Iraq's National Security Agency says it has arrested a former high-level security official for his involvement in the 1980 ...

Learn how Saddam Hussein ruled Iraq with an iron fist for ... Just five days after becoming president in 1979, Saddam sent a powerful message to anyone who would oppose him. At a meeting of ...

Although most of these conflicts happened under the rule of President Saddam Hussein (1979-2003), the brutality did not lessen after his fall from power. In 2003, Saddam Hussein, the deposed ...