Bursts of celebratory gunfire went up as dawn broke in Baghdad, where news of Saddam Hussein’s execution reached people as they awoke. After the echoes of the shots faded, people went to their ...

On April 26, a devastating explosion tore through Iran’s bustling port city of Bandar Abbas, claiming 57 lives and injuring over 1,200 people. The blast was centered at the Shahid Rajaee port, Iran’s ...

In “The Achilles Trap,” Steve Coll paints the demise of the Iraqi dictator as a tragedy of misperceptions on both sides. A U.S. marine with a statue of Saddam Hussein in downtown Baghdad in 2003, ...

Saddam Hussein may have lost his life today. But he really died on Dec. 13, 2003. That was the day he was found by U.S. forces, hiding in a hole on a relative’s farm outside his hometown of Tikrit. No ...

DUJAIL, Iraq (Reuters) - Saddam Hussein was hanged for killing 148 Shi'ite men and boys in Dujail in 1982. But today, some people in this town on the Tigris say they miss life under the Iraqi dictator ...

Listen Subscribe to unlock this feature or Sign in. Request reprint permissions here. Sometimes foreign policy lies downstream from technology. When navies ran on wind, the lumber that could produce ...

BAGHDAD — Of his countless stories of his life as a hairdresser in Iraq, the one Qaiss al-Sharaa most enjoys retelling is about the day April 9, 2003, when he watched Iraqis and American Marines pull ...

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A subdued Saddam Hussein was led shackled into a hall early on Saturday in Baghdad, a noose was placed around his neck and a guard pulled a lever that swiftly ended his life and a ...

The original Soviet-era missiles performed poorly in accuracy tests, but Iraqi modifications made them far worse. During the 1991 Gulf War, as the Americans led a coalition against Saddam Hussein to ...