The government tried to sell an exhaustive list of equipment from Hawk fighter jets to military air and naval bases, says the 1981 archive

Iraq’s fate is in the hands of the ruling Shia who have shown little appetite for dismantling centralised control, writes Jack Fairweather

The former Iraqi dictator, Saddam Hussein, personally ordered the swift execution of Farzad Bazoft, an Iranian-born freelance journalist working for The Observer in early 1990, shortly before the first Gulf War, even as the Government of Margaret Thatcher was scrambling to win him clemency, new recordings have revealed.

Remember Iraq? Prior to US withdrawal, there's a rounding up of the usual suspects: Iraq has arrested at least 240 former members of Saddam Hussein's banned Baath Party and ex-military officers over what some senior officials described as a plot...

The killing of Muammar Gadaffi in Sirte has been marked by a round of celebration by western governments over their intervention in Libya. As with the capture of Saddam Hussein in Iraq and the killing of Osama bin Laden in Pakistan, it will be described as a turning point and a further victory in the seemingly endless ‘war on terror’. There is

I wouldn't dream of embedding a video from that stupid US show where they do badly faked mockups of imaginary battles between random antagonists like Pol Pot versus Saddam or Lawrence of Arabia versus Teddy Roosevelt. Not even if it...

Uday Hussein's vices and sadism appalled even his father. His unwilling 'body double' witnessed it all.

An inquest ruled that Dr David Kelly, who was found dead after being identified as the defence source who cast doubt over the claim in a government dossier that Saddam Hussein could fire nuclear weapons at 45 minutes' notice, committed suicide. But conspiracy theorists remain unconvinced - here are some of their reasons.

Tony Blair never showed key documents on Iraq to his colleagues and left ministers choosing between his downfall or that of Saddam Hussein, says his former cabinet secretary

TONY Blair urged a "gung-ho" stance to the Iraq War a year before troops actually went in it emerged yesterday as the former prime minister faced a second grilling at