Perhaps it was inevitable that Saddam Hussein’s end would be accompanied by low theatrics instead of high drama. After all, he had ruled for nearly three decades by a crude medieval code that ...

Capsized in a river in southern Iraq, the rusting wreck of a yacht that belonged to Saddam Hussein serves as a stark reminder of his iron-fisted rule that ended with the US-led invasion two ...

Saddam Hussein’s final secrets revealed: Tapes from CIA vault show Iraqi strongman wanted to be a novelist By . Dana Kennedy. Published March 2, 2024, 10:00 a.m. ET.

David Seidler and 'Hiding Saddam Hussein' director Halkawt Mustafa have written a script based on the relationship between Hussein and Alaa Namiq, the Iraqi farmer who hid the dictator in a hole ...

Every historical comparison is a stretch — history doesn’t quite repeat itself. And yet, to a reader of the chapters of Saddam Hussein biographies that deal with the Iraq-Iran war, the ...

Saddam Hussein's crimes during his dictatorship include the systematic persecution of the Kurdish people. In what many countries see as genocide, ...

Saddam Hussein. On the C-SPAN Networks: Saddam Hussein is a President for Iraq with 16 videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 1990 Broadcast.

‘Hiding Saddam Hussein’ Director Halkawt Mustafa on Keeping His Project Secret for 14 Years. Screening at the Red Sea Film Festival in Saudi Arabia, the documentary tells the story of how ...

When U.S.-led forces toppled Saddam Hussein in 2003, Adel Amer celebrated what he thought marked the end of two decades of war and isolation under sanctions that had brought Iraq and its people to ...

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 ...

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 ...