As darkness fell over the Arabian Peninsula on January 29, 1991, the ground trembled with the onset of Iraq's most ruthless offensive of the Persian Gulf War. High above, aboard a modified Boeing 707 ...

A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On Dec. 13, 2003, Saddam Hussein was captured by U.S. forces while hiding in a hole under a farmhouse in Adwar, Iraq, ...

MOSUL, Iraq -- Saddam Hussein's sons Odai and Qusai died in a blaze of gunfire and rockets Tuesday when U.S. forces, acting on a tip from an Iraqi informant, stormed a palatial villa in northern Iraq.

The Iraqi army has undertaken a major offensive to dislodge ISIS forces from Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit. It seems to be working. According to witnesses and officials, Iraqi government forces ...

Two years after he explored how former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein evaded capture following his ousting from power in the ...

B A G H D A D, Iraq, July 1, 2004 -- Defiant, belligerent and a little anxious, former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein appeared before a single Iraqi judge in a courtroom near Baghdad today to hear ...

Jan. 6 -- Despite rumors that Iraqi President Saddam Hussein was suffering from health problems, he appeared on television today to mark Army Day, praising his own troops and Palestinians, for their ...

Israel, with the assistance of U.S. military hardware, bombs an adversary’s nuclear facility to set back the perceived pursuit of the ultimate weapon. We have been here before, about 44 years ago. In ...

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq's Sunni Arab parliament speaker called on Tuesday for members of the Iraqi military under former leader Saddam Hussein to be respected for their sacrifices and have their ...

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said on Saturday Iraqi army officers of all ranks sacked after the U.S. invasion in 2003 would be allowed to reapply for their posts in the new ...