BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The Iraqi man who was filmed attacking Saddam Hussein's statue with a sledgehammer when U.S. troops stormed into Baghdad in 2003 said Iraq was in a better shape under his rule ...

A crowd of Iraqi civilians have vented their anger at decades of oppression by toppling a giant statue of Saddam Hussein. Just hours after US Marines swept into the eastern area of central Baghdad ...

BEIRUT — The images of Bashar al-Assad's fall bear some resemblance to the iconic scenes of Saddam Hussein's collapse more than 20 years ago. The toppling of statues of Assad, his father ...

They were moving towards what was then known as Firdos Square, in the middle of which was an enormous statue of Iraq's President, Saddam Hussein, his right arm stretched into the sky, waving to ...

The images recalled footage from Iraq in 2003, when a US armoured vehicle toppled a statue of former dictator Saddam Hussein with the help of a crowd of jubilant Iraqis on the day Baghdad fell to ...