While the US military have yet to formally recognise Hoppus' part in the capture of former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein in 2003 as part of Operation Red Dawn, the pop-punk star believes that it ...

Cannes: Marielle Heller and Eric Roth executive-produce Hasan Hadi's 1990s-set sales title, premiering in Directors' Fortnight. Iraqi writer/director Hasan Hadi finds a most unusual way into the ...

Mark Hoppus of Blink-182 fame is claiming that he had a role in the United States’s capture of none other than Saddam Hussein. So, here’s what happened. Hoppus informed NME during a recent ...

In 2016, a German antiques dealer said he bought Hussein’s left leg and then resold it on eBay for more than $100,000. British journalist Nigel Ely wrote a 2017 book about a chunk of Saddam’s ...

And still, Saddam Hussein, like a Marie Antoinette of sorts, continued threatened consequences if Iraqis did not celebrate his April 28 birthday with a lavish cake, as if supplies were easy to attain.

It was in 1978, when Iraq’s dictator Saddam Hussein invited an Indian scientist to visit his country as a personal guest. As per the schedule, this Indian scientist reached Iraq and was given a ...

“Saddam Hussein broadcasts to the world that the passengers of the plane are now his ‘guests’ and are not allowed to leave,” it noted back then. “They are held as human shields in ...

“On Aug. 2, 1990, just after Saddam [Hussein]’s forces storm Kuwait, a civilian flight unwittingly touches down in the middle of the war zone,” reads a synopsis for the doc. “The passengers and crew ...

The population’s struggle doesn’t stop dictator Saddam Hussein from insisting everyone celebrates his birthday, with the film unfolding over the two days leading up to one such event.

BAGHDAD (AP) — 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. Officials said ...

(AP Photo/Hadi Mizban) Lights are projected from former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein's al-Faw Palace in Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, May 24, 2025, now the location of The American University of Iraq ...