President Saddam Hussein launched a war against their neighbour Iran on 1980. The war, which went on for eight years, is ...

The Fedayeen Saddam were loyal to one man: Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. Established in 1995, it was an irregular unit designed to protect the Ba’athist regime and the Iraqi president himself. It was ...

Syria's admission Monday that it has chemical weapons has revived a controversial theory about one of the biggest intelligence failures in American history: The non-existence of weapons of mass ...

Researchers got a glimpse into an archive of Saddam Hussein's papers -- and thus his conspiratorial mind -- today. The New York Times's Michael Gordon likened the revelations to those of the Nixon ...

Dec. 29, 2006 — -- His father died before he was born and his mother is said to have been suicidal when she was carrying him, trying to abort the pregnancy. His stepfather allegedly beat him, and ...