Sitting in his office in Saddam's former Basra palace, Jepsen recalls his first year—2003—in Iraq wistfully. In those days, he says, he could climb into his four-by-four and venture deep into ...

These are the instruments of the torture once inflicted on prisoners by Basra's security police in ... jail cells and interrogation chambers where Saddam Hussein's Baath Party leaders kept ...

Perhaps to make their point, the British sent 11 Challenger tanks into Basra to crush a statue of Saddam in the city's center. A steady stream of civilians continues to leave the region.

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 ...

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 ...

Coalition forces are on the outskirts of Iraq's second largest city Basra. The development was ... Hoon said: "Any attempt by Saddam Hussein to release oil into the Gulf to create an environmental ...

BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- A British armored vehicle escorted by a tank crashed into a detention center Monday in Basra and rescued ... court convicted one of Saddam Hussein's nephews on charges ...

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 ...