Saddam hussein

'Flip the circuit breaker': Obama attacks Trump administration to boost Democrats in Michigan

We have never seen a president excel in straight-up grifting, on your dime, like this," Obama said. "Never seen a president so intent on selling favors like this..." said the former president.

|ByREUTERS
Former President Barack Obama speaks at a “Get Out the Vote" rally in support of Dr. Abdul El-Sayed and Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson on October 24, 2026 in Detroit, Michigan.
Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini (L) who became Iran's first Supreme Leader after the Islamic Revolution and Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, who offered the Shah of Iran to dispose of the cleric

From Saddam Hussein to Israel: How Iran's wars have divided a nation - analysis

After Iran engaged twice in the space of one year against Israel and the United States, the question of how Iranians respond to an external enemy has returned to the fore.

|ByALEX WINSTON
Image Reboot: A female fighter from from the Kurdistan Freedom Party (PAK) trains at a base near Erbil, Iraq, in Feb.

Can Kurdistan follow Israel's lead to become the Middle East's next Start-Up Nation? - analysis

Kurdistan does not need to copy Israel, but it can learn from its journey from a small and politically uncertain environment to a start-up and tech superpower.

|ByYOSSI HURST
Security is stationed outside the US Embassy is seen in Baghdad's fortified "Green Zone" on March 17, 2026.

Iraqi security forces target political ‘corruption’ in Baghdad Green Zone raids

The Green Zone includes Baghdad's parliament building, various government institutions, and embassies, with many politicians also having residences in the area.

|BySETH J. FRANTZMAN

The Israeli Air Force ace who almost didn’t make it

He was the soldier who at first failed to qualify to be a pilot in the IAF, but who ended his 30-year career in the IAF as one of the top aces.

MAY 12, 2018ByANNA AHRONHEIM
Amir Nachumi: ‘Becoming a pilot was an aspiration for many of us back then. The whole atmosphere in those days was to serve the country.’

The pen and the sword

The age of the dictator has not passed, alas, and demagogues are having their day.

APRIL 5, 2018ByMATTHEW PRICE
A COPY of the book ‘Hitler, Mein Kampf. A Critical Edition’ lies on a display table in a bookshop in Munich in 2016

Wanted: A border

Yossi Beilin, architect of the Oslo Accords, offers a peace alternative.

FEBRUARY 5, 2018ByGOL KALEV
Yossi Beilin

Peace with Iran Maybe?

NOVEMBER 30, 2017ByHUSSEIN NOURI
The Jerusalem Post

The Curse of Saddam on Palestinians

NOVEMBER 28, 2017ByHUSSEIN NOURI
The Jerusalem Post

An Admired Enemy

NOVEMBER 25, 2017ByHUSSEIN NOURI
The Jerusalem Post

Advise and assist: The Iraqi army through the eyes of an American advisor

Fourteen years after the first insurgents emerged in Iraq in 2003, the US may have found a model that works in Iraq.

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017BySETH J. FRANTZMAN
A US soldier runs at a coalition forces forward base near West Mosul, Iraq June 21, 2017

If Baghdadi is dead, next ISIS leader likely to be Saddam-era officer

Armed groups fighting in the region and many regional officials are skeptical about the reports of his death.

JUNE 23, 2017ByREUTERS
Al-Baghdadi proclaimed himself 'caliph,' or ruler of all Muslims, from the pulpit of the al-Nuri Mosque on July 4, 2014

PA leader makes 1st Kuwait visit in 20 years

Abbas makes first visit since rift developed when Yasser Arafat was thought to back Hussein in 1st Gulf War.

APRIL 15, 2013ByREUTERS
Abbas in Kuwait370

Iraqi who tried to topple Saddam statue regrets it

10 years later, man famous for trying to bring down statue with sledgehammer regrets that Saddam is gone.

MARCH 11, 2013ByARIEL BEN SOLOMON
US marine watches as statue of Saddam Hussein falls 370