The Iraqi government said Tuesday that it had closed the Abu Ghraib prison, the site of a notorious prisoner abuse scandal during the U.S. occupation of Iraq, because of fears that it could be overrun ...
This step is important for Iraq because it continues to show that Baghdad can get some justice for victims of the Saddam era.
Federal police say the arrest in Iraq of alleged Melbourne tobacco kingpin Kazem Hamad has opened a power vacuum in his powerful syndicate, which authorities will exploit. Hamad, 41, was arrested in ...