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Al-Awja (Arabic: العوجة) is a village 8 miles (13 km) south of Tikrit, Iraq on the western bank of the Tigris. It is mainly inhabited by Sunni Arabs. The village is known for being the hometown and place of burial of former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein.
Dec 30, 2006 · Apr 28 1937: Saddam Hussein is born in the village al-Awja, near the town of Tikrit in north-central Iraq. His father disappeared shortly after his birth and he was raised by his stepfather and...
Mar 16, 2015 · Footage filmed by the AP news agency shows that all that remains standing of the once-lavish mausoleum in the village of al-Awja are some pillars. Iraqi forces and Iranian-backed Shia militia...
Apr 16, 2018 · In his native village of Al-Awjah, the mausoleum of Iraq's executed dictator Saddam Hussein has been reduced to broken concrete and tangled barbed wire, showing no trace of his remains.
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Sep 16, 2010 · Al-Awja is the village where the family of President Saddam Hussein – who ruled Iraq for more than thirty years, before being executed following the US occupation of Iraq – continues to live until this day.
The blackened burial site in the deposed leader’s birthplace of Al-Awja, about 95 miles north of Baghdad, was shown in unverified amateur video posted to YouTube.
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Saddam Hussein Takrity was born in the town of Al-Awja, 13 km (8 mi) from the Iraqi town of Tikrit to a family of shepherds from the al-Begat tribal group. His mother, Subha Tulfah al-Mussallat, named her newborn son Saddam, which in Arabic means “One who confronts.”
