A survivor of two major wars and numerous assassination attempts, Iraqi President Saddam Hussein is following a well-thought-out strategy for extracting a political and propaganda victory from almost ...

BAGHDAD — American soldiers tracked a scruffy and haggard Saddam Hussein to a dirt hole at a farmhouse near his hometown of Tikrit, capturing the elusive dictator without firing a shot and unleashing ...

On the morning of Eid al-Adha in December 2006, Raghad Saddam Hussein, her sister and their children squeezed together in front of the television in Raghad’s home in Amman and wept as they watched ...

To the surprise of some observers, Donald Trump has recently given a few campaign-trail shout-outs to Saddam Hussein -- a man the United States twice went to war with. Most recently -- though not for ...

U.S. troops pushed aside a battered piece of Styrofoam and a dingy piece of carpet covering a tiny hole in the ground. And there he was, filthy and disheveled, the most wanted man in Iraq, staring ...

BAGHDAD — In a grainy video of Saddam Hussein’s execution shown on television here early today, new details emerged about the deposed Iraqi president’s final moments. In the video, which seems to have ...

The Iraqi leader rose from a poor childhood to assume brutal control of his country and head a sometimes brutal family. Hussein al-Majid, Hussein's father: A peasant farmer, he died a short time after ...

Stuck in his personal prison, Saddam Hussein seemed a benign presence to his 12-man band of U.S. guards who watched him as the former Iraqi dictator was tried for crimes against humanity. Smoking the ...

Windsor Castle played host to a meeting of the heirs. 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 ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Apr 28 1937: Saddam Hussein is born in the village al-Awja, near the town of Tikrit in north-central Iraq. His ...