A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On Dec. 13, 2003, Saddam Hussein was captured by U.S. forces while hiding in a hole under a farmhouse in Adwar, Iraq, ...

The instantly recognisable face peers out from everything from bumper stickers to mobile phone cases in Jordan, despite symbols and images associated with his rule being widely considered taboo in ...

The passage of 20 years has not healed the wounds inflicted by the U.S. invasion of Saddam Hussein’s Iraq on March 20, 2003. According to the conservative estimates of the Costs of War Project at ...

This step is important for Iraq because it continues to show that Baghdad can get some justice for victims of the Saddam era.

The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, The C.I.A., and the Origins of America’s Invasion of Iraq; By Steve Coll Penguin Press; 576 pp., $35.00 Steve Coll’s riveting new history, The Achilles Trap: Saddam ...

Bursts of celebratory gunfire went up as dawn broke in Baghdad, where news of Saddam Hussein’s execution reached people as they awoke. After the echoes of the shots faded, people went to their ...

In late 2002, Saddam Hussein seemed more concerned with writing novels than the prospects of an American invasion of Iraq. Saddam in this pivotal period thought the U.S. knew he had no weapons of mass ...

Therefore, anyone who imagines that, left to its own devices, post-Saddam Iraq will become a democracy, or cease to seek weapons of mass destruction, or have qualitatively different relations with its ...

Ah, what a romance it was! From Morocco to Bahrain, many Arabs a decade ago would practically swoon as they described their adoration of the man who defied America during the gulf crisis. Iraqi ...

84-year-old Latif al Ani was Iraq's most famous documentary photographer during the country's cosmopolitan 60s. But as Saddam Hussein rose to power, he was driven into retirement. Scroll through to ...

The instantly recognisable face peers out from everything from bumper stickers to mobile phone cases in Jordan, despite symbols and images associated with his rule ...