The 12-metre statue of Saddam was pulled down by ... it will not restore our Iraq and the people who are gone," he said. "The war came and then the sectarian violence ... and Daesh," he added ...
A crowd of Iraqi civilians have vented their anger at decades of oppression by toppling a giant statue of Saddam Hussein. Just hours after US Marines swept into the eastern area of central Baghdad ...
Maude’s statue, in Baghdad, was burned. Thus, Iraq ... fill of it,” he said. Saddam was confident, certain. Don’t worry, he said, there’s not going to be a war. He was wrong.
The war on Iraq was a violation of international law ... And that staged toppling of the Saddam statue in that near-empty Baghdad square. Pure Hollywood. Looks to me as though the locals are in fact ...
Speaking on the anniversary of the end of the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq war, Saddam also called on the United Nations Security Council to answer a series of questions recently posed by Baghdad.
The recent release of Sir John Chilcot’s inquiry into the origins of the Iraq War has predictably inspired ... Since the American-led invasion toppled Saddam Hussein in 2003, a series of ...
Believe it or not, you can simultaneously believe a number of things about the Iraq war and its aftermath. You can believe Saddam Hussein wasn’t merely a “bad guy,” but that he harbored ...
The toppling of statues of ... This came in Iraq via a large-scale U.S. invasion that toppled Saddam after years of crippling economic sanctions following the Gulf War. In Syria, the struggle ...