For Iraqis who lived through the 1990s, dictator Saddam Hussein's birthday on April 28 was a disorientating day of celebration and propaganda. Parties were staged across the sanctions-hit country to ...

This is a substantial and promising debut that could propel Hasan to either homegrown or international importance.

Warm, funny and heartbreaking, The President’s Cake tells the story of a brutal ruler and a girl forced to make him a present in a time of sanctions-induced hardship. Its Iraqi director Hasan Hadi rem ...

Shot in Iraq, this period piece depicts a young girl’s efforts to prepare for a celebration of Saddam Hussein’s birthday.

Set in early ’90s Iraq during Saddam Hussein’s rule, “The President’s Cake” reveals not only corruption but also kindness and fortitude.

It was one of the largest manhunts in history. Having been ousted from power following the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq, Saddam Hussein, the country’s once all-powerful and ruthless leader, went into ...

B A G H D A D, Iraq, July 1, 2004 -- Defiant, belligerent and a little anxious, former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein appeared before a single Iraqi judge in a courtroom near Baghdad today to hear ...

Now that the handover of sovereignty in Iraq has happened, Saddam Hussein will face justice. Organized under the Coalition Provisional Authority, the Iraqi Special Tribunal for Crimes Against Humanity ...

Nov. 5, 2006 — -- Saddam Hussein and two co-defendants have been found guilty of murder and crimes against humanity, and sentenced to death by hanging over the 1982 killings of 148 people in the ...

David Seidler and 'Hiding Saddam Hussein' director Halkawt Mustafa have written a script based on the relationship between Hussein and Alaa Namiq, the Iraqi farmer who hid the dictator in a hole after ...

Saddam Hussein may have lost his life today. But he really died on Dec. 13, 2003. That was the day he was found by U.S. forces, hiding in a hole on a relative’s farm outside his hometown of Tikrit. No ...

The granddaughter of late Iraqi president Saddam Hussein resurfaced after years in exile at a luxe Cartier event in Dubai, RadarOnline.com has learned. Hareer Hussein Kamel showed off the glitzy event ...