HALABJA: On March 16, 1988, as many as 5,000 Iraqi Kurds, mostly women and children, were killed when deadly gas was released on the northern town of Halabja by Saddam Hussein´s forces. AFP remembers ...

Halabja is a name etched in the history of chemical warfare. There are few documented instances of deliberate chemical weapons attacks against civilian communities; the one that Saddam Hussein’s ...

At the conclusion of the Iran-Iraq war (1980-1988), the Kurdish city of Halabja was chemically bombarded by the Iraqi army. It left thousands of children, women and men suffocated to death. After 34 ...

The Iraqi parliament voted on Monday in favor of a draft law to recognize the province of Halabja, raising the total number of provinces in the country to 19. In a statement, the assembly said the ...

In Halabja in Northern Iraq, Saddam Hussein’s chemical weapons attack there killed about 5,000 people in March 1988. A trial is underway in Iraq related to the attack. More than 4,800 survivors are ...

Error occured during this request! Please try again later. ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - The Iraqi Council of Ministers on Monday officially approved Halabja as the ...

raqi and Iranian officials on Thursday jointly inspected the shared border area near Halabja, a town in northern Iraq’s Kurdish region, where both countries hope to set up a new border terminal.

Halabja Massacre comes to mind with the words of a child who fell on the ground due to a chemical gas on March 16, 1988: "Mom, there is a smell of apple". Whatever I write will not be enough to ...

In 1988 Saddam Hussein dropped chemical weapons on his own people - the Kurdish residents of the town of Halabja. Thousands died and in the chaos that followed many families were scattered. One woman, ...

At ground zero of Iraq’s greatest crime against humanity, a concrete structure of hands writhing in agony stands charred and in ruins. The memorial to the signature atrocity of Saddam Hussein’s regime ...

A man who as a baby survived a chemical attack on the Iraqi city of Halabja in 1988 has been reunited with his mother. Ali Pour was taken to Iran by Iranian soldiers who stormed the Kurdish city days ...

Nearly 25 years ago, Iraqi forces killed thousands of their own civilians using chemical weapons on the Kurdish town of Halabja. Now steps are about to be taken to discover which country - and ...