Iraqi President Saddam Hussein appeared on television early Thursday morning, characterizing the U.S.-led military campaign as "criminal acts" and saying his nation would be victorious. "These days ...

On March 16, 1988, the town of Halabja in northern Iraq experienced unspeakable horror. It was the day Saddam Hussein ...

Nearly 20 years since Iraq created a new Constitution assuring that people of all religions and ethnicities would be ...

Democracy and peace are not guaranteed when a dictator falls — sometimes, a country’s fate turns uglier and messier.

he asked. Someone in the crowd below shouted, “Go to hell!” and Saddam fired back, “The hell that is Iraq?” The shouting increased in its intensity, and Saddam defended himself.

In Iraq, the innocents are pawns to Saddam's policy ... at least 15million' are said to have taken part in pro-Saddam demonstrations. The emotions may have been bogus. But hypocrisy is a whole ...

Sons-in-law General Hussein Kamel, husband to Raghad Hussein, led Iraq’s nuclear, chemical and biological weapons program and his brother, Colonel Saddam Kamel, husband to Rana Hussein ...

Learn how Saddam Hussein ruled Iraq with an iron fist for almost 30 years. To maintain power, he used fear, intimidation and violence like few other dictators in history, but he made the fatal ...

And even among Iraq’s Shia, the pro-Tehran position is heavily contested—all the ... had been Iraq’s first non-Islamist ruler since the fall of Saddam. Kadhimi had restored Iraqi ties with Sunni ...

In the months before the U.S. invaded Iraq in 2003 ... was once allied with conservative and pro-Israel groups in supporting the overthrow of Saddam Hussein, but is now on opposing sides.