Iraq’s National Security Agency says it has arrested a former high-level security official for his involvement in the 1980 ...

Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia Al-Sudani announced on Friday that security forces had arrested a group of former officers ...

Taking a sledgehammer to the entire civil service is going to cause chaos. Projects will slow, institutional knowledge will be lost, safety standards will slip and corruption will become the norm.

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.

Decades after a brutal regime's fall, a shadow from the past resurfaces, stirring memories of a dark chapter in Iraq's history.

And he was responsible for the single deadliest attack by any Arab government on its own people, surpassing Saddam Hussein’s 1988 massacre of Kurds in Halabja: In 1982, he obliterated the Syrian ...

left, and Mohammad Sadiq al-Sadr, right, in Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, April 6, 2013, painted over a portrait of former dictator Saddam Hussein. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim, File) ...

Iraq’s highest court has temporarily suspended the enforcement of three contentious laws passed by parliament last month, ...

After the fall of the Assad regime, Syrians grasp for answers and a path to restoration under new president Ahmed al-Sharaa.

James Davis, the former FBI agent who led the team that processed Saddam Hussein after his capture in Iraq and later led the Denver Field Office, has died. Davis was walking his dog when he had a ...