Mar 21 Watch View from Baghdad with John Burns Terence Smith talks with New York Times reporter John Burns about the massive coalition air strikes that took place Friday in the Iraqi capital. Continue watching
Mar 20 Gregg Ramshaw’s Dispatches from Qatar: March 20 By PBS News Hour NewsHour producer Gregg Ramshaw, on assignment to cover military operations in the Gulf, describes the media scene at the U.S. Central Command headquarters in Doha on the first day of strikes against Iraq. Continue reading
Mar 20 Second Wave of U.S. Cruise Missile Attacks Strikes Baghdad U.S. cruise missiles exploded into the center of Baghdad Thursday night local time, shaking the city with explosions and sparking building fires in an attack significantly more intense than the initial U.S. air strike that launched the war with Iraq. Continue reading
Mar 20 Ground Forces Reportedly Enter Iraq U.S. ground forces began an "intense artillery barrage" against Iraqi troops near the Kuwaiti border around 8 p.m. local time (noon EST) on Thursday and, nearly an hour later, launched an invasion into Iraq, news reports from the region said. Continue reading
Mar 20 U.S. Forces Begin War With Iraq, Down Iraqi Scud Missile U.S. forces opened the first round in a war with Iraq early Thursday local time, launching a barrage of cruise missiles and precision guided bombs at "targets of military importance" near Baghdad. Continue reading
Mar 20 Russia, China, France Blast Opening of Iraq War World leaders reacted Thursday to the initial U.S. attack on Iraq, offering assessments of U.S. actions and considering the effect of military conflict on the world. Continue reading
Mar 20 President Bush Announces "Early Stages" of War Have Begun President Bush announced late Wednesday that precision strikes mounted on specific targets in Baghdad were the "early stages" of the U.S. war against Iraq. Continue reading
Mar 20 Iraq War Begins With Strikes on "Selected Targets" U.S. forces staged pinpoint military strikes in Iraq early Thursday morning local time, bombing targets near Baghdad as dawn broke over the Iraqi capital. Continue reading
Mar 20 Watch The Terror Threat to the Homeland Ray Suarez talks to Elaine Shannon about the terror threat within the United States as the war against Iraq enters its second day. Continue watching
Mar 20 Watch Target Saddam Hussein Margaret Warner holds a discussion on the strike at the Iraqi leadership with retired Colonel John Warden, retired Colonel W. Patrick Lang, retired Air Force Colonel Samuel Gardiner, and Adeed Dawisha, a professor of political science at Miami University in… Continue watching