The question "why did they stay?" haunts this engrossing memoir, as Salbi shows how Saddam Hussein "managed to make decent people like [her] parents complicit in their own oppression." "Growing up in ...
BAGHDAD - Saddam Hussein fondly remembers how his mother used to run her fingers through his hair and tell him children's stories during a poverty-stricken upbringing. Men and a City, a new ...
WASHINGTON — Saddam Hussein has been a familiar name since the Persian Gulf War in 1991. But as the United States again weighs the prospect of war with Iraq, the question of what to call the Iraqi ...
They are the gold-plated living memorials to the 20-year reign of Saddam Hussein, enormous in scale, exquisite in material and opulent in taste — the 100 palaces and “VIP luxury residences” Saddam has ...
Saddam Hussein may have lost his life today. But he really died on Dec. 13, 2003. That was the day he was found by U.S. forces, hiding in a hole on a relative’s farm outside his hometown of Tikrit. No ...
The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the CIA, and the Origins of America’s Invasion of Iraq, Steve Coll, Penguin Press, 576 pages Saddam Hussein was the first person I saw die on television. It was ...
Listen Subscribe to unlock this feature or Sign in. Request reprint permissions here. Sometimes foreign policy lies downstream from technology. When navies ran on wind, the lumber that could produce ...
The significance of the war in Ukraine to the Western world lies largely in its geography: It’s being fought in Europe, only a small distance away from some of the wealthiest and most avowedly ...
Journalist and TV presenter Sir Trevor McDonald rewatches his iconic 1990 ITN interview with Saddam Hussein for a new ITV series called Reporting History Sir Trevor McDonald has expressed his surprise ...