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by Ahmed Janabi Iran's spiritual leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has called on Iraqis to demand a timetable for the withdrawal of US troops, stressing that the US is responsible for Iraq's suffering. Khamenei...

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.

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.

Nawal al-Sadawi, an intellectual who intends to run for the Egyptian presidency, says she has been prevented from holding a meeting in her village.

by Ahmed Janabi Saddam Hussein's defence team says death squads have been set up to assassinate its members. The Jordan-based committee, Isnad (Support), said it received an e-mail from its representative in Baghdad, Iraqi lawyer Khalil al-Dulaimi, saying...

by Ahmed Janabi The lives of Iraqi housewives have not got any easier since the US invasion in March 2003 and their hopes for better days are fading with every passing day. Insecurity, unemployment, a lack...