BAGHDAD, Iraq -- A defiant Saddam Hussein threatened the judge and tried to intimidate a witness. A co-defendant spat into the gallery and got into shouting matches. But the court held no one in ...

Saddam Hussein ruled Iraq with calculated brutality—but his son Uday was something far more unpredictable. Known for random violence, torture, and public executions, he created a climate of fear even ...

HALABJA, Iraq—Since Saddam Hussein's army bombarded this Kurdish city with a toxic cocktail of chemical weapons 15 years ago, Halabja has had many visitors. Journalists came to chronicle the tragedy; ...

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Iraq's former interim prime minister complained Sunday that human rights abuses by some in the new government are as bad now as they were under Saddam Hussein. Ayad Allawi, a secular ...

The Iraqi people have been given an opportunity. They have the opportunity to take a step beyond the evil legacy of Saddam Hussein and begin a new legacy of democracy and unity under the rule of law ...

LONDON -- Prime Minister Tony Blair said Monday he opposed the death penalty for Saddam Hussein even though the deposed Iraqi leader's trial had reminded the world of his brutality. Asked about Saddam ...

Even those Americans bitterly divided over what should be our country’s next step in the Iraq war ought to agree with Sunday’s conviction of Saddam Hussein. A special tribunal in Baghdad convicted ...

Few people remember that Frank Capra, the legendary Hollywood director, played a critical role in the war effort during World War II. In between production of his classics "Mr. Smith Goes to ...

In late 2002, Saddam Hussein seemed more concerned with writing novels than the prospects of an American invasion of Iraq. Saddam in this pivotal period thought the U.S. knew he had no weapons of mass ...

BAGHDAD, Iraq — Saddam Hussein, the shotgun-waving dictator who ruled Iraq with a remorseless brutality for a quarter-century and was driven from power by a U.S.-led war that left his country in ...

It's a shame that Joseph Heller, author of "Catch-22," is no longer alive and laughing at human folly because he'd love "Saddam's Delusions," an amazing article in the May/June issue of Foreign ...

Screening at the Red Sea Film Festival in Saudi Arabia, the documentary tells the story of how Iraqi farmer Alaa Namiq hid Saddam Hussein from U.S. troops for 235 days. By Alex Ritman U.K.