Saddam Haftar
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Saddam Haftar is a Libyan military officer and politician, serving as the chief of staff of the ground forces of the Libyan National Army and commander and de facto head of the Tariq Ben Zeyad Brigade
Haftar in 2026
Saddam Hussein
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Saddam Hussein was an Iraqi politician and revolutionary who served as the fifth president of Iraq from 1979 until his overthrow in 2003 during the Iraq war. He previously served as the vice president
Saddam Haftar
…Not much is known about Haftar's upbringings, and he has no known secondary school qualifications. He is named after the former president of Iraq Saddam Hussein. He has been commander of the Tariq Ben Zeyad Brigade since its emergence in 2016, which has been accused of crushing any opposition to his father's…
Official portrait, 1979
Saddam in his youth as a shepherd in his village, near Tikrit, 1956
Saddam and other Ba'athists posing on top of a tank after a successful coup in February 1963
Saddam and al-Bakr, de jure president of Iraq alongside Hafez al-Assad of Syria at an Arab League summit in Baghdad in November 1978