This decision, made quietly, cautiously, and with the best of intentions, reshaped the fate of a nation and the entire region ...

In 2002 and early 2003, President Bush and Vice President Cheney led the United States into yet another war with Iraq. "Saddam Hussein's regime is a grave and gathering danger," the president said.

Saddam: "I've answered the hypothesis, but to indulge in the details: Iraq does not burn its wealth and it does not destroy its dams. We hope that, however, that this question is not meant as an ...

The shotgun-waving dictator ruled Iraq with a remorseless brutality for a quarter-century and was driven from power by a U.S.-led war that left his country in shambles, It was a grim end for the ...

Iraq invaded Kuwait on Aug. 2, 1990, angry that the tiny neighbor and the United Arab Emirates had ignored OPEC quotas, which Saddam claimed cost his nation $14 billion.

As U.S. forces rolled into Iraq and Saddam’s forces collapsed, I drove into Iraq from Jordan, and found in the trashed VIP lounge of the border post an oil painting lying amid the detritus on ...

The Saddam Hussein that American troops found disheveled and disoriented in a spider hole outside Tikrit was a very different figure from the dictator Dan Rather interviewed last February in a ...

Some seven years after the U.S. toppled Saddam's government, this question still has not been answered. Will Iraq's new politics triumph over its cultural divides, or will its cultural/sectarian ...