Flight 149, scheduled to fly from London Heathrow to Kuala Lumpur, via stops in Kuwait and Madras (now Chennai), was briefly ...

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 ...

"New information has come to light to challenge the official narrative, and the surviving hostages are taking the British ...

In the wake of the execution of former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein a fuller picture has gradually emerged of how his final moments played out. In an interview with the BBC, one of the witnesses, ...

Iranians, regardless of their grievances, appear to prioritize national cohesion when confronted with external or ...

The American University of Baghdad has celebrated the graduation of its first cohort of students at a campus that was once a ...

Learn how Saddam Hussein ruled Iraq with an iron fist for almost 30 years. To maintain power, he used fear, intimidation and violence like few other dictators in history, but he made the fatal ...

AMMAN — The Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party suspended its activities in Syria following the fall of the Assad regime and the escape of Bashar al-Assad, thus turning a page in the history of one of ...

Mark Hoppus of Blink-182 says he not only inspired Green Day to make "American Idiot," but the successful capture of Saddam Hussein, too.

Saddam Hussein was captured after a tip-off led American troops to a small, underground hole concealed next to farm buildings near the former leader's hometown of Tikrit. Soldiers were seconds away ...