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Iraqi special forces and locals stand outside a hospital in Nasiriyah where Iraq’s former foreign minister Tariq Aziz died on June 5, 2015. (AFP/Haidar Mohammed Ali)

Tariq Aziz’s son criticizes Baghdad’s handling of father’s death

by Ma'ad Fayad | Jun 6, 2015 | Middle East

London, Asharq Al-Awsat—Ziad Aziz, the eldest son of Saddam Hussein-era foreign minister Tariq Aziz, has strongly criticized Baghdad’s handling of his father’s death, saying that the Iraqi government did not inform the family that he had passed away. Tariq Aziz died...

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In this Dec. 2, 1998 file photo, former Iraqi foreign minister Tariq Aziz stands to attention as the Iraqi national anthem is played at a conference in Baghdad, Iraq. Officials say Aziz has died in a hospital in southern Iraq on Friday, June 5, 2015. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

Tariq Aziz, top aide to Saddam Hussein, dies in hospital

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Jun 5, 2015 | Middle East

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 that killed hundreds of thousands of its own people, has died in a...

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Tariq Aziz (AFP Photo)

Opinion: Giving Iraq a Stay of Execution

by Abdulrahman Al-Rashed | Sep 9, 2014 | Opinion

In 2007, TIME magazine reported how Sultan Hashim Ahmad Al-Ta’i, the defense minister during Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein’s era, escaped execution just five hours before he was scheduled to be hanged. Ta’i’s life was spared after his American...

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Tariq Aziz. (AFP)

Opinion: Tariq Aziz and “The Mistake of the Wise”

by Abdullah Al-Otaibi | Apr 25, 2013 | Opinion

In an interview conducted after the fall of Saddam, Tariq Aziz—who held several posts at the time of Saddam Hussein—appeared on the television channel Al-Arabiya. Ali Al-Dabbagh, the former minister and spokesperson for the Iraqi government, hosted the interview, in...

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In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian President Bashar Assad speaks at the Opera House in central Damascus, Syria, Sunday, Jan. 6, 2013. (AP Photo/SANA)

Opinion: Assad and Saddam’s Final Days

by Tariq Alhomayed | Apr 21, 2013 | Opinion

Anybody who reads the interview given by Syrian deputy foreign minister Faisal Miqdad with Britain’s Guardian newspaper will immediately recall Saddam Hussein’s final days in power and the approach taken by the Baghdad regime’s officials. They might also...