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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.
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.
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.
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...
Mar 18, 2023 · More than a thousand families from the Iraqi village of Al-Awja, the hometown of the late Iraqi president Saddam Hussein, have been living away from their homes for nearly a decade. In 2014, the rise of ISIS and its grip on large swathes of provinces west and north of Iraq, including Saladin Governorate, where Al-Awja is situated, forced ...
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...
Al-Awja village, where Saddam was raised, was one of the poorest areas in Iraq. Its mud houses, scarce resources, and lack of opportunity subdued its residents' aspirations. But for the young Saddam adversity became a driving force to defy the defeatist mind-set of his fellow villagers.
