An Iraqi woman claiming to be the daughter of Saddam Hussein has taken the internet by storm after posting a video on social ...

Iraq’s National Security Agency says it has arrested a former high-level security official for his involvement in the 1980 ...

Shortly after the 2003 invasion, the U.S. gutted Iraq’s entire civil service through the de-Baathification policy. Modeled after the denazification policy in post-war Germany, t ...

The original Soviet-era missiles performed poorly in accuracy tests, but Iraqi modifications made them far worse.

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.

A 34-year-old Muslim man, Saddam, converted to Hinduism and married his girlfriend of 10 years amid allegations of rape and threats by the woman. The couple married willingly in a temple, with Saddam ...

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 ...

Assyrian Church in North Iraq Bombed by Saddam in 1988. Remains of an Assyrian church in North Iraq, bombed by the Saddam Regime in the late 1980's. Assyrian girl watches as villagers work on ...

Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia Al-Sudani announced on Friday that security forces had arrested a group of former officers ...

"Bush developed a sense that there was unfinished business from the first Persian Gulf War in the early 1990s, that leaving Saddam in power had been a mistake,” recalled journalist Barton Gellman.

His opposition intensified following the 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran, which heightened Saddam’s fears of a Shiite-led uprising in Iraq. In 1980, as the government moved against Shiite ...

U.S. officials shared the information with Iraq even though they knew that Saddam Hussein's military was likely to respond by attacking with the lethal nerve agent sarin and other chemical weapons ...