Family of Saddam Hussein
The Tulfah family was the family of Saddam Hussein of Ba'athist Iraq who ruled from 1968 to 2003 and established a single party authoritarian government under the control of the Ba'ath Party until the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Al-Tikriti family is originally from Al-Awja, about 13 kilometers from Tikrit, and are members of the minority Sunni population.