The king’s speech pushed in interesting ways at the boundaries of what a British monarch might be expected to have said in Trump’s America.

“ Tell me how this ends,” a young General David Petraeus asked early in the Iraq War, after Saddam Hussein’s army had largely been defeated. The United States is extraordinarily good at the first half ...

EXCLUSIVE: Waleed Zuaiter will play Saddam Hussein in High Value Target, the series adaptation of John Nixon’s nonfiction book Debriefing the President. For All Mankind star Joel Kinnaman already had ...

Ontario Education Minister Paul Calandra is defending his decision to take over the Near North District School Board (NNDSB), going as far as comparing the board’s former director of education to the ...

The United States quickly discovered, however, that military success did not equal political victory. Inspectors found no evidence of the weapons of mass destruction (WMD) that had been the reason for ...

Saddam Hussein governed Iraq with ruthless authority for more than two decades, maintaining his grip on the Middle Eastern country through intimidation, violence and absolute power, whilst eliminating ...

Hussein was officially convicted of crimes against humanity related to a 1982 massacre in Dujail, where 148 Shi'ite men and boys were brutally killed (Image: AP) Saddam Hussein ruled Iraq with an iron ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. President Trump’s military operation against Iran risks repeating the unforeseen consequences of the Iraq war ...

As a child growing up in 1990s Iraq, Hasan Hadi feared one particular day each year: when teachers would pick children who had to prepare gifts for Saddam Hussein's birthday, a compulsory national ...

The country is a mess. A megalomaniacal leader demands total fealty from not only the citizens of the country he leads, but from all of the subordinate levels of government beneath him. Anyone who ...

Saddam Hussein has a long history of using violence to achieve political ends. Read a selective list of events from his life, including milestones... From his early days as a dangerous Baathist ...

August 1st 1990 was blisteringly hot. In Liverpool the entire stock at a chocolate factory melted, and at a castle in Essex a waxwork knight turned into a puddle. It was so warm that the tarmac at ...