It is now called Baghdad Central Prison, and has water fountains, a freshly planted garden and a gym -- complete with weights and sports teams' jerseys on the walls. Under Saddam ...

The Tomahawk is the workhorse of the United States’ missile arsenal. It’s been deployed in strikes in Syria and Libya and was ...

Driving through Baghdad in the days before the Gulf War in January 1991, I was struck by the giant pictures of Saddam Hussein ...

Dec. 30, 2006 — -- As the United States approaches the grim milestone of 3,000 servicemen killed in Iraq, the trend lines are going in the wrong direction. This month has the dubious distinction ...

Ah, what a romance it was! From Morocco to Bahrain, many Arabs a decade ago would practically swoon as they described their adoration of the man who defied America during the gulf crisis. Iraqi ...

A CURIOUS THING seems to have happened on the way to the war against Saddam Hussein. Despite President Bush’s oft-stated commitment to “regime change” in Iraq, media reports have been rife with ...

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Iraqi authorities charged Saddam Hussein with genocide Tuesday, accusing him of trying to exterminate the Kurds in a 1980s campaign that killed an estimated 100,000 -- the first move ...

This is MORNING EDITION from NPR News. I'm Renee Montagne. Authorities in Iraq have referred Saddam Hussein to stand trial for a 1982 massacre in a Shiite village. No date for the trial has been set, ...

Former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein has been executed. Saddam had been sentenced to death for the killing of 148 people who were detained after an attempt to assassinate him in the northern Iraqi ...

Listen Subscribe to unlock this feature or Sign in. Request reprint permissions here. Sometimes foreign policy lies downstream from technology. When navies ran on wind, the lumber that could produce ...

Last week the man preparing Iraq’s declaration, the chief of its inspections-monitoring directorate, General Hussam Mohammed Amin, repeated Saddam’s constant claim: Iraq has no more weapons of mass ...