Iraqis head to the polls Nov. 11 to elect 329 parliament members for a four-year term, marking the seventh free election ...

Days after Trump’s vaunted intervention in the Middle East to force the return of the Israeli hostages in Gaza, he could have ...

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, ...

On January 30, 1991, after a powerful day-long assault by coalition forces, Saddam Hussein's already small navy faced ...

His visit would be the first trip to Iraq by an Iranian president since the nations fought an eight-year war that killed at least a million people in the 1980s. If a date has been ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

On July 22, 1979, Iraq's new president, Saddam Hussein, convened a Baathist Party meeting, accusing members of plotting ...