Young women pose for selfies outside Saddam's summer palace in Babylon (Tom Westcott/MEE) But this historic gem mostly stands deserted, an excuse, rather than the purpose, for buses of young ...

And the views of the Tigris? Spectacular. After bombing Saddam Hussein's New Presidential Palace today, the US Army swept in and took an inventory. Soldiers searched the vast complex by the river ...

Some suggest the gardens formed a part of the royal palace in Babylon itself ... but from the 1980s, when Saddam Hussein—then dictator of Iraq—set out to create a reconstruction of its ...

(JTA) — Near the start of the Iraq War in 2003, David Goldstrom found himself leading a Yom Kippur service for about 50 soldiers in one of Saddam Hussein’s former palaces in Tikrit, Iraq.

Military action against Iraq would start with US-led bombing raids on President Saddam Hussein's palaces and other symbols of his regime, a British Sunday newspaper said. In a bid to convince ...