And, gathering his generals, he instructed them “to hold ... him and become embellished to the point of absurdity. Saddam Hussein was a cruel, evil man—it is said that he once fed one of ...

Learn how Saddam Hussein ruled Iraq with an iron fist for ... a botched assassination attempt against Iraq’s military ruler, General Abd al-Karim Qasim. He spun this failure into a tale that ...

One of Saddam Hussein’s alleged former weapons ... The party was described in a UN Commission on Human Rights and UN General Assembly report as an ‘all-pervasive order of repression and ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

After the 2003 fall of Saddam’s government, al-Qaisi fled to Syria, assuming the alias “Hajj Saleh” to evade prosecution, the ...

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 ...

left, and Mohammad Sadiq al-Sadr, right, in Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, April 6, 2013, painted over a portrait of former dictator Saddam Hussein. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim, File) ...