There's a lot to be gleaned from this detailed, balanced biography of Saddam Hussein—and there's a lot that's controversial as well. A journalist who has worked as a consultant to the Iraqi government ...

In the pantheon of bloodthirsty dictators, Iraqi strongman Saddam Hussein has almost been relegated to the dustbin of history. He’s remembered as part of the now-quaint-seeming “axis of evil,” for ...

Four leaders of the new Iraq met with Saddam Hussein the day after U.S. forces detained him. One of the leaders describes his conversation with the ousted dictator. Adnan Pachachi was foreign minister ...

Dec. 3, 2003 — -- Some $132 million of money that Saddam Hussein withdrew from the Iraqi Central Bank is believed to be funding the Iraqi insurgency against U.S. troops, U.S. officials told ...

The Fedayeen Saddam were loyal to one man: Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. Established in 1995, it was an irregular unit designed to protect the Ba’athist regime and the Iraqi president himself. It was ...

Capsized in a river in southern Iraq, the rusting wreck of a yacht that belonged to Saddam Hussein serves as a stark reminder of his iron-fisted rule that ended with the US-led invasion two decades ...

The Iraqi government blindsided its U.S. legal advisers when it announced it was removing the lead judge in Saddam Hussein’s second trial Tuesday night. Officials in Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s ...