Time was when throwing your political opponents into prison on trumped-up charges was the deplorable domain of despots over whom we claimed moral superiority: Saddam Hussein or the Iranian mullahs, ...

In September, a rig used to drill wells in shallow waters completed the long trip from China to Venezuela's oil-producing ...

Awsat, former Jordanian prime minister and intelligence chief Ahmad Obeidat recounts details of a missile plot to assassinate ...

Former Jordanian Prime Minister Ahmad Obeidat, who died earlier this month, was both a key player and a witness to sensitive ...

Veterans have shared their stories ahead of the 15th anniversary of the withdrawal of the last remaining British forces from ...

The US military said that it had struck more than 30 Islamic State group targets in Syria over the last two weeks as a response to an attack on US troops last year which killed two US soldiers and one ...

The U.S. military has completed the transfer of thousands of Islamic State group detainees from Syria to Iraq.

Project Babylon was Gerald Bull’s outrageous attempt to build a supergun that could fire payloads toward space - and Saddam Hussein’s attempt to turn that dream into something far darker. In this ...

We will sacrifice our souls for you!” yells out a class of kids in The President’s Cake, nominally addressing a leader hundreds of miles away – the Iraqi despot, Saddam Hussein. The slogan the ...

Monday that a high-level security officer under Saddam Hussein has been executed for his involvement in the 1980 killing of prominent Shiite cleric Mohammed Baqir al-Sadr and other grave crimes.

Iraq has executed Saadoun Sabri al-Qaisi, a former high-ranking officer under Saddam Hussein's rule, for crimes against humanity related to the 1980 killing of Shiite cleric Mohammed Baqir al-Sadr and ...

Iraq executes former Major General Saadoun Sabri al-Qaisi for his role in the 1980 killing of Shiite cleric Mohammed Baqir al-Sadr.