Saddam Hussein's eldest sons, Uday and Qusay, knew their time was running out. They had disobeyed their father's advice of splitting up to prevent the Americans from hunting them down and were now ...

During the three-week war in Iraq, collectors have swamped the Internet trading site with more than 1,000 items, including Iraqi money, T-shirts and videos that capitalize on Saddam's notoriety. One ...

Yes, Saddam’s Fedayeen, Arabic for “Men of Sacrifice,” wore enormous Darth Vader helmets. Their commander, Hussein’s son Uday ...

A Cotswold plane scrappage company has been the unlikely resting place of Saddam Hussein's stolen private jet - which is now ...

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 20… ...

As the 20th anniversary of the start of the Iraq War approaches, Peter Bergen speaks to retired FBI agent George Piro about his interrogation of Saddam Hussein and the aftershocks of the US ...

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.

It was April 2003, and Saddam Hussein cheerily greeted his subjects as a few bodyguards tried to keep the crowd at bay. Someone handed Saddam a bewildered baby, which he hoisted up in the air a ...

BAGHDAD, Dec. 30 -- Former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein was hanged in the predawn hours of Saturday for crimes against humanity in the mass murder of Shiite men and boys in the 1980s, sent to ...

Last Wednesday, the U.S. command thought it had Saddam Hussein in its crosshairs and tried to kill him with a massive air strike in the opening salvo of the war. But by Saturday, Commanding ...

The last time Donald Rumsfeld saw Saddam Hussein, he gave him a cordial handshake. The date was almost 20 years ago, Dec. 20, 1983; an official Iraqi television crew recorded the historic moment.

BAGHDAD, Iraq, Dec. 14, 2003 — -- Deposed Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein has been captured near his home town of Tikrit, the U.S. military has confirmed. Saddam, who ruled Iraq for 23 years ...