Saddam Hussein

President Tayyip Erdogan suggested a potential Turkish intervention in Israel, likening it to Turkey's past actions in Libya and Nagorno-Karabakh. He did not specify the nature of the intervention.

From Saddam Hussein to Stalin, why do dictators write novels and poems?

Exploring the motivations behind the literary ambitions of autocratic leaders like Francisco Franco (1892-1975), Benito Mussolini (1883-1945), Joseph Stalin (d. 1953), Saddam Hussein (1937-2006) and Muammar Gaddafi (1942-2011).

Russia-Ukraine War: 20 years since the Iraq War, the steady crisis of civilisation

Rebuilding Ukraine could cost more than $1 trillion, an epic human tragedy. The world has likely forgotten that other catastrophe which began on March 19, exactly two decades ago.

20 years on, a question lingers about Iraq: Why did the US invade?

Was it really, as the George W. Bush administration claimed in the war’s run-up, to neutralize an active Iraqi arsenal of weapons of mass destruction that turned out to not exist?

Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine looks a lot like Saddam Hussein's war on Iran

The parallels between the course of the Russia-Ukraine and Iraq-Iran wars are hard to ignore. And sadly, if the Iraq-Iran precedent is any indication, there is no imperative for a quick peace, either

Obama admin plans new sanctions against Russia: Report

The outgoing Obama administration is planning a series of fresh sanctions against Russia for its alleged role in cyber hacking into servers and emails of American political parties and leaders in the run up to the general elections, multiple media reports have said.

Is new jihad strategy to hold territory, recruit globally?

Despite alleged differences between various fundamentalist groups like ISIS, al-Qaeda or Boko Haram in Nigeria, they are all united on one issue: that the world must be ruled by Islam. Which brand of Islam must prevail will be settled later – equally murderously.

Iraq hosts Arab summit, seeking regional role

Iraq's Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki on Thursday hosted Baghdad's first Arab League summit in two decades, a meeting dominated by Syria's crisis.

Iraqi al Qaeda claims bombs targeting summit security

Al Qaeda's affiliate in Iraq claimed responsibility for dozens of bombings that killed at least 52 people across the country on Tuesday in attacks aimed at undermining tighter security measures ahead of week's Arab League summit in Baghdad.

Sundance films expose secretive lives in Iraq, Iran

A fictional account of the egomaniacal son of Saddam Hussein and a film about two Iranian teenage girls experimenting with sexuality are among the many foreign films winning over audiences at Sundance.