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BAGHDAD (AP) — Of his countless stories of his life as a hairdresser in Iraq, the one Qaiss al-Sharaa most enjoys retelling is about the day April 9, ...

Twenty years after Iraqis and U.S. Marines pulled down the statue of Saddam Hussein in Baghdads Firdos Square, all images of the former leader are long gone.

Iraqis and American Marines pulled down the statue of Saddam Hussein in Baghdad’s Firdos Square in April 2003 in an iconic moment in the U.S.-led invasion, but the statue was a minor part of the huge number of monuments and palaces Saddam erected to show off his power