Wait, wait. Don’t shoot!’” While deployed in Iraq, he came upon a piano while encamped in one of Saddam Hussein’s private palaces. He was encouraged to play the piano —whose ivory pieces ...

Assyrians pray in front of the only remaining stone from the alter in the rubble of the bombed church in North Iraq. One of Saddam's Palaces in north Iraq, built with many stones taken from desstroyed ...

and Saddam fired back, “The hell that is Iraq?” The shouting increased in ... window and saw nothing but ruin; only within the palace of his mind could he still rule the kingdom of his longing.

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 ...

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

Military action against Iraq would start with US-led bombing raids on President Saddam Hussein's palaces and other symbols of his regime, a British Sunday newspaper said. In a bid to convince ...

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

But blaming the coalition that overthrew Saddam Hussein for Iraq’s current state is an error, on both moral and factual grounds. It’s not America and its allies that are primarily at fault for ...

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 ...

This is about Iraq. [Speaking Arabic] The court was weak in front of Saddam Hussein ... we're just taking you to the presidential palace so that you can swear never to return to the army." ...

The War and Treaty singer opens up to PEOPLE about how the Army "overshadows the purity" of his musical journey Rachel DeSantis is a senior writer on the music team at PEOPLE. She has been ...