Iraqis will head to the polls in their country’s sixth parliamentary elections since the 2003 US-led invasion that toppled ...

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

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

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

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

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, ...

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 ...

Cannes: In his debut feature, Iraqi filmmaker Hasan Hadi wisely prioritizes character and story, letting brutal dictatorship ...

And still, Saddam Hussein, like a Marie Antoinette of sorts, continued threatened consequences if Iraqis did not celebrate his April 28 birthday with a lavish cake, as if supplies were easy to attain.

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 ...