Some of the most important assets for the US led coalition in the Second Gulf War of 2003 were FAC(A) trained aircrews. Fixed targets were limited and the key was finding and identifying moving Iraqi ...

Saddam Hussein, Iraq’s authoritarian president from 1979 to 2003, ruled through violent repression, including genocide, ...

Night - Partly cloudy. Winds N at 7 mph (11.3 kph). The overnight low will be 59 °F (15 °C). Sunny with a high of 87 °F (30.6 °C). Winds variable at 7 to 9 mph (11.3 to 14.5 kph). Thunderstorms today ...

(CNN) -- A private contractor recorded his Humvee getting struck by a roadside bomb and gunfire as he was working in Iraq in October 2005. "D," who asked that his name be withheld for fear of ...

Iraq attempted to ally itself with Germany and ... Like Bakr, Hussein was from Tikrit, a Sunni town north of Baghdad that historically had fielded a disproportionate share of army officers.

Iraqi Shiites are a diverse group ... from the region around Tikrit. Apart from hunting down and killing their former Communist rivals, Saddam and his militantly secular colleagues also took ...

On April 14, 1775, the first slavery abolition society in North America -- the Society for the Relief of Free Negroes ...

US troops moved into Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit yesterday as a senior defence ... without a fight as they rolled past abandoned Iraqi military equipment. As fighting wound down, US ...

Sunnis from Tikrit had to pay a price ... Like in the case of a clique or coterie in the form of co-tribes in Iraq or Libya, the ruling clique in Syria assumed an even more polarising dimension ...