Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Boys sit next to a mural of Shiite clerics Mohammad Baqir al-Sadr, ...

His opposition intensified following the 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran, which heightened Saddam’s fears of a Shiite-led uprising in Iraq. In 1980, as the government moved against Shiite ...

His opposition intensified following the 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran, which heightened Saddam’s fears of a Shiite-led uprising in Iraq.

A towering statue of Saddam Hussein was today pulled to the ground in a symbolic act against the dictator's oppressive regime. Working together in the heart of Baghdad, US marines helped crowds of ...

A 34-year-old Muslim man converted to Hinduism to marry his girlfriend with whom he had an affair for the past 10 years, changing his name from Saddam to Shivshankar, police said on Monday.

Take post-Saddam Hussein Iraq as a case in point. After the Iraqi dictator was overthrown by a U.S.-led coalition in 2003, President George W. Bush asked Ambassador Paul Bremer to act as Iraq’s ...

Iraq's National Security Agency said Friday it arrested a former high-level security official for his involvement in the 1980 execution of a prominent Shiite cleric and his sister during Saddam ...

Twenty years after the fall of Saddam Hussein's hated regime, Iraq has emerged not as a supplicant nation but as a sovereign partner, signing multi-billion pound deals with one of the world's ...