Friday March 16 marks the 19th anniversary of Saddam Hussein's chemical weapons attack on the Kurdish village of Halabja. For the first time, Iraq's central government has marked the occasion by calling for a minute of silence to remember the victims. But VOA's Barry Newhouse reports from Irbil that many of the victims continue to suffer and some blame the government for not doing enough to help them.

U.S. President George W. Bush has criticized the circumstances of the execution of Saddam Hussein on December 30, as well as the January 15 hangings of two former top Iraqi officials.

The Iraqi government has shown journalists videotape of today's executions of two of former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's codefendants.

A new video showing the body of former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein shortly after his December 30 hanging has appeared on the Internet, amid continuing anger over how Iraqi authorities handed the former leader's execution.

Human Rights Watch says Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's defense of Saddam Hussein's December 30 execution and plans to execute two former Hussein-era officials show the government's "disregard for human rights and the rule of law."

Libya will raise a statue showing former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein on the gallows.

The murder of ex-President Saddam Hussein in Baghdad was perhaps the worst example of political blindness shown by the inept, incompetent and incapacitated Bush regime.

Is the world or Iraq better without Saddam Hussein? Google, Yahoo, Msn, FOXNEWS, CNN all broadcast news of the brutal dictator's execution.

The U.S. military in Iraq says it had no role in the execution of Saddam Hussein and would have handled things differently if it had "physical custody" of the former Iraqi dictator.

An adviser to Iraq's prime minister says officials have arrested a person they suspect of secretly recording on a mobile phone camera the execution of Saddam Hussein.