The United States is considering issuing a set of playing cards to help identify 100 most wanted figures of the Syrian regime, the London-based Asharq al-Awsat reported Monday, quoting sources ...

They were also used in 2003 to show Saddam Hussein’s members during the Iraq war. Based on that idea, the department said the cold case cards started in the early 2000s when cards were ...

The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the CIA, and the Origins of America’s Invasion of Iraq, Steve Coll, Penguin Press, 576 pages Saddam Hussein was the first person I saw die on television.

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 in history, but he made the fatal ...

"Bush developed a sense that there was unfinished business from the first Persian Gulf War in the early 1990s, that leaving Saddam in power had been a mistake,” recalled journalist Barton Gellman.