Why did the US support Saddam Hussein?
Saddam Hussein was bolstered by the West throughout the 1980’s because his aggression to Iran resulting in the Iran – Iraq war was seen as useful in acting as a check on the rise of Shia power. As a consequence after being encouraged to rebel the West stood back and let Hussein massacre at least 100,000 Shia Iraqis.
Why did Iraqi uprisings against Saddam Hussein fail?
The Gulf crisis of 1990-1991 was paradoxically a favorable period for the regime, but the roots of the failure of the March uprising can also be found in the period of the war between Iraq and Iran, when the opposition developed a belief that war and revolution were indivisibly linked.
Who was Saddam Hussein and what did he do?
After his capture on 13 December 2003, the trial of Saddam Hussein took place under the Iraqi Interim Government. On 5 November 2006, Saddam was convicted by an Iraqi court of crimes against humanity related to the 1982 killing of 148 Iraqi Shi’a and sentenced to death by hanging. He was executed on 30 December 2006.
What does Saddam place over the graves of his sons?
In the days after he was hanged, supporters of Saddam made a shrine of his burial site in a hall attached to a mosque in Awja, the village north of Baghdad where he was born, flocking to pay their respects at the flag-draped marble tomb.
Is there still conflict in Iraq?
Continued ISIL insurgency (2017–present) Following ISIL’s defeat in December 2017, the group has continued an insurgency mostly in the rural parts of the country. However they have been greatly weakened and violence in Iraq has been sharply reduced in 2018.
Who controls Mosul now?
The Iraqi city of Mosul was captured by the “Islamic State” group in 2014. Much of its cultural heritage was destroyed during the occupation. Three year’s after Mosul’s liberation, the city is now being rebuilt. In the summer of 2014, the “Islamic State” group (IS) conquered Iraq’s second largest city of Mosul.