Saddam Hussein's engineers and soldiers turned it into a desert after the Persian Gulf war of 1991, but during the past three years—thanks to a dismantling of dikes and dams built on Saddam's ...

“Sir, I have a plan for how to catch Saddam Hussein,” the musician recalled telling a Navy admiral onboard an aircraft carrier in the Persian Gulf. According to Hoppus, Hussein had been sending video ...

When former Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone visited Iraq during the Persian Gulf crisis in 1990, he spoke frankly with Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, urging him to pull out of Kuwait within a ...