Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Boys sit next to a mural of Shiite clerics Mohammad Baqir al-Sadr, ...

Learn how Saddam Hussein ruled Iraq with an iron fist for almost 30 years. To maintain power, he used fear, intimidation and violence like few other dictators in history, but he made the fatal ...

One of Saddam Hussein’s alleged former weapons chiefs has been recruited as a scientist at one of Britain’s most important research facilities. Physicist Dr Saleh Al-Atabi was a commander in ...

His opposition intensified following the 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran, which heightened Saddam’s fears of a Shiite-led uprising in Iraq. In 1980, as the government moved against Shiite ...