The U.S. government has returned an antique chess set which once belonged to former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, and was stolen during the 2003 invasion of the Iraq. The United States Embassy in ...

The United States yesterday, Saturday, returned to the Iraqi embassy in Baghdad a stolen, antique chess board that belonged to late president Saddam Hussein, reports Iraqi News. “A stolen Iraqi ...

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“A pattern combining elegance and solidity to a degree hitherto unknown,” read the advertisement in the Illustrated London News for the Staunton chess set upon its introduction in 1849. In one of ...

Queensland Police are appealing for public assistance in finding a 17th-century, hand-carved ivory chess set stolen from a house in Brisbane's eastern suburbs. The antique was stolen from a property ...