Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The scene, a large smoke-filled room in Baghdad 40 years ago on July 22 1979. About a hundred unsuspecting Ba'athist party members ...

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Government rhetoric against Saddam Hussein's Baath party will woo some Iraqi Shi'ite voters ahead of an election, but many people feel uneasy about a return to the sectarian ...

Saddam Hussein, the dictator of Iraq whose brutality and appetite for expansion ultimately drew his nation into direct conflict with the U.S. superpower, was captured alive in his home town of Tikrit, ...

The top U.S. administrator in Iraq announced on Friday an easing of the ban on members of Saddam Hussein’s disbanded party, a move that could allow thousands of former Baathists to return to their ...

BAGHDAD, Iraq—An expected purge this week of Iraqi judges and prosecutors threatens to derail the much-anticipated trial of Saddam Hussein. Despite pleas from Iraq's president and concerns that the ...

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