Sky Doc on Flight 149 British Airways Passengers, Crew Held Hostage by Saddam Hussein Gets Trailer "New information has come to light to challenge the official narrative, and the surviving ...

In 2003, a small coalition of countries led by the United States invaded Iraq, at the time ruled by the autocratic Saddam ...

This decision, made quietly, cautiously, and with the best of intentions, reshaped the fate of a nation and the entire region. Saddam Hussein could have changed everything.

Then, four months later, they had captured Saddam Hussein, so it must have been me.” On November 5, 2006, Hussein was found guilty of crimes against humanity and sentenced to death by hanging.

Some of those celebrating beheaded the statue and embraced the American troops as liberators. US Marines walk pass a dismounted statue of Saddam Hussein on Baghdad's al-Fardous square, April 10, 2003.

The coup failed and Saddam Hussein fled to Cairo. When he returned, some years later, he did so to rule. By 1979, he was Iraq's president, prime minister and commander in chief.

BAGHDAD — The American University of Baghdad celebrated the graduation of its first cohort of students Saturday at a campus that was once a palace built by Saddam Hussein.