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 ...

The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the CIA, and the Origins of America’s Invasion of Iraq, Steve Coll, Penguin Press, 576 pages Saddam Hussein was the first person I saw die on television.

Chris VanSant, now a Defense Industry Consultant, spoke to ex-SAS Sergeant Major Mark Billingham about his experience ...

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 ...

left, and Mohammad Sadiq al-Sadr, right, in Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, April 6, 2013, painted over a portrait of former dictator Saddam Hussein. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim, File) ...

U.S. officials shared the information with Iraq even though they knew that Saddam Hussein's military was likely to respond by attacking with the lethal nerve agent sarin and other chemical weapons ...

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

QALQILYA, Palestinian Territory — Palestinian activists have built a monument to the late Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein in the West Bank. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article ...

Take post-Saddam Hussein Iraq as a case in point. After the Iraqi dictator was overthrown by a U.S.-led coalition in 2003, President George W. Bush asked Ambassador Paul Bremer to act as Iraq’s ...