Saddam Hussein still revered as a hero
- 08-Apr-2023
Twenty years after the fall of his regime, the late Iraqi president Saddam Hussein remains admired and popular in Jordan where his image can still be seen across the country. The instantly recognisable face peers out from everything from bumper stickers to mobile phone cases in neighbouring Jordan, despite symbols and images associated with his […]
Former President George H.W. Bush dead at 94
- 01-Dec-2018
Former U.S. President George H.W. Bush, who presided over the end of the Cold War and routed Saddam Hussein’s Iraqi army but lost a chance for a second term after breaking a no-new-taxes pledge, died on Friday at the age of 94, a family spokesman said. Bush, the 41st president of the United States, lived […]
Years after his hanging, Saddam Hussein mystery lives on
- 17-Apr-2018
AL-AWJAH, IRAQ: In his native village of Al-Awjah, the mausoleum of Iraq’s executed dictator Saddam Hussein has been reduced to broken concrete and tangled barbed wire, showing no trace of his remains. The man who ruled Iraq with an iron fist for a quarter of a century was hanged at dawn on December 30, 2006, […]
Apple refuses to refund customer until he proves he's not Saddam Hussein
- 30-Oct-2016
LONDON: A British man, with a surname Hussain, braved an extremely shocking response from Apple customer operator when he tried to return his iPhone. Sharakat Hussain, 26, was dismayed upon receiving an email from the California-based technology giant claiming that he was on the government’s Denied Parties list, which made it illegal for him to […]
Iraq's marshes, once drained by Saddam, named world heritage site
- 18-Jul-2016
BAGHDAD: A wetland in southeast Iraq, thought to be the biblical Garden of Eden and almost completely drained during Saddam Hussein's rule, has become a UNESCO world heritage site, Iraqi authorities said on Sunday.
IS fights back as Iraqi army enters into Falluja
- 31-May-2016
CAMP TARIQ, IRAQ: Islamic State militants fought back vigorously overnight and parried an onslaught by the Iraqi army on a southern district of the city of Falluja, the group's bastion near Baghdad, officers said on Tuesday.
'Staggering' death toll for Iraqi civilians since 2014: UN
- 19-Jan-2016
GENEVA: The number of civilians killed in violence in Iraq over the past two years is "staggering", the United Nations said Tuesday, with a death toll of at least 18,802 people and another 36,245 injured.
World would be better place if Saddam, Kadhafi still in power: Trump
- 25-Oct-2015
WASHINGTON: The world would be a better place if dictators such as Saddam Hussein and Moamer Kadhafi were still in power, top Republican US presidential hopeful Donald Trump said in comments aired Sunday.
Tony Blair says sorry for ‘Iraq war mistakes’
- 25-Oct-2015
Former British prime minister Tony Blair has said he was sorry that the intelligence behind the decision to attack Saddam Hussein’s regime in 2003 was wrong, and admitted there had been mistakes in the planning of the operation.
IS master plan made by officer under Saddam Hussein
- 20-Apr-2015
BERLIN: An ex-intelligence officer under the late Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein was "the strategic head" behind the Islamic State group and drew up the blueprints for the jihadists' capture of northern Syria, German weekly Der Spiegel reported Sunday.