Iraq has hundreds, maybe thousands, of Saddam Husseins. In the 1970s, '80s, and '90s, if a child was born on the former dictator's birthday, the family might get money as a reward from the government.

Below is the popularity graph of the name Saddam from 1990 to 2024, based on data from the SSA. Based on the popular names list by SSA, the Arabic Roman Urdu origin boy name has remained popular over ...

New babies are being named Saddam by their parents in this oil refinery town 160 miles north of Baghdad, such is the hostility to the US occupation, an official at the local births and deaths ...

Former Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz has started calling his youngest son — named Saddam after Iraq's ousted leader — by the name Zuhair instead, according to letters obtained by the ...

Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz has warned Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei ‘of a fate similar to Saddam ...

T I K R I T, Iraq, Feb. 10 -- The president of Iraq was born in a mud hut, and given the name Saddam, which turned out to be apt. In Arabic, it means "one who confronts." The hut no longer stands ...

This was an extended version of the Defense Intelligence Agency’s deck of cards with hundreds of names of lower-level government officials, like members of Saddam’s Special Security Organization.

After 9-11, as talk of war against Iraq picked up in Washington, the Iraqi Intelligence Service (IIS) became jittery. On Oct. 29, 2002, a memo from Directorate 14 (in charge of special operations ...

The names “Saddam” and “Uday” were given to many Jordanians born between the 1980s and the 2000s, and members of the ...

The Tomahawk are intermediate-range cruise missiles with a range of around 1,250 kilometers to 2,500 kilometers.