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, ...

The instantly recognisable face peers out from everything from bumper stickers to mobile phone cases in Jordan, despite symbols and images associated with his rule being widely considered taboo in ...

The trial was supposed to serve as a model of justice in the aftermath of the U.S. invasion of Iraq 20 years ago this week. Instead, it became an exercise in revenge. Twenty years ago, many Americans ...

Bursts of celebratory gunfire went up as dawn broke in Baghdad, where news of Saddam Hussein’s execution reached people as they awoke. After the echoes of the shots faded, people went to their ...

I was 10 years old the first time I feared for my life. My family was living in Kuwait as missionaries during the Persian ...

Ah, what a romance it was! From Morocco to Bahrain, many Arabs a decade ago would practically swoon as they described their adoration of the man who defied America during the gulf crisis. Iraqi ...

In late 2002, Saddam Hussein seemed more concerned with writing novels than the prospects of an American invasion of Iraq. Saddam in this pivotal period thought the U.S. knew he had no weapons of mass ...

But in the struggle for power that may ensue between them after Saddam’s departure, anything could happen. From the point of view of Iraq’s abused citizens, its neighbors and other countries, it can ...

The U.N. Security Council voted unanimously Friday to end the U.N. political mission in Iraq established in 2003 following the U.S.-led invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein to coordinate post-conflict ...

84-year-old Latif al Ani was Iraq's most famous documentary photographer during the country's cosmopolitan 60s. But as Saddam Hussein rose to power, he was driven into retirement. Scroll through to ...

Baghdad: Iraq’s National Security Service said it had thwarted a plot by an “opposition cell” linked to Jamal Mustafa, the son-in-law of late president Saddam Hussein, to assassinate its chief. But ...