Mar 22 Watch Marching Forward Towards Baghdad U.S. and British forces pressed on towards Baghdad, as other coalition troops advanced in a battle over the second largest Iraqi city of Basra. Three retired military officials provide analysis of the progress of the U.S.-led mission in Iraq. Continue watching
Mar 22 Watch War, Live Terence Smith explores how the high-tech media equipment and the "embedding" of some 500 journalists with U.S. military units in Iraq has changed the way wars are covered. Continue watching
Mar 21 Turkish Troops Enter Northern Iraq The Turkish government on Friday deployed some 1,500 commando troops into the Kurdish-dominated enclave of northern Iraq despite opposition from the U.S. and local Kurdish officials. Continue reading
Mar 21 Iraqi Division Surrenders to Coalition Troops An entire division of Iraqi troops numbering some 8,000 soldiers surrendered to U.S.-led coalition troops in southern Iraq on Friday, Defense Department officials told the Associated Press. Continue reading
Mar 21 Coalition Unleashes Massive Bombing Campaign in Iraq U.S.-led coalition forces mounted the largest air offensive yet in the skies over Iraq on Friday, with cruise missiles and bombs smashing into government buildings in Baghdad and sending massive balls of flame into the night sky. Continue reading
Mar 21 U.S. Takes "Tentative" Control of Airfields in Western Iraq U.S. forces have reportedly seized two important airfields and possible hidden weapons caches in western Iraq Friday, but defense officials reportedly warned that control of the territory was "tentative."… Continue reading
Mar 21 U.S. Correspondents Expelled From Iraq The Iraqi government expelled four CNN reporters, including correspondents Nic Robertson and Rym Brahimi, from the country, forcing the four to join the hundreds of U.S. journalists fleeing the bombarded Iraqi capital. Continue reading
Mar 21 Major U.S. Ground Offensive Picks Up Speed Coalition forces increased the intensity of a major ground attack Friday with U.S. Army infantry and Marine divisions racing north and west in an apparent advance toward the capital city of Baghdad. Continue reading
Mar 21 U.S., British Forces Take Southern Iraq City, Faw Peninsula As U.S. and British troops took territory in southern Iraq on the first day of the ground war, some seven oil fires were set by retreating Iraqi troops, British Defense Minister Geoffrey Hoon said Friday. Continue reading
Mar 21 U.S. Helicopter Crashes, First Coalition Deaths Reported Eight British royal commandos and four U.S. Marines were killed Thursday when a U.S. Marine helicopter crashed south of the Iraqi border in Kuwait, Pentagon officials report. The crew of 12 became the first coalition casualties of the war with… Continue reading