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 towering statue of Saddam Hussein was today pulled to the ground in a symbolic act against the dictator's oppressive regime. Working together in the heart of Baghdad, US marines helped crowds of ...

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 ...

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 ...