There's a lot to be gleaned from this detailed, balanced biography of Saddam Hussein—and there's a lot that's controversial as well. A journalist who has worked as a consultant to the Iraqi government ...

In the pantheon of bloodthirsty dictators, Iraqi strongman Saddam Hussein has almost been relegated to the dustbin of history. He’s remembered as part of the now-quaint-seeming “axis of evil,” for ...

Dec. 30, 2006 — -- Saddam Hussein was hanged for ordering the deaths of 148 Shiite men and boys in the village of Dujail after an assassination attempt there in 1982. But by the standards of his ...

A gold-plated AK-47 believed to have been owned by former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein is to go on public display for the first time. Hussein and his sons gave the gleaming rifle to "people they ...