Hopefulness and enthusiasm described the mood in Dunkirk when Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced plans to re-open the shuttered NRG plant on the shore of Lake Erie, by converting it from a coal fired ...
TIKRIT, Iraq, June 10 (Reuters) - The head of Saddam Hussein's tribe was blown up in a car bomb explosion in the town of Awja north of Baghdad on Tuesday, police said. A bomb appeared to have been ...
Dec. 13 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1642, Dutch navigator Abel Tasman discovered New Zealand. In 1816, the United States' first savings bank, the Provident Institution for Savings, opened in ...
Dec. 3, 2003 — -- Some $132 million of money that Saddam Hussein withdrew from the Iraqi Central Bank is believed to be funding the Iraqi insurgency against U.S. troops, U.S. officials told ...
In the pantheon of bloodthirsty dictators, Iraqi strongman Saddam Hussein has almost been relegated to the dustbin of history. He’s remembered as part of the now-quaint-seeming “axis of evil,” for ...
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Forgotten Brutality of Iran-Iraq War

On January 17, 1991, the Gulf War opened with the largest and most advanced air armada the world had ever seen, striking Saddam Hussein’s forces after his invasion of Kuwait. Yet this conflict was not ...
(Adds quotes, colour) By Nadheer al-Samarrai AWJA, Iraq, June 10 (Reuters) - The head of Saddam Hussein's tribe was killed by a bomb planted on his vehicle north of Baghdad on Tuesday, police said.