After two years under IS, Saddam's joy at losing the beard For the past two years, much of Saddam Dahham's life boiled down to praying and haggling with the jihadists ruling his village over the length of his beard. Now he, his wife and their three children are free from the Islamic State group that took over their village northeast of Mosul, the extremists' main hub in Iraq. A natural sound version of an AFPTV report.