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Saddam Hussein was the leader of Iraq from 1979 to April 2003.In 1990, he went to warwith Kuwait, one of Iraq’s neighbors. Iraq’s army killed many Kurds (库尔得人) living there. The US and other countries went to war with Iraq in 1991 to get the Iraq army out of Kuwait. The ...
This research note introduces a major archival resource for scholars and analysts interested in the security, foreign and domestic policies of pre-2003 Iraq. Recently released captured records from Saddam Hussein's Iraq are now housed at the Conflict Records Research Center (CRRC), located at the ...
Hussein’s belligerence toward neighboring countries, particularly the protracted war with Iran and the invasion of Kuwait, had deleterious consequences for Iraq—both in terms of human life and economic stability.The Complex Relationship with the U.S....
Hussein’s belligerence toward neighboring countries, particularly the protracted war with Iran and the invasion of Kuwait, had deleterious consequences for Iraq—both in terms of human life and economic stability.The Complex Relationship with the U.S....
Who captured Saddam Hussein? Who killed Saddam Hussein? Who was the leader of Iraq during the Gulf War? Who was president when the Iraq War started? Who was involved in the Iraq War? Who caused the Iraq War? Who was president when the Iraqi Civil War started?
The truth of this claim is dubious: The New York Times notes that the State Department listed Iraq as a state sponsor of terrorism before the country was invaded in 2003. Hussein was known for killing his own people, gassing the Kurds and also waging war with Iran with support ...
Though his title was president of Iraq, Saddam Hussein was a dictator who held total power over the country and government. He is often remembered in the same sentence as brutal 20th-century dictators like Hitler, Stalin, and Mao due to his tyranny, megalomania, and extreme brutality....
BAGHDAD --Tariq Aziz, the debonair Iraqi diplomat who made his name by staunchly defending Saddam Hussein to the world during three wars and was later sentenced to death as part of the regime that killed hundreds of thousands of its own people, has died in a hospital in southern Iraq, offi...
The Slippery Business of Oil: A Decade after the US Invasion That Toppled Saddam Hussein, Iraq Is in the Grip of a New Conflict, This Time between Power-Hungry Prime Minister Nouri Al Maliki and the Rebellious Kurds over Their New-Found Energy Riches...