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 ...

Saddam Hussein hiding place memes are a strange legacy for a brutal dictator who was ultimately executed for his crimes against humanity. But it also just goes to show that you never know what the ...

Saddam Hussein claimed he is alive, well and still in Iraq in an audio tape broadcast by Gulf Satellite TV station Al-Jazeera. The voice purporting to be the deposed dictator vowed more attacks on ...

Learn how six dictators, from Mussolini to Saddam Hussein, shaped the 20th century ... ruling their nations with an iron fist. Suppressing dissent, they demanded absolute loyalty, jailing or ...

Since the US-led invasion toppled the regime of Saddam Hussein in 2003, he said, the Christian community had dwindled by 83%, from around 1.5 million to just 250,000. "Christianity in Iraq," he ...

“At the time, there was so much worry about Saddam Hussein, and I remember seeing ... back to the question of evil that ...

Ahead of the 2016 elections, the then-GOP candidate was on record praising Saddam Hussein, Vladimir Putin, Kim Jong Un, and ...

Border skirmishes preceded the invasion. Iraqi President Saddam Hussein claimed that Iran's Islamic government was trying to destabilize his country and the whole Middle East. But the then UN chief ...

Al-Monitor is an award-winning media outlet covering the Middle East, valued for its independence, diversity and analysis. It is read widely by US, international and Middle East decision makers at the ...

During his presidential campaign, you were not allowed to question him, even when he admitted to the now deceased Joe the Plumber, his belief in "spreading the wealth around." And so it was, in no ...

A golden assault rifle from one of Saddam Hussein's palaces is going on display for the first time. The AK-47 is thought to have been gifted to someone by the Iraqi dictator. The weapon is part of ...

The footage of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein crawling out of a hole in the ground in 2003 is iconic. Now, 20 years later, the man who dug that hole tells the fantastical story of how he ...