Saddam Hussein called on his people today to join a holy war to defend their country from the "disgraceful crimes" of the US military assault on Iraq. In a broadcast on Iraqi state television ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Boys sit next to a mural of Shiite clerics Mohammad Baqir al-Sadr, left, and Mohammad Sadiq al-Sadr, right ...

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 ...

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

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) ...

Support among the American public for the war on Iraq today shot back to levels not seen since the outbreak of war. Following the capture of Saddam Hussein, people in the United States were also ...

Twenty years after the fall of Saddam Hussein's hated regime ... This is not the Iraq of 2003, broken by decades of dictatorship and war. This is a new Iraq – one that negotiates massive ...

Democracy does not itself guarantee peace in a country so recently riven by autocratic rule and a long civil war. Even more to ... Take post-Saddam Hussein Iraq as a case in point.

Note Includes bibliographical references and index. In Western Europe and North America the idea that war can deliberately be used as an 'instrument of policy' has become unfashionable, not least ...

One, of course, was Prince William, who received a visit from Jordan’s Crown Prince Al Hussein bin Abdullah II (better known to the public as Prince Hussein) today as part of the royal's private ...