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.

BAGHDAD, Dec. 30 -- Former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein was hanged in the predawn hours of Saturday for crimes against humanity in the mass murder of Shiite men and boys in the 1980s, sent to ...

Saddam Hussein was an inept dictator during his final years in charge, thought 9/11 would bring Iraq and America closer together and took partial blame for his eventual fall from power after the 20… ...

“We shouldn’t have destabilized — Saddam Hussein was a bad guy. Right? He was a bad guy. Really bad guy. But you know what, he did well. He killed terrorists. He did that so good ...

A retired US Army soldier has revealed fascinating details of the historic former president of Iraq's capture. Chris VanSant, now a Defense Industry Consultant, spoke to ex-SAS Sergeant Major Mark ...

Jim Lehrer discusses the possibility of exiling Saddam Hussein with the chief diplomatic correspondent for the Los Angeles Times, a retired Egyptian diplomat and columnist for the Egyptian ...

WASHINGTON -- Iraqi President Saddam Hussein met Osama bin Laden on two occasions and gave money to the al-Qaida leader in 1996, a woman who claims to be a longtime mistress of the Iraqi leader ...

Saddam rose to power in 1968 as the enforcer behind a bloody coup and took full control of the government in 1979. Saddam often has been the target of international criticism, which he rarely heeds.

In Iraq, Samir Khurshid had to paint portraits of Saddam Hussein. In Oregon, he’s still painting, and his former life makes its way into his work.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...