In July 1979, Saddam Hussein staged one of the most chilling purges in modern political history. Calling hundreds of Ba’ath ...

No Paradise if You Are Killed follows a Kurdish-Norwegian female sniper hoping to rescue her younger sister imprisoned by ...

Saddam Hussein was an inept dictator during his final years in charge, thought 9/11 would bring Iraq and America closer together and took partial blame for his eventual fall from power after the 2003 ...

Within days of taking power, Saddam Hussein summoned about 400 top officials and announced he had uncovered a plot against the ruling party. The conspirators, he said, were in that very room. As the ...

A thinner but combative Saddam Hussein appeared in court Wednesday for the first time since his hunger strike and hospitalization, complaining that he had been brought to the chamber against his will ...

The noose around the dictator’s neck was one of the most striking images ever viewed across the Arab world — an Arab president being held to account. Still, for much of the Arab world, the execution ...

The high-profile court appearance of the former Iraqi dictator has sparked mixed reactions in Iraq. Three experts analyze the Arab world's reaction to Saddam's trial and Iraq's interim government.

Dec. 3, 2003 — -- Some $132 million of money that Saddam Hussein withdrew from the Iraqi Central Bank is believed to be funding the Iraqi insurgency against U.S. troops, U.S. officials told ...

Hundreds of Iraqis went to the site where Saddam Hussein was buried Sunday in the town of his birth to pay their respects to the executed leader who was hanged a day earlier for crimes against ...

Saddam Hussein’s chief attorney denied on Thursday that the ousted president had confessed to ordering executions and waging a campaign against Kurds in which thousands of people are said to have been ...

Peter Bergen: Donald Trump is correct in saying Saddam Hussein repressed terrorist groups, as he did all forms of rebellion and dissent U.S. authorities spread false story of connection between Saddam ...

BAGHDAD, Iraq – Within days of taking power, Saddam Hussein summoned about 400 top officials and announced he had uncovered a plot against the ruling party. The conspirators, he said, were in that ...