A towering statue of Saddam Hussein was today pulled to the ground in a symbolic act against the dictator's oppressive regime. Working together in the heart of Baghdad, US marines helped crowds of ...

A crowd of Iraqi civilians have vented their anger at decades of oppression by toppling a giant statue of Saddam Hussein. Just hours after US Marines swept into the eastern area of central Baghdad ...

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The Iraqi man who was filmed attacking Saddam Hussein's statue with a sledgehammer when U.S. troops stormed into Baghdad in 2003 said Iraq was in a better shape under his rule ...

A week ago the Islamist rebels toppled a statue of Bashar al-Assad's late brother in a chilling allusion to the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime. Syria is reeling from a seismic shift in power ...

THIS is the moment Syrian Islamist rebels toppled a statue of Bashar al-Assad's late brother in a chilling allusion to the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime. Separate footage showed militants ...

The images recalled footage from Iraq in 2003, when a US armoured vehicle toppled a statue of former dictator Saddam Hussein with the help of a crowd of jubilant Iraqis on the day Baghdad fell to ...

They were moving towards what was then known as Firdos Square, in the middle of which was an enormous statue of Iraq's President, Saddam Hussein, his right arm stretched into the sky, waving to ...

BEIRUT — The images of Bashar al-Assad's fall bear some resemblance to the iconic scenes of Saddam Hussein's collapse more than 20 years ago. The toppling of statues of Assad, his father ...

The images recall footage from 2003 when a US armoured vehicle toppled a statue of former dictator Saddam Hussein with the help of a crowd of jubilant Iraqis, on the day Baghdad fell to a United ...