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

But blaming the coalition that overthrew Saddam Hussein for Iraq’s current state is an ... but it was not coalition soldiers who killed hundreds of thousands of Iraqis. On the contrary, American ...

Saddam Hussein did not possess stockpiles of illicit weapons at the time of the U.S. invasion in March 2003 and had not begun any program to produce them, a CIA report concludes. In fact, the ...

Iraqi President Saddam Hussein is striking a defiant tone a day after U.S. President George Bush's State of the Union address, saying his nation is ready to "destroy and defeat" any American attack.

Saddam Hussein's engineers and soldiers turned it into a desert after ... leaving us in a silence I've never before experienced in Iraq. A few moments later, two dozen Iraqi men and boys from ...

UMM QASR, Iraq (CNN) --Coalition soldiers working to stabilize the Iraqi port city of Umm Qasr are finding that Saddam Hussein still holds much influence there, more than a decade after quelling ...

Three U.S. soldiers died in northern Iraq today in the second fatal attack on troops from the 101st Airborne Division since they killed Saddam Hussein's feared sons Uday and Qusay in a fierce ...

The Fall of Baghdad occurred on April 9, 2003, when US forces captured Iraq’s capital, marking a significant turning point in ...

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 Iraq tribunal announced new criminal charges against former president Saddam Hussein and six others Tuesday, accusing them of "genocide and crimes against humanity" stemming from a 1980s ...

President Saddam Hussein announced on Friday the end of a month-long campaign for volunteers to fight Israel, saying more than six million Iraqis had come forward. Volunteers between October 10 and ...