Apr 02 Watch On the Homefront: The Airline Industry The White House announced that it considered Republican-led proposals to provide $3 billion in aid to the airline industry "excessive," saying that the war with Iraq has not damaged air travel as badly as the industry had projected. Betty Ann… Continue watching
Apr 02 Watch Supplying the Front A look at the challenges involved in keeping U.S. troops on the frontline and throughout Iraq fully supplied. Continue watching
Apr 02 Watch Rescue Mission: Jessica Lynch U.S. special operations forces rescued prisoner of war Jessica Lynch from a hospital in Nasiriyah yesterday. Ray Suarez reports with more on the mission. Continue watching
Apr 01 Major Battle Reportedly Rages Near Karbala In what may be the first major battle in a final push toward Baghdad, U.S. forces reportedly engaged Iraqi Republican Guard units in a "massive" battle near the central Iraqi city of Karbala. Continue reading
Apr 01 Statement From Saddam Hussein Calls for Jihad In a statement read on Iraqi state television, president Saddam Hussein called on the Iraqi people to commit themselves to a holy war against U.S. and British forces seeking his ouster. Continue reading
Apr 01 Iraqi Civillian Casualties Result From Incidents At Checkpoints Officials at U.S. Central Command said current checkpoint procedures will not change despite Monday's incident at a U.S. guarded military checkpoint in Iraq that resulted in the deaths of at least seven and an unarmed Iraqi man on Tuesday. Continue reading
Apr 01 Watch Rules of Engagement in Iraq Jim Lehrer discusses the latest military moves in Iraq with retired Colonel W. Patrick Lang, retired Marine Corps Colonel Gary Anderson, and Eliot Cohen, Professor of Strategic Studies at the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University. Continue watching
Apr 01 Watch Embedded Journalists in Iraq: War Stories Terence Smith assesses the strengths and weaknesses of the Pentagon's "embedding" program and its effect on news coverage of the war in Iraq. Continue watching
Mar 31 Gregg Ramshaw's Dispatches from Qatar: March 31 By PBS News Hour NewsHour producer Gregg Ramshaw, dispatched to Qatar to report from U.S. Central Command, describes the media's ongoing battle to squeeze out new information from the daily CentCom press briefings. Continue reading
Mar 31 Syria Reaffirms Opposition to U.S.-Led War in Iraq Following new warnings from Secretary of State Colin Powell to stop backing the Iraqi leadership, Syria announced Monday it has chosen to support Iraq against an "illegal" American-led "occupation" of Iraq. Continue reading