BAGHDAD (AP) — Tariq Aziz, the debonair Iraqi diplomat who made his name by staunchly defending Saddam Hussein to the world during three wars and was later sentenced to death as part of the regime ...

AMMAN, Jordan (AP) — The body of Tariq Aziz, Saddam Hussein’s former top aide who died last week in prison in Iraq, went missing on Thursday after it was snatched in Baghdad while en route to Jordan ...

BAGHDAD — The international face of Saddam Hussein’s regime, Tariq Aziz, was sentenced to death by hanging Tuesday for persecuting Shiites just over three months after the Americans transferred him to ...

Tariq Aziz, Iraq's former foreign minister and deputy prime minister under Saddam Hussein's regime has died in prison aged 79, Iraqi officials told NBC News. Aziz, who had been suffering from health ...

WASHINGTON - As a growing number of countries and groups have this week urged Iraq to spare Saddam Hussein's former foreign minister from a death sentence, there has a been a notable silence from one ...

BAGHDAD — Iraq’s president said Wednesday that he will not sign off on the hanging of Tariq Aziz, joining the Vatican and others in objecting to the death sentence for a man who for years was the ...

(Reuters) - Tariq Aziz, who was foreign minister of Iraq under Saddam Hussein, has died in prison, Iraqi officials said on Friday. He was 79. Aziz surrendered in April 2003 to the U.S. invasion force ...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- U.S. forces in Iraq have taken custody of Tariq Aziz, the former deputy prime minister and the most visible Iraqi leader other than Saddam Hussein.