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 ...

Hasan Hadi's tragicomedy about Iraqi kids' big-city misadventures layers charm, insight and drama.

For Iraqis who lived through the 1990s, dictator Saddam Hussein's birthday on April 28 was a disorientating day of celebration and propaganda. - Tragic 'randomness' - Hadi drew on his own memories of ...

B A G H D A D, Iraq, July 1, 2004 -- Defiant, belligerent and a little anxious, former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein appeared before a single Iraqi judge in a courtroom near Baghdad today to hear ...

Hasan Hadi’s film The President’s Cake centres on a deceptively simple premise: every year, schoolchildren were selected to ...

Now that the handover of sovereignty in Iraq has happened, Saddam Hussein will face justice. Organized under the Coalition Provisional Authority, the Iraqi Special Tribunal for Crimes Against Humanity ...

Iraq executes former Major General Saadoun Sabri al-Qaisi for his role in the 1980 killing of Shiite cleric Mohammed Baqir al-Sadr.

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 ...

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 ...

Dick Cheney was once the face of hard-line conservatism. Then hard-line conservatism changed. By Robert Draper He made billions selling energy with his Coastal Corporation, courted presidents and ...

He made billions selling energy with his Coastal Corporation, courted presidents and dictators, and eventually went to prison for paying kickbacks to the Iraqi government. By Robert D. McFadden It ...

Saddam Hussein may have lost his life today. But he really died on Dec. 13, 2003. That was the day he was found by U.S. forces, hiding in a hole on a relative’s farm outside his hometown of Tikrit. No ...