Back to homepage / Live news Shock and awe: the toppling of Saddam Hussein 20 years ago. Paris (AFP) – It took just three weeks for the decades-old regime of Iraq's feared dictator Saddam ...

Saddam Hussein's golden AK-47 goes on display for the first time ever in a U.K. museum. ... It will open almost exactly 20 years after Hussein was captured by U.S. forces on Dec. 13, 2003.

When U.S.-led forces toppled Saddam Hussein in 2003, Adel Amer celebrated what he thought marked the end of two decades of war and isolation under sanctions that had brought Iraq and its people to ...

During Gulf War II, coalition forces made a stunning discovery in the Iraqi desert: dozens of fighter jets buried beneath ...

Following the collapse of Saddam Hussein's regime on April 9, 2003, many hoped that the status of women in Iraqi society would have improved more than it has over the past 20 years.. However, Iraq ...

Saddam Hussein's trial was meant to be a symbol of a new democratic Iraq The trial was supposed to serve as a model of justice in the aftermath of the U.S. invasion of Iraq 20 years ago this week.

In an address delivered from the Oval Office on the evening of March 19, 2003 — 20 years ago today — President George W. Bush announced that the United States and its allies had embarked on a ...

In this picture taken on April 6, 2023, a sticker showing the image of Iraq's late ousted dictator Saddam Hussein is displayed at a bus stop in Amman.

Saddam issued orders for the yacht, which he never boarded, to leave its mooring at Umm Qasr to Basra for safekeeping a few weeks after the invasion got underway on March 20, 2003.

The 'Al Mansur,' Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's private yacht, lies at the dockside in central Basra April 10, 2003. STR New/Reuters 20 years later, any sign of wealth or glamour is gone.

Saddam Hussein, the Iraqi president ... At 20, he joined the then ... Saddam rose to power in 1968 as the enforcer behind a bloody coup and took full control of the government in 1979.