The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the CIA, and the Origins of America’s Invasion of Iraq, Steve Coll, Penguin Press, 576 pages Saddam Hussein was the first person I saw die on television.

Casey, a close friend of then-President Ronald Reagan ... was deploying chemical weapons against Iran and still provided Saddam Hussein with intelligence assistance. The CIA documents released ...

Learn how Saddam Hussein ruled Iraq with an iron fist for almost 30 years. To maintain power, he used fear, intimidation and violence like few other dictators in history, but he made the fatal ...

James Davis, the former FBI agent who led the team that processed Saddam Hussein after his capture in Iraq and later ... My heart goes out to his family and friends across the state and around the ...

Ordered by megalomaniacal Saddam Hussein, Iraqi air force planes dropped ... The US needs the Kurds, but, at the same time, is not their consistent friend. When the battle against ISIS was being ...

"Bush developed a sense that there was unfinished business from the first Persian Gulf War in the early 1990s, that leaving Saddam in power had been a mistake,” recalled journalist Barton Gellman.