VanSant then revealed exactly what Saddam said to them upon meeting the soldiers, saying, "He actually said, 'I'm Sadam Hussein the leader of Iraq and I want to negotiate.'" ...

Nov. 5, 2006 — -- Saddam Hussein and two co-defendants have been found guilty of murder and crimes against humanity, and sentenced to death by hanging over the 1982 killings of 148 people in ...

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Iraq's prime minister ordered an investigation Tuesday into Saddam Hussein's execution to try to uncover who taunted the former dictator in the last minutes of his life, and who ...

Fifteen years ago, Iraqis toppled a statue of the longtime Iraqi ruler. Today marks 15 years since Iraqis celebrated the collapse of Saddam Hussein's regime by toppling a statue of the longtime ...

President Bush vowed last night to attack Iraq with the "full force and might" of the U.S. military if Saddam Hussein does not flee within 48 hours, setting the nation on an almost certain course ...

Saddam Hussein combined a shrewd tactical mind with a taste for violence as he rose from humble beginnings to enjoy three decades of absolute power in Iraq.

FOR YEARS, SADDAM HUSSEIN SHOWED himself to be a master practitioner of the big bluff. Everyone outside Iraq and just about everyone inside believed that he harbored a secret stockpile of weapons ...

Bursts of celebratory gunfire went up as dawn broke in Baghdad, where news of Saddam Hussein’s execution reached people as they awoke. After the echoes of the shots faded, people went to their ...

BAGHDAD, Nov. 5 -- A divided and violence-ridden Iraq broke into starkly disparate displays of emotion on Sunday after judges in Baghdad condemned former president Saddam Hussein to hang for ...

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Saddam Hussein was hiding from relentless American air raids in a villa in Baghdad's upscale Mansur district when he received a phone call, residents say, and realized he had to ...