The Shia leader withdrew from the political process three years ago to position his bloc for a powerful return.

Driving through Baghdad in the days before the Gulf War in January 1991, I was struck by the giant pictures of Saddam Hussein ...

It is now called Baghdad Central Prison, and has water fountains, a freshly planted garden and a gym -- complete with weights and sports teams' jerseys on the walls. Under Saddam ...

This is MORNING EDITION from NPR News. I'm Renee Montagne. Authorities in Iraq have referred Saddam Hussein to stand trial for a 1982 massacre in a Shiite village. No date for the trial has been set, ...

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 ...

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Saddam Hussein's wife and eldest daughter are among 41 people on the Iraqi government's most wanted list, along with the new leader of al-Qaida in Iraq, a top official announced ...

Former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein has been executed. Saddam had been sentenced to death for the killing of 148 people who were detained after an attempt to assassinate him in the northern Iraqi ...

Last week the man preparing Iraq’s declaration, the chief of its inspections-monitoring directorate, General Hussam Mohammed Amin, repeated Saddam’s constant claim: Iraq has no more weapons of mass ...

Oscar Wyatt, the Texas oil executive who admitted to paying kickbacks to Saddam Hussein’s regime under the UN oil-for-food ...

B A G H D A D, Iraq, July 1, 2004 -- Defiant, belligerent and a little anxious, former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein appeared before a single Iraqi judge in a courtroom near Baghdad today to hear ...

Dec. 30, 2006 — -- As the United States approaches the grim milestone of 3,000 servicemen killed in Iraq, the trend lines are going in the wrong direction. This month has the dubious distinction ...