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Saddam Hussein (28 April 1937 – 30 December 2006) was an Iraqi politician and revolutionary who served as the president of Iraq from 1979 until he was ...
3 days ago — Saddam Hussein (born April 28, 1937, Al-ʿAwjah, Iraq—died December 30, 2006, Baghdad) was the president of Iraq (1979–2003) whose brutal rule ...
It was Dec. 13, 2003, at approximately 8:30 pm local time in Iraq that Saddam was found, huddled in a spider hole near a farmhouse in Ad Dawr, close to his ...
Saddam Hussein led Iraq from 1979 to 2003. During his rule he projected an image of himself as Iraq's most influential leader and a courageous moderniser.
Apr 14, 2021 — Saddam Hussein was president of Iraq for more than two decades and is seen as a figurehead of the country's military conflicts with Iran and the United States.
Former Iraq President Saddam Hussein had been in hiding for almost a year until US forces captured him outside the city of Tikrit in a military operation known ...
Saddam Hussein was a prominent Iraqi political leader who served as the President of Iraq from 1979 until his removal in 2003. Born in Al-Awja near Tikrit, ...
Saddam Hussein, the former president of Iraq, was executed on 30 December 2006. Saddam was sentenced to death by hanging, after being convicted of crimes ...Read more
On December 30, 2006, Iraqis awoke to news that Saddam Hussein had been hanged; victims of his three decades of autocratic rule took to the ...
On December 30, 2006, Iraqis awoke to news that Saddam Hussein had been hanged; victims of his three decades of autocratic rule took to the ...
Dec 30, 2006 — The hanging of Saddam Hussein ended the life of one of the most brutal tyrants in recent history, who oppressed Iraq for more than 30 years.
A man of immense and grandiose ambitions and profound and foolish mistakes, Saddam Hussein was the pre-eminent strongman in Iraq for three decades.
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 ...
On this day in 1979, Saddam Hussein came to power in Iraq. Here, read two-time Pulitzer winner Anthony Shadid's telling of how the regime fell 24 years later.
Saddam Hussein was the President of Iraq from 1979 to 2003. Hussein was a brutal dictator who repressed the Shia and Kurdish people of his country and invaded ...
Saddam Hussein, the dictator who ruled Iraq until his regime was overthrown in the U.S.-led 2003 invasion, was executed in Baghdad by hanging on December 30 ...
Jul 4, 2025 — He's a madman danger to the world. He's a revolutionary leader. He's a savior of his people. Just who is Saddam Hussein?
Mar 22, 2023 — Saddam Hussein, the former dictator of Iraq, was a true leader who stood up to Western imperialism, the Israeli occupation of Palestine and foreign ...
Oct 17, 2013 — November 5, 2006 - Hussein is convicted and sentenced to death by hanging for the Dujail massacre. Per Iraqi law there is an automatic appeal to ...
Aug 9, 2007 — Major news outlets faced an ultimate ethical dilemma -- whether to televise an execution -- when what appeared to be cell phone video ...