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.

The original Soviet-era missiles performed poorly in accuracy tests, but Iraqi modifications made them far worse.

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.

The Muslim world at large, and the Arab world in particular has its own collection of misanthropes who, over many centuries abused their own people and subjugated others for personal gain and power.

Here’s What You Need to Remember: As with any counterfactual, it’s difficult to grapple with the full implications of the death of Saddam Hussein during the 1991 Gulf War. A successful..

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 ...

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 ...