Saddam Hussein, the deposed Iraqi president, was captured by U.S. troops in a small underground hideout southeast of his ...

Slender shoulders, a limp handshake and soft-spoken lisp. Those were the most vivid memories from my meeting with Bashar al ...

Greg Ganske, Jim Leach's Republican Iowa colleague in Congress in 2002, reflects on their diverging votes on the Iraq war resolution.

On Dec. 13, 2003, Saddam Hussein was captured by U.S. forces while hiding in a hole under a farmhouse in Adwar, Iraq, near ...

Iraqi President Saddam Hussein has challenged President George W. Bush to a live, international television debate about the Iraq crisis, US station CBS News has reported. The Iraqi leader also ...

A statue of former President Hafez al-Assad, the father of Syria's current ruler Bashar, was toppled in Hama after ...

The ouster of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has prompted concerns and warnings over whether the war-torn country can avoid ...

Assad, after rebel forces swept into Damascus this weekend, shattered Iran's network of influence in the Middle East but ...

He cited the civil wars that followed the toppling of Iraqi president Saddam Hussein in 2003 and Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi in 2011. One senior Western diplomat in the region, who spoke on ...

Tens of thousands of people held in Syria's notorious prisons have been freed in the 10 days since the insurgents began their ...