At least 500 elite soldiers from The Parachute Regiment were sent in to Basra to clear out paramilitaries and fedayeen fighters. The presidential palace of Saddam Hussein in Basra fell to ...

And the views of the Tigris? Spectacular. After bombing Saddam Hussein's New Presidential Palace today, the US Army swept in and took an inventory. Soldiers searched the vast complex by the river ...

In 2003, Human Rights Watch researchers traveled to southern Iraq to investigate the March 1999 campaign of Saddam Hussein's ... Ali Hasan Al-Majid and the Basra Massacre of 1999, provides ...

6 Basra’s citizens still cite the memory of this period of political and criminal unrest (and the brutal repression of it by Saddam Hussein’s government) as one of the reasons for their ...

Iran, the region's main Shia power, has fostered ties with Iraq's Shia majority since the downfall of long-term leader Saddam Hussein. Reuters Rioters attacked the Iranian Consulate in Basra on 7 ...

Al-Qaisi held high-ranking positions under Saddam, including director of state security and director of security in the port city of Basra as well as the central city of Najaf. He is accused of ...

He drew comparisons between the opulence of this structure and palaces built by Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein and those built closer to home, those by Gali Janardhan Reddy. He argued that this so ...