The head of a committee charged with purging Iraqi institutions of members of Saddam Hussein’s Baath party is shot dead in Baghdad.

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Anti-Baath chief killed in Iraq

If he wanted a trial, didn’t he have 10 years to surrender? The adult sons of Osama bin Laden have lashed out at the United States, saying it violated the law by killing an unarmed man and saying he should have been tried like Saddam Hussein and…

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Bin Laden Sons: U.S. Broke the Law

It took them 20 years, but Iraqi lawmakers approved a contentious $400 million settlement on Saturday for Americans who claimed they were abused by Saddam Hussein’s regime during the U.S. invasion of Kuwait in 1990. The settlement is part of a deal…

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Iraqis to Pay $400M to Americans

This isn’t just another Mideast protest-this one is aimed squarely at America. Iraq’s Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr and his followers staged a massive demonstration on Saturday-the eighth anniversary of Saddam Hussein’s fall-demanding that both U.S….

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Iraqis Protest Against U.S. Presence

Violence has broken out in Saddam Hussein’s hometown. At least 15 people were killed Tuesday, with dozens wounded, when gunmen stormed a government building in Tikrit, a town in north Iraq that was home to the strongman. The attackers wore police…

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Fifteen Dead in Iraq Fighting

A wave of sometimes violent unrest has shaken the Kurdish region, posing a rare challenge to the entrenched political powers that have led the area for decades, during and after Saddam Hussein.

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Iraqi Kurdistan, Known as Haven, Faces Unrest

Well, that explains it. The Iraqi defector whom U.S. intelligence used to prove that Iraq had a weapons of mass destruction program says he invented the whole thing in his desperation to topple Saddam Hussein. Rafid Ahmed Alwan al-Janabi, nicknamed…

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Key Iraq WMD Source: I Lied

Borat would approve: Sacha Baron Cohen is going to adapt Saddam Hussein’s novel, Zabibah and the King, for the big screen in 2012. Saddam’s novel tells the story of a dictator who”risked his life to ensure that democracy would never come to the country…

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Sacha Baron Cohen to Adapt Saddam Novel

Borat and Bruno actor Sacha Baron Cohen is to star in a comedy inspired by a book thought to be written by former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein.

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Baron Cohen to make Saddam film

An extraordinary Iraqi archive kept classified until this week reveals how Saddam Hussein attempted to win Soviet support before the first United States war with Iraq.

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In ’91, Hussein Sought Soviet Help to Head Off U.S.

How many public images of Saddam Hussein remain in Iraq?

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At War: Last Surviving Public Image of Saddam?

The Mesopotamian Marshes in southern Iraq were once home to thousands of marsh Arabs, millions of birds and rebels fighting against Saddam Hussein.

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Restoring Eden out of Iraq’s desert

Weir Group is fined £3m for breaching UN sanctions by doing business with Saddam Hussein’s regime.

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Weir fined £3m over Saddam deals

Weir Group apologises for breaching UN sanctions on Iraq by doing business with Saddam Hussein’s regime.

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Weir sorry over Saddam kickbacks

A heartwarming story out of Iraq. Zainab Salbi was born in Baghdad to a family in Iraq’s elite-her father was Saddam Hussein’s personal pilot-but moved to the U.S. in 1990. Her neighbor, Radhiya Ajrad, from a poor farming family, worked as a live-in…

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Two Iraqi Women Find Each Other After 20 Years