Here’s a look at the life of the late former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. Personal:Birth date: April 28, 1937 Death date: December 30, 2006 Birth place: Tikrit, Iraq Birth name: Saddam Hussein Abd ...

Iraq’s top court has thrown out a legal challenge that had temporarily halted three controversial laws passed last month by the country’s parliament.

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres demanded an investigation into the death of a World Food Progamme worker, ...

Car bombs and militant attacks are no longer a daily concern in the streets of Baghdad as they were in the chaotic years after the fall of Saddam Hussein or at the height of the battle to pu ...

His itinerary, which is taking him to Baghdad ... Pope John Paul II’s planned visit to Iraq in 1999, ultimately canceled by then-president Saddam Hussein. “It was a great disappointment ...

US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld helped Saddam Hussein build up his arsenal of ... The CIA had already warned that Iraq was using chemical weapons almost daily. But Mr Rumsfeld, at the time ...

Qasim Sabti’s “Book Cover Collage” series references the destruction of libraries in Iraq, at the academy where Sabti taught, and all the way back to Baghdad’s legendary library ...

James Davis, the former FBI agent who led the team that processed Saddam Hussein after his capture in Iraq ... Davis served as the deputy on-scene commander of the bureau’s Baghdad Operations Center ...

The hopes of liberalization raised at the start of Hafez al-Assad's son's rule were short-lived. Urged by his family, the ...