To understand the actions of Yaqub al-Mansur, we must first examine the circumstances that led Saladin to seek his aid. Numerous historical sources recount how Saladin, in the midst of his ...

An aerial view of the 'Al-Mansur' yacht, once belonging to former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, which has been lying on the water bed for years in the Shatt al-Arab waterway, in Basra, Iraq on ...

Saddam Hussein's 121-metre al-Mansur capsized when it was targeted by US forces in 2003, but he had never boarded the yacht.