Here’s a look at the life of the late former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein.Personal:Birth date: April 28, 1937Death ...

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

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

Understandably enough, Saddam Hussein ... Iraq 'accepted and would implement' all UN Security Council resolutions concerning the country. So the gap - if there is a real one at all - between ...

In 2005, the U.S. Agency for International Development sent me to Baghdad. I witnessed first hand ... In 2006, when Iraq elected a new government, the public expected the lights to go on, trash ...

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 ... west of Baghdad, a hotspot in the "Sunni triangle ...

BAGHDAD (AP) — 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 ...

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 push back ...

Baghdad, a city of nearly 9 million ... The project underscores growing international interest in developing Iraq’s sports infrastructure, particularly for activities beyond the country ...

BAGHDAD — Iraq's National Security ... Shiite cleric and his sister during Saddam Hussein ’s brutal crackdown on religious opposition. Iraq arrests former security official over execution ...

Saddam Hussein’s regime executed him in 1980 ... admitted to carrying out Al-Sadr’s execution in April 1980 in the Bismayah area south of Baghdad. Alongside Sabri, four other officers confessed to ...