Saddam Hussein

As tensions rise in the region The Week explores why Saddam Hussein's Iraqi forces invaded Kuwait nearly 30 years ago

Dictator kept prisoners in basement of the Iraqi mission to the United Nations, claim officials

Get a grip, Dave - this is not what Churchill meant when he said 'We shall fight them on the beaches'

One of Iraq's oldest and most persecuted religious minorities, the Yazidi faces yet another genocide

Attack on Damascus could represent most significant use of chemical weapons since Saddam attacks Iraqi Kurds