It is easy to be fashionably pessimistic about climate change. Many people say they think it is already too late to avoid catastrophe, let alone to meet the relatively ambitious goals enshrined in ...

Abdul Salam Arif. A few months later, Kassem ousted Arif for being too pro-Nasserite. Around the same time a young Hussein tried, but failed, to kill Kassem, who himself executed a slew of Iraqi ...

From Saddam Hussein's rise within the ranks of the Ba'ath Party and the Revolution Command Council, to his regime's ruthless persecution of perceived enemies at home and abroad. 1937: Saddam ...

A gold-plated AK-47 believed to have been owned by former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein is to go on public display for the first time. Hussein and his sons gave the gleaming rifle to "people they ...

In the wake of the execution of former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein a fuller picture has gradually emerged of how his final moments played out. In an interview with the BBC, one of the witnesses, ...

Saddam Hussein was captured after a tip-off led American troops to a small, underground hole concealed next to farm buildings near the former leader's hometown of Tikrit. Soldiers were seconds away ...