Perkins’ “thunder run” surprised Baghdad’s defenders with its speed and firepower, collapsing the regime from within before Iraqi forces could draw the Americans into a protracted urban war.

Schwartz’s “thunder run” into the city the ... Prisoners of war had told U.S. interrogators that the Iraqi military was ... On the third day, April 9, Saddam Hussein’s regime ...

The 1998 Iraq Liberation Act, calling for America “to support efforts to remove the regime headed by Saddam Hussein,” passed the Senate by unanimous consent and the House by 360-38.

NARRATOR: As the war approached, Saddam Hussein remained defiant. ... He called it a Thunder Run. At dawn on April 5th, American tanks rolled into Baghdad for the first time.

The brutal fight against Saddam Hussein’s Iraq four decades ago shaped Tehran’s approach to the recent war and guides its ...

Hussein, Shlaim writes, never truly recovered from losing East Jerusalem in the 1967 war. But 1967 was also the acid test that proved the resiliency of what Hussein had already achieved.

On this episode of Horns of a Dilemma, Melvyn Leffler talks about his book, Confronting Saddam Hussein: George W. Bush and the Invasion of Iraq.Leffler discusses why he decided to write a book about ...

Iraqi president Saddam Hussein, the subject of a new book called “The Achilles Trap” in his office in 1991. That year he was humiliated in the Gulf War as US-led forces threw his troops out of ...

The early hours of January 17, 1991 in Iraq’s capital became a defining time for CNN and 24-hour breaking news coverage.

On the 20th anniversary of the US-led invasion of Iraq, Peter Bergen reflects on whether – knowing what we now know – toppling Saddam Hussein was worth it. It’s not so black and white, he says.