In spring 2003, exuberance at the fall of Saddam was swiftly followed by a descent into deadly chaos. Whether moving independently or embedded with troops, Guardian reporters witnessed the violence on ...

A film whose ingredients include eggs, flour, sugar and economic sanctions sounds improbable, but The President’s Cake takes those materials to confect a universal story of childhood and survival.

Pre-Saddam Iraq was a promising and inspiring country—a state of genuine human and material development with solid foundations. Free education, widespread literacy, modern farms and factories, a ...

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, ...

FILE - Boys sit next to a mural of Shiite clerics Mohammad Baqir al-Sadr, left, and Mohammad Sadiq al-Sadr, right, in Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, April 6, 2013, painted over a portrait of former dictator ...

Nov. 5, 2006 — -- Saddam Hussein and two co-defendants have been found guilty of murder and crimes against humanity, and sentenced to death by hanging over the 1982 killings of 148 people in the ...

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Iraqi authorities stepped up defensive preparations in and around Baghdad on Sunday, as Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein warned that if Iraq is attacked it will take the war anywhere in ...

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 ...

BAGHDAD — Iraq's National Security Agency said Friday it arrested a former high-level security official for his involvement in the 1980 execution of a prominent Shiite cleric and his sister during ...