All news on the topic: Saddam Hussein

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Iraq’s dollar auction: the ‘monster’ channeling billions to fraudsters and militants via the U.S. Federal Reserve
A system set up to channel dollars from Iraqi oil sales to importers has been exploited by money launderers and militant groups for years. An OCCRP investigation shows how the fraud works in practice.
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Weirdest items missing from UK museums - from fake moustache to cannonball
A document shows all the 1,700 items missing from British museums' collections, including a fake moustache missing from the V&A and prehistoric bones from the Natural History Museum
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Inside Saddam Hussein's dirt-ridden underground lair where he hid before capture
Saddam Hussein lived a life of luxury as millions of Iraqis faced horrors - but the dictator was captured in morbid squalor as The Mirror's Chris Hughes recalls the 'rank' conditions 20 years on
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Tony Blair leads tributes as former Labour MP Ann Clwyd dies aged 86
Keir Starmer said: "A long standing Chair of the Parliamentary Labour Party, Ann was a leading figure in the Labour Party, dedicating her life to our movement."
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'We'll never forget dozens of unarmed students who were shot by US forces'
The Mirror has returned to the scene of the bloodshed after negotiating via contacts for safe passage
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Putin terrified of being overthrown and killed like despots Gaddafi and Hussein
As the Wagner Group nearly attempted a coup against Vladimir Putin at the weekend, Mirror Defence Editor Chris Hughes looks at the warlord's fears of meeting a violent end
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FBI interrogator says Saddam Hussein knew two things about him within seconds
George Piro was the FBI agent hand selected to interrogate Saddam Hussein and spent seven months talking to the Iraqi dictator following the west's bloody invasion of the Middle East
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'Tony Blair still thinks the Iraq War had to happen, but it delivered terror'
On the anniversary of the Iraq invasion there's much Tony Blair can and will be blamed for, says Fleet Street Fox. But if he'd said no, could he have stopped it?
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'I was there in Iraq 20 years ago - the invasion left behind violence and chaos'
The Mirror's Chris Hughes covered the invasion of Iraq, launched under claims that Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction, which were later proved to be false
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'Tony Blair's invasion of Iraq is a warning to Keir Starmer on defence spending'
The Labour leader must bear his predecessors in mind over the Labour Party's policy on defence, an area has historically been a sticky issue for the Labour Party
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'My son's last words were "don't worry mum, I'll be back" - but he never was'
Ben Hyde was among six Redcap military policemen killed at a police station near Basra. At the time it was the British forces’ biggest single loss of life since the Falklands
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Inside Abu Ghraib prison where US tortured Iraqi detainees in horror war crimes
WARNING DISTRESSING CONTENT: On March 20, 2004, the US and UK Coalition invaded Iraq on the false belief that dictator Saddam Hussein was manufacturing weapons of mass destruction and planned to use them on his own people
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US Navy Seal team's message for Saddam Hussein after being captured in Iraq
The details emerged as retired US Army Master Sergeant Kevin Holland, part of the team that tracked down the fugitive, spoke for the first time about the arrest on December 13, 2003