Shortly after the 2003 invasion, the U.S. gutted Iraq’s entire civil service through the de-Baathification policy. Modeled after the denazification policy in post-war Germany, t ...

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

Car bombs and militant attacks are no longer a daily concern in the streets of Baghdad as they were in the chaotic years ...

Michelle Goldberg has been an Opinion columnist since 2017. She is the author of several books about politics, religion and ...

Every war has its battles for the cities and in 2003 as US forces, aided predominantly by the United Kingdom, invaded Saddam ...

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.

The premise of aiming to affect, influence and control will and perception must be the key to a strategy of shock and awe.

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

Iraq’s top court has suspended implementation of three controversial bills passed last month by the country’s parliament, including a measure that activists say undermines women’s rights.

Learn how Saddam Hussein ruled Iraq with an iron fist for almost 30 years. To maintain power, he used fear, intimidation and violence like few other dictators in history, but he made the fatal ...

BAGHDAD (AP) — Car bombs and militant attacks are no longer a daily concern in the streets of Baghdad as they were in the ...

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 ...