And because the U.S. military was unprepared for the kind of fight it found itself in during the Iraq War, the lessons to be learned is that the Americans should not become so rigid on things like ...

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The Iraqi man who was filmed attacking Saddam Hussein's statue with a sledgehammer when U.S. troops stormed into Baghdad in 2003 said Iraq was in a better shape under his rule ...

The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the CIA, and the Origins of America’s Invasion of Iraq, Steve Coll ... him out of a shallow hole in December 2003. Just before they found him, Saddam had ...

The recent release of Sir John Chilcot’s inquiry into the origins of the Iraq War has predictably ... Since the American-led invasion toppled Saddam Hussein in 2003, a series of government ...

Learn how Saddam Hussein ruled Iraq with an iron fist for almost 30 ... Just five days after becoming president in 1979, Saddam sent a powerful message to anyone who would oppose him.

Saddam Hussein, a key figure in the party, steadily consolidated power behind the scenes and officially became president in 1979 ... disarm Iraq, leading to a US-led invasion in March 2003 ...

Twenty years have passed since United States-led coalition forces invaded Iraq, starting a war ... such a diplomatic scenario. In 1979, when Saddam Hussein staged his coup, the ambassador was ...

At least 182,000 Kurds were systematically executed by Saddam Hussein’s Ba’ath regime in the late 1980s. Tens of thousands were purportedly taken to Iraq’s southern desert ... of the Ba’athist regime ...

Inclusivity and moderation are indeed immediate priorities for Syria, but a big national vote is not. Democracy does not ...

A mass grave has been uncovered in Iraq that, authorities say, contains the remains of Kurds, including women and children, who were killed nearly four decades ago under Saddam Hussein's regime.