Pre-Saddam Iraq was a promising and inspiring country—a state of genuine human and material development with solid foundations. Free education, widespread literacy, modern farms and factories, a ...

Former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein has been executed. Saddam had been sentenced to death for the killing of 148 people who were detained after an attempt to assassinate him in the northern Iraqi ...

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 ...

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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Saddam Hussein combined a shrewd tactical mind with a taste for violence as he rose from humble beginnings to enjoy three decades of absolute power in Iraq. But overarching ...

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. It was ...