The US Army said a member of family 'close' to Saddam provided information about the deposed Iraqi leader's whereabouts.
Defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld and joint chiefs of staff chairman General Richard Myers are expected to testify before a senate committee Friday.
Rights activists deplore absence of international jurists on panel to try Saddam.
But Sadr's spokesman Sheikh Ali Shaibani told journalists while vacating the mosque that the cleric would not accept Allawi's demand to disband his Mehdi army and continue to fight the occupation forces.
They want compensation for the families of the Iraqis who died fighting American troops in Fallujah and the release of all Iraqis held in US and Kuwaiti jails.
More than 64 people -- 31 Iraqis, 12 Filipinos, 10 Poles, 10 Hungarians and an American -- were injured when two trucks tried to ram into Camp Charlie in south Baghdad.
Iraqi PM ordered troops to end rebellion before elections in January.
It's been 10 years since United States-led forces waged war in Iraq. In this collection of some of defining Reuters images from the conflict, the photographers also provide a personal account of the events they captured.
Vital intelligence used to justify Iraq invasion ten years ago was based on 'fabrication', a media report has claimed, citing that the Central Intelligence Agency and MI6 were told that Saddam Hussein had no weapons of mass destruction.
At least 127 people were injured in the bombings in western Iraq.
About 2,200 Indians in non-conflict zone in southern Iraq have expressed their desire to leave the for home and they will be in India in the next 36 to 48 hours even as 200 others reached in New Delhi early on Sunday morning.
Four Iraqi soldiers and seven civilians were killed in the explosion, set off by a suicide bomber in a car packed with nearly half a ton of explosives.
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Palestinian terrorist Abu Nidal had trained him at the instance of Saddam Hussein, a media report said.
After more than a week of fighting the US army has occupied only a small portion of the town.\n\n
"No intimidation will budge us from our willingness to help that country rise up again and rebuild itself with self-government, security and freedom," Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said .
A truck bomb explosion set an Italian base ablaze.
I have personally talked to the president if we had a clear shot to assassinate him, we would probably do that, Republican Senator Peter Fitzgerald told Chicago's Daily Herald.
Indian efforts to secure a share in Iraqi crude oil have been hit with Indian Oil Corporation failing to get entry visas in time for sending its officials to Baghdad to seal an import deal.
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But the US president said the punishment for the former Iraqi ruler will be decided by 'the citizens of Iraq'.
Bollywood songs, item numbers and folk music reverberated in the air on Wednesday as Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's wife Gursharan Kaur was given a warm welcome at a gurdwara and Kendriya Vidyalaya in Teheran which was extended a grant of Rs 2 crore by the Indian government
'...but from those who control the narrative.' Powerful nations have mastered this art of narrative building. Those nations who aspire to become global powers must do so, observes Shanthie Mariet D'Souza.
'Modi has visited all these three countries (the UAE more than once, inexplicably) but has left out Kuwait and Oman, the two Gulf countries that are closest to India in their political, cultural and civilisational ethos,' notes Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar.
Diego Maradona is on the brink of becoming coach of Iraq and wants to take the country to the 2014 World Cup finals in Brazil, Argentine agent Hernan Tofoni said on Thursday.
The speaker, believed to be the Al Qaeda leader, urged Iraqis to draw the Americans into urban warfare and launch suicide attacks.
Iraq is on the verge of collapsing and foreign military intervention is inevitable. But for those who follow the developments in Iraq and the Middle-East will understand the current situation is nothing but a culmination of US and western policies toward the region, says Dr Waiel Awwad
Zico quit as coach of the Iraqi national team on Tuesday after little more than a year in the post, saying the country's soccer association had failed to fulfill the terms of his contract.
Commenting on the recent article on Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi in the Time magazine, the state Congress on Monday said that not only Modi, but Osama Bin Laden and former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussain had also featured in the magazine earlier.
Today, Ali Hussein Kadhim stands before the world as a rare eyewitness to the extreme brutality of the ISIS militants.
Syrian government forces recaptured the famed ancient city of Palmyra on Sunday in a major symbolic victory over the Islamic State jihadist group, a military source said.
"Not yet," the state-run TASS news agency quoted Russian diplomat as saying while responding to a question on the possible death of the ISIS leader.
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