And the views of the Tigris? Spectacular. After bombing Saddam Hussein's New Presidential Palace today, the US Army swept in and took an inventory. Soldiers searched the vast complex by the river ...

Some suggest the gardens formed a part of the royal palace in Babylon itself ... but from the 1980s, when Saddam Hussein—then dictator of Iraq—set out to create a reconstruction of its ...

The ancient Mesopotamian city of Babylon has been declared a Unesco ... in recent years - first from the construction of a palace for Saddam Hussein, and later from being used as a base for ...

UN weapons inspectors on Tuesday made their first visit to one of Saddam Hussein's presidential palaces. After seven minutes of discussion, the huge gates were opened at the west Baghdad ...

He drew comparisons between the opulence of this structure and palaces built by Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein and those built closer to home, those by Gali Janardhan Reddy. He argued that this so ...

A golden assault rifle from one of Saddam Hussein's palaces is going on display for the first time. The AK-47 is thought to have been gifted to someone by the Iraqi dictator. The weapon is part of ...