(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 ...
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War and the Price of Image

Date: January 9, 1991Location: The Intercontinental Hotel, GenevaThe world fixed its eyes on the venue. Journalists landed from near and far. The Security Council resolution was unambiguous, demanding ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
AMMAN, Jordan (AP) — Tariq Aziz was laid to rest Saturday after a ceremony in his honor at a church in the Jordanian capital, Amman, eight days after the debonair Iraqi diplomat died in prison of a ...
Iraq's deputy prime minister, Tariq Aziz, has appealed to Turkey not to take part in a U.S. led attack against his country. Mr. Aziz also insisted that there was no need for a new United Nations ...
BAGHDAD -- For years he was the urbane, cigar-smoking face of Saddam Hussein's regime, who argued his boss' case in the international corridors of power. Tariq Aziz, 72, now faces 15 years in prison ...