By Ahmed Ahmed They say every cloud has a silver lining. The death of hundreds of Iraqi Muslim Shiites on August 31, 2005 in a Baghdad stampede was by all means a...

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Lawyers for former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein have said he has asked to meet a former US attorney general who is a member of his defence team, but he is yet to hear from the authorities.

by Ahmed Janabi The fall of Baghdad to invading US-led forces in April 2003 marked the end of decades of one party rule in Iraq. When the Iraqi Arab Baath Socialist party assumed power in 1968, a national...

by Ahmed Janabi UN Security Council Resolution 1559 set up an inquiry commission to investigate former Lebanese prime minister Rafiq al-Hariri's murder after a UN fact-finding mission found that Lebanon's own investigation was...

A joint statement by the Arab Commission for Human Rights in Paris and International Justice Organisation in The Hague has expressed concerns about the unrest in al-Ahwaz town in southwestern Iran.