A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On Dec. 13, 2003, Saddam Hussein was captured by U.S. forces while hiding in a hole under a farmhouse in Adwar, Iraq, ...

Associated Press WriterDUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) -- Saddam Hussein sought to rally the Arab world against U.S. plans to topple him, saying in a rare interview published Tuesday that any ...

FILE - Boys sit next to a mural of Shiite clerics Mohammad Baqir al-Sadr, left, and Mohammad Sadiq al-Sadr, right, in Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, April 6, 2013, painted over a portrait of former dictator ...

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Iraqi authorities stepped up defensive preparations in and around Baghdad on Sunday, as Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein warned that if Iraq is attacked it will take the war anywhere in ...

Dec. 3, 2002 -- -- Leaders in Grenada, Guatemala and Chile seemed potentially too cozy with the communists. Better dead than red, America seemed to say. Panama's dictator had drug ties. The "Just say ...

In early 2003, some weeks before the start of the Iraq war, I had a conversation about nonviolent protest with my friend Na’il, in Baghdad. Although he was assigned by Saddam Hussein’s information ...

84-year-old Latif al Ani was Iraq's most famous documentary photographer during the country's cosmopolitan 60s. But as Saddam Hussein rose to power, he was driven into retirement. Scroll through to ...

CAIRO (AP) – The highest-ranking member of Saddam Hussein’s ousted regime purportedly said the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Baghdad has ultimately served to make Iraq beholden to Iran. In an online ...

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- He sits alone in a cell, writing poetry, reading and preparing for appearances before a court that could sentence him to hang. But Saddam Hussein is very much a player in Thursday's ...

Article link: https://www.foreignaffairs.com/responses/saddam-and-rise-isishttps://www.foreignaffairs.com/responses/saddam-and-rise-isis Helfont and Brill then wrote ...

BAGHDAD — Iraq's National Security Agency said Friday it arrested a former high-level security official for his involvement in the 1980 execution of a prominent Shiite cleric and his sister during ...