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

It seemed such a significant responsibility on behalf of the FBI. I went to Barnes & Noble and bought two books on Saddam Hussein so I could start improving my understanding of who he was and all ...

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 ...

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 catastrophic events.

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 ...

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

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 ...

Rahman’s absence has sparked criticism from those who see it as part of a larger pattern of historical revisionism. For many, ...

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

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 ...