Iraq's National Security Agency says it has arrested a former high-level security official for his involvement in the 1980 ...

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.

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 Muslim world at large, and the Arab world in particular has its own collection of misanthropes who, over many centuries abused their own people and subjugated others for personal gain and power.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

"Bush developed a sense that there was unfinished business from the first Persian Gulf War in the early 1990s, that leaving Saddam in power had been a mistake,” recalled journalist Barton Gellman.