And the views of the Tigris? Spectacular. After bombing Saddam Hussein's New Presidential Palace today, the US Army swept in and took an inventory. Soldiers searched the vast complex by the river ...

US troops moved into Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit yesterday as a senior defence ... heart of the town and seizing the presidential palace without a fight as they rolled past abandoned ...

It tells the story of a medieval pagan king (Saddam) ruling Tikrit (Saddam’s hometown ... are plots against his life everywhere in his palace. Zabiba alone gives him good counsel and dares ...

The recapture of Tikrit is of both strategic and symbolic importance. Located about 160 kilometers (100 miles) north of Baghdad, it is the hometown of former president Saddam Hussein ...