Hasan Hadi's tragicomedy about Iraqi kids' big-city misadventures layers charm, insight and drama.

Iraq says a high-level officer during Saddam Hussein's rule has been hanged for his involvement in the 1980 killing of a prominent Shiite cleric ...

Hasan Hadi’s film The President’s Cake centres on a deceptively simple premise: every year, schoolchildren were selected to ...

Warm, funny and heartbreaking, The President’s Cake tells the story of a brutal ruler and a girl forced to make him a present in a time of sanctions-induced hardship. Its Iraqi director Hasan Hadi rem ...

Nine-year-old Lamia is obliged by her school to make a birthday cake for the Iraqi president, and meets a series of vivid characters as she shops for sanctioned ingredients ...

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Saddam Hussein dodged questions from prosecutors cross-examining him for the first time Wednesday over a crackdown against Shiites in the 1980s. But he acknowledged approving death ...

For Iraqis who lived through the 1990s, dictator Saddam Hussein's birthday on April 28 was a disorientating day of ...

B A G H D A D, Iraq, July 1, 2004 -- Defiant, belligerent and a little anxious, former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein appeared before a single Iraqi judge in a courtroom near Baghdad today to hear ...

BAGHDAD, Iraq – Saddam Hussein’s half brother argued with the chief judge Monday and accused a court employee of shaking down a relative for money as the trial entered its final phase without the ...

A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On Dec. 13, 2003, Saddam Hussein was captured by U.S. forces while hiding in a hole under a farmhouse in Adwar, Iraq, ...

Iraq executes former Major General Saadoun Sabri al-Qaisi for his role in the 1980 killing of Shiite cleric Mohammed Baqir al-Sadr.