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 ...
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 ...