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  • U.S. Questions Iraqi Generals on Weapons

    American forces in Iraq are chasing down leads from captured Iraqis and documents on possible chemical and biological weapons sites, but as of Monday had not confirmed the presence of any weapons of mass destruction, a senior administration official said. A suspicious plant captured by American troops was still being evaluated, according to the official,.. More

  • U.S. Copter Crash in Afghanistan Kills 6

    A U.S. Air Force helicopter on a mercy mission to help two injured Afghan children crashed in southeastern Afghanistan , killing all six people on board, the U.S. military said Monday. The HH-60G Pave Hawk helicopter from the 41st Rescue. Squadron at Moody Air Force Base in Georgia was on its way late Sunday to pick up the children, who had suffered.. More

  • Israeli Occupation troops Kill Palestinian Teen

    A 15-year-old Palestinian throwing stones at Israeli occupation troops in the West Bank was killed by occupation army fire Monday, Palestinian hospital officials said. Earlier Monday, the occupation army said occupation troops dismantled an illegal Jewish settlement near the West Bank city of Hebron, the first such outpost taken down since Prime Minister.. More

  • Iraqi Farmers Down 2 US Apache Helicopters, One Shown on Iraqi TV; US Missile Hits Passenger Bus in Syria

    Iraqi TV has shown an apache helicopter, which Iraqi information minister, Mohammad Saeed al-Sahaf said was downed together with another helicopter of the same type, by Iraqi farmers near Karbala, South of Baghdad. In a press conference he gave in the Iraqi capital, noon time, Monday, March 24, 2003, Mr. Sahaf also said hundreds of thousands of well.. More

  • Saddam Addresses Iraq

    Putting an end to speculation that he was either dead or seriously wounded, Iraqi president Saddam Hussein went on Iraqi TV to address his people congratulating them on the steadfastness they have shown in the field of battle so far and asking them to give more to fulfill the Koran's message of martyrdom and the divine promise of Hell fire to the enemies.. More

  • Arab Foreign Ministers Begin Their Regular Meeting in Cairo Among demands by Iraq to Ministers to Intervene to End the War

    Arab League foreign ministers began their regular biannual Arab League ministerial session in Cairo, Monday morning with Iraqi foreign minister, Naji Sabri demanding a "unified stance from the Arabs ... to condemn this occupation, to stop the war immediately and withdraw the invaders." On the first foreign trip by an Iraqi official since the start of.. More

  • Fierce Resistance Blunts US Push

    Five US soldiers have been captured and paraded on Iraqi television, on what American commanders said was the toughest day of fighting since war began. Two British soldiers have also gone missing in southern Iraq, the UK Ministry of Defence said on Monday. Central Baghdad was hit by several large explosions early on Monday, as ground forces continued.. More

  • World Divided over US Request to Sever Iraq Ties

    The international community remained divided over whether to comply with Washington's pointed request to sever diplomatic ties with the present Iraqi government ahead of a promised "regime change".Italy on Sunday became the latest US ally to expel Iraqi diplomats, but stopped short of severing ties. Rome allowed the head of the Iraqi mission, which.. More

  • Baghdad Bombings Fuel fourth Day of Global Protests

    US veterans were planning to march on American war memorials with images of US bombs pounding Baghdad fuelling a fourth day of global protests against the war of Iraq. More than a million people protested across Europe and North America on Saturday, and although the crowd numbers have fallen from earlier demonstrations, passions continued to run high... More

  • Many US casualties in Nassiriya battle; Footage of American POWs, including woman, shown on Iraqi TV

    On Sunday afternoon, the Qatar-based television al Jazeera broadcast Iraqi TV, showing a videotape of at least 10 US POWs, including one female soldier, and a room with some 15 bodies of US troops. The live broadcast included also footage of a battlefield area in the southern Iraqi city of Nassiriya with additional corpses of US soldiers as well as.. More

  • Iraqis Mount Stiff Resistance

    US-led forces have been encountering pockets of stubborn resistance as they press ahead towards the Iraqi capital Baghdad. In one of the longest-running challenges so far in the conflict, air strikes were called in on the port town of Umm Qasr to overcome about 120 Iraqis - including suspected elite Republican Guards - firing against US forces. US aircraft.. More

  • Saddam's VP: We Have Prisoners of War

    The Iraqi vice president said Sunday that U.S. prisoners of war had been captured and would soon be shown on television. "Within hours you will watch American prisoners on TV screens and you will see films of burnt tanks at Suk al-Shoukh," said Taha Yassin Ramadan, referring to a town about 20 miles southeast of Nasiriyah, which coalition troops said.. More

  • Ground War on Baghdad Seen by Tuesday-UK Source

    The ground war to capture Baghdad should begin by Tuesday with no plan for coalition troops to get bogged down fighting in Iraq's second city of Basra, a British defense source said on Sunday. "We're looking toward Monday night, Tuesday for the ground offensive on Baghdad," the source told Reuters on condition of anonymity. "The important thing is not.. More

  • British Plane Allegedly Shot Down by US Missile; Fighting Near Najaf ; 77 Iraqi Civilians Killed in Basra

    Britain said on Sunday that a Royal Air Force plane appeared to have been shot down by a U.S. missile near Iraq's border with Kuwait, taking to three the number of alleged aircraft accidents since the war started. Fourteen British soldiers and five Americans died in two helicopter accidents the two previous days. Patriot missile launchers are designed.. More

  • Fighting South of Baghdad as City Bombed Again

    Iraqi troops fought U.S. forces overnight near the central Shi'ite city of Najaf as American bombs again shook Baghdad, briefly knocking out parts of the power grid. Just as the call to dawn prayers was sounding in the Iraqi capital, one particularly strong blast shook the city center as planes rumbled overhead, Reuters correspondent Samia Nakhoul said... More