For Iraqis who lived through the 1990s, dictator Saddam Hussein's birthday on April 28 was a disorientating day of celebration and propaganda. Parties were staged across the sanctions-hit country to ...

Saddam Hussein cared more about his place in Iraq's history than the opinion of the citizenry he ruled over, said the former Federal Bureau of Investigation agent who led the interrogation of the late ...

During the Gulf War in February 1991, Eagle Troop of the 2nd Armored Cavalry Regiment pushed into a blinding sandstorm to ...

Filmmaker Hasan Hadi had to bring flowers to school to celebrate Saddam Hussein’s birthday. That memory loosely informs his ...

David Seidler and 'Hiding Saddam Hussein' director Halkawt Mustafa have written a script based on the relationship between Hussein and Alaa Namiq, the Iraqi farmer who hid the dictator in a hole after ...

Saddam Hussein ruled Iraq with an iron fist for over two decades, maintaining control through fear, violence, and suppression of any opposition. However, his reign came to an end in 2006 when a US-led ...

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Saddam Hussein, the shotgun-waving dictator who ruled Iraq with a remorseless brutality for a quarter-century and was driven from power by a U.S.-led war that left his country in ...

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Hasan Hadi used his own memories of 1990s Iraq for the film Saddam enjoying a birthday cake in 2000 For Iraqis who lived through the 1990s, dictator Saddam Hussein's birthday on April 28 was a ...