The Hunt for the Assad Dynasty’s Missing Billions Begins
The family stashed away its wealth over half a century of despotic rule. Human-rights lawyers are leading efforts to find the ...
Opinion
How Jim Leach got it right on his most important vote, on Iraq | Opinion
Greg Ganske, Jim Leach's Republican Iowa colleague in Congress in 2002, reflects on their diverging votes on the Iraq war resolution.
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Delhi Court frames charges under MCOCA against Kingpin Salman Tyagi, 14 aides for running organised crime syndicate
A Delhi Court has recently framed charges under the Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) against Kingpin Salman ...
Deseret News archives: Saddam Hussein captured in Iraq in 2003 in inglorious fashion
On Dec. 13, 2003, Saddam Hussein was captured by U.S. forces while hiding in a hole under a farmhouse in Adwar, Iraq, near ...
On This Day, Dec. 13: U.S. troops capture Saddam Hussein
Saddam Hussein, the deposed Iraqi president, was captured by U.S. troops in a small underground hideout southeast of his ...
Assad exhibited little of the tackiness of Iraq’s Saddam. But his rule was just as brutal
Slender shoulders, a limp handshake and soft-spoken lisp. Those were the most vivid memories from my meeting with Bashar al ...
Opinion
Powerful minus power
Moscow’s welcome to ex-Syrian despot is part of an old story of political elites looking after each other  Assad has found asylum in Russia, escaping the bloody fates of Saddam and Gaddafi. Expect ...
Assad’s iTunes playlist (and other things dictators got up to in ‘retirement’)
Metro takes a look at the demise of some of the world's most revered dictators and what they got up to after they were ...