against three new laws
Iraq’s top court on Tuesday threw out a legal challenge that had temporarily halted three controversial laws passed last ...
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Iraq arrests former security official over execution of Shiite cleric who opposed Saddam Hussein
Iraq arrests former security official over execution of Shiite cleric who opposed Saddam Hussein - Iraq’s National Security ...
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Saddam Hussein
Learn how Saddam Hussein ruled Iraq with an iron fist for almost 30 years. To maintain power, he used fear, intimidation and violence like few other dictators in history, but he made the fatal ...
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Iraq arrests former security official over execution of Shiite cleric who opposed Saddam Hussein
His opposition intensified following the 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran, which heightened Saddam’s fears of a Shiite-led uprising in Iraq. In 1980, as the government moved against Shiite ...