Saddam Hussein

Erin Ogunkeye is pleased to welcome Bamo Nouri, investigative journalist and also Honorary Research Fellow with the Department of International Politics at City Saint George's University of London

Iraq has declared today to be Sovereignty Day, the start of a four-day holiday to celebrate the withdrawal this week of the last United States forces from its territory 23 years after the invasion that overthrew Saddam Hussein

US forces formally withdrew from Iraq on Wednesday, ending a two-decade military presence that stoked years of devastating bloodshed and leaves behind a battered nation struggling to unshackle itself from its two most powerful, and now warring, allies

Wednesday will witness the last American troops withdraw from Iraq, officially ending a two-decade-long military presence that began with an invasion in 2003 and resumed again in 2014 when U.S. forces returned to aid Baghdad in its fight against the Islamic State group

On 11 September, 25 years ago, Osama bin Laden drove with a small number of al-Qaida retainers and aides to a remote location in eastern Afghanistan

In April 2024, Israeli soldiers took Saddam, who had just turned 17, from farmland near the Golan Heights, a part of Syria Israel has occupied since 1967

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has revealed what former President Barack Obama said moments after Michelle Obama appeared to take a swipe at President Donald Trump during the opening of the Obama Presidential Center in Chicago

US President Donald Trump met Iraqi Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi at the White House on Tuesday, with both leaders promising stronger economic cooperation and closer energy ties

The IRGC will likely resist any invasion of Iranian territory with tenacity

That very scenario is now unfolding, leaving Trump with no exit strategy beyond wishful thinking

A 30-year-old taxi driver was shot dead over a dispute related to a land payment near the Sai River in Chaukhda village under Dileeppur police station in Pratapgarh district on March 9

Within hours of the United States-Israeli attacks on Iran, US assets in Iraq’s Kurdistan region came under retaliatory attacks from Tehran-backed groups, dragging the country into the conflict that has since expanded across the Middle East and beyond

While many global leaders have concerns about America’s reliability in light of President Donald Trump’s transactional foreign policy approach and penchant for unilateralism, the Kurds have history with the United States that makes them especially wary

Speaking to Sky News' Sunday Morning with Trevor Phillips, Yvette Cooper hit back at reported comments made by Sir Tony Blair

The plan seems to envision these groups acting as ground forces operating inside Iran’s Kurdish region, known among Kurds as Rojhelat

Fighting between Israel and Iran spilled deeper into the Gulf after a projectile struck a commercial vessel near the Port of Fujairah, a key global refuelling hub

Israel Strikes Regime Command Centers in Tehran

A group of 74 retired U.S. generals and admirals recently voiced strong support for the joint U.S.-Israel military operation targeting Iran, calling it a necessary response to decades of threats from the Islamic Republic against the United States, its allies and regional stability

Predictably, Iran’s response started shortly after: first against Israel, then against states across the Gulf region, including the United Arab Emirates

Israel launches new assault on Hezbollah and Iran

President Trump has become increasingly willing to assert American power overseas, a decade after propelling himself to the highest office by promising to focus on “America first.”

Explosions rock Abu Dhabi as Iranian missiles trigger emergency alerts, one person is killed by falling shrapnel, and Dubai’s iconic Fairmont The Palm suffers blast damage with multiple injuries reported

Iran fired ballistic missiles at multiple Gulf Arab states on Saturday, February 28, 2026, in retaliation for joint U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iranian leadership and military sites, killing one person in Abu Dhabi and prompting widespread air defense activations, airspace closures and emergency alerts across the region

Israelis rushed into bomb shelters as Iranian projectiles started fires and caused scattered damage in several areas of the country

In October 2002, George W Bush laid out his case for taking the US to war against Iraq in a half-hour speech televised around the world

The President’s Cake arrives as both a rapturously received debut feature and a quiet corrective to Iraqi history’s frequent on-screen pulverisation

The agency did not say when al-Qaisi was executed

The bloc, which holds a majority in parliament, picked Maliki, Iraq's first elected prime minister after a U.S.-led invasion toppled Saddam Hussein in 2003, as its nominee for the post following an election

Trump Warns Iraq Against Reinstalling Nouri al-Maliki as Prime Minister

The Iran-backed group’s chief, Abu Hussein al‑Hamidawi, issued a fiery statement late on Sunday, calling on fighters to be prepared for war

Two weeks ago, incumbent Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani announced his withdrawal from the premiership race

People in Nadhim Zahawi's former constituency have given mixed views to the BBC about his decision to jump ship to Reform UK

But the 19th-century foreign policy first established by President James Monroe remains as relevant today as it was 200 years ago

At the White House, President Donald Trump vows American intervention in Venezuela will pour billions of dollars into the country’s infrastructure, revive its once-thriving oil industry and eventually deliver a new age of prosperity to the Latin American nation

Americans would be forgiven if the president’s comment flew under their radar (much like the U.S. military that night in Caracas)

President Donald Trump has adopted an interventionist posture to justify toppling dictator Nicolás Maduro’s regime in Venezuela — and has signaled he’ll take the same approach with other Latin American countries next as his administration seeks to assert dominance in the Western Hemisphere