BAGHDAD, Iraq ? In a move that infuriated Saddam Hussein?s government, U.N. arms experts visited a presidential palace compound Wednesday in Baghdad, spending four hours searching two office complexes ...

Heidelberg excavation work in ancient Nineveh. A team from Heidelberg University working in Iraq made a remarkable discovery. In the throne room of the North Palace of King Ashurbanipal, located in ...

BABYLON, Iraq (Reuters) - Revenge and romance define the fate of one of Saddam Hussein's sumptuous palaces, to which Iraqis who suffered under his rule return to vandalise and others flock to ...

Scattered across Iraq lie more than 100 opulent palaces and villas built by former dictator Saddam Hussein -- some in use, many in ruins like much of the war-scarred country.