Fifteen years ago, Abu Ali was thrilled to see American soldiers enter Baghdad. “The tyrant is finished,” he remembers saying, imagining a bright future for Iraq without Saddam Hussein. But the years ...

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- The world watched the toppling of the Saddam Hussein statue April 9. But few saw the felling of the stately figure of Abdul Muhsin al-Saadoun -- or more than a dozen other landmark ...

Jubilant Iraqis celebrated the collapse of Saddam Hussein's regime by beheading a toppled statue of their longtime ruler in downtown Baghdad and embracing American troops as liberators.

Three years ago, on live television, the world watched Saddam Hussein's statue fall in downtown Baghdad, but a Marine who saw it firsthand believes that image doesn't tell the full story he lived. "It ...