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April 9 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1413, Henry V was crowned king of England. In 1816, the first all-black U.S. religious denomination, the AME church, was organized in Philadelphia. In 1865, ...

Jubilant Iraqis celebrated the collapse of Saddam Hussein's regime by beheading a toppled statue of their longtime ruler in downtown Baghdad and embracing American troops as liberators. "He killed ...

Marines briefly covered Saddam's head with an American flag, like a hood. But they removed it and hung the black-red-and-white Iraqi flag from his neck before they fixed a cable to the statue and ...

TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (AP) -- Dolores Popaditch had a maternal reaction when she saw the photograph of her U.S. Marine son holding a cigar near a Saddam Hussein statue in central Baghdad shortly before it ...

Trump: We’d be better off if Hussein and Gadhafi were still in power. Donald Trump believes the world would be better off if ...

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- With the help of a crane, dozens of Iraqis chanting anti-Baath Party slogans toppled a statue of former President Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr Sunday in the upscale Baghdad district of ...

In “The Achilles Trap,” Steve Coll paints the demise of the Iraqi dictator as a tragedy of misperceptions on both sides. A U.S. marine with a statue of Saddam Hussein in downtown Baghdad in 2003, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On April 9, 2003, Iraqis, with help from Americans, toppled a 20-foot-tall statue of Saddam Hussein in Baghdad's Firdos Square.