It was one of the largest manhunts in history. Having been ousted from power following the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq, Saddam Hussein, the country’s once all-powerful and ruthless leader, went into ...

A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On Dec. 13, 2003, Saddam Hussein was captured by U.S. forces while hiding in a hole under a farmhouse in Adwar, Iraq, ...

The noose around the dictator’s neck was one of the most striking images ever viewed across the Arab world — an Arab president being held to account. Still, for much of the Arab world, the execution ...

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 ...

Two months before the start of the war, I visited a small village on the Iraqi border with Kuwait. The local elder, a spry septuagenarian known as Abu Mohammed, was keenly aware that when the fighting ...

The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the CIA, and the Origins of America’s Invasion of Iraq, Steve Coll, Penguin Press, 576 pages Saddam Hussein was the first person I saw die on television. It was ...

Deposed Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein is buried before dawn Sunday near Tikrit, where his rise to power began. Leaders of his tribe may have been... Saddam Is Buried Near His Home Village Deposed Iraqi ...

Two months after the Iraqi invasion, Kuwait's rulers decided they needed a bit of investigatory work. There had long been rumors that Saddam Hussein had billions of dollars squirreled away in secret ...

Nov. 5, 2006 — -- Saddam Hussein and two co-defendants have been found guilty of murder and crimes against humanity, and sentenced to death by hanging over the 1982 killings of 148 people in the ...

This week I reached out for a Mars bar, available at finer candy counters, movie theaters, supermarkets, vending machines -- and slobby, rat-infested hideouts for deposed Iraqi dictators. According to ...

Article link: https://www.foreignaffairs.com/responses/saddam-and-rise-isishttps://www.foreignaffairs.com/responses/saddam-and-rise-isis Helfont and Brill then wrote ...

The story of the last months of Saddam Hussein’s life is to be told via a feature film from Fremantle and Sinestra. The Prisoner in His Palace is one of the first projects to emerge from the ...