Mar 28 Watch Aid Crisis in Southern Iraq The U.N. Security Council, which remains divided over the military campaign underway in Iraq, voted unanimously Friday to restart the program that enables Iraq to exchange billions in oil funds for humanitarian assistance. Marc Santora reports from Kuwait City on… Continue watching
Mar 27 Iraq Plans Intense Defense of Baghdad With bombs falling on the southern outskirts of Baghdad, the Iraqi minister of defense said Thursday he expects U.S. forces to encircle the capital in as soon as five days. Continue reading
Mar 27 President, Blair Call for International Humanitarian Effort The leaders of Britain and the United States called on the United Nations to take step to restart humanitarian programs to feed some 60 percent of the Iraqi people. Continue reading
Mar 27 British Attack Column of Iraqi Tanks Near Basra British forces on Thursday destroyed a column of Iraqi tanks trying to break out of the besieged southern city of Basra, coalition officials said. Continue reading
Mar 27 Northern Front Opens With Paratroop Drop, New Bombings With American forces successfully in control of an airfield in northern Iraq and aircraft continuing to pound Iraqi positions, coalition forces have opened more of a northern front in the ongoing war with Iraq. Continue reading
Mar 27 Watch Iraq: Military Moves As Iraq's defense minister warns that Iraqi forces are preparing to defend Baghdad from the U.S. and British advance with fierce street battles, three military experts assess how coalition troops are progressing and what they may face in the days… Continue watching
Mar 27 Watch Coping with the Iraq War on the Homefront Lee Hochberg of Oregon Public Television reports on how the schools in Sacramento, California, are coping with lessons about the Iraq war. Continue watching
Mar 26 U.S. General Accuses Iraqis of Executing Prisoners of War One of the U.S. military's top generals accused Iraqi forces of a series of violations of the rules of war, including the execution of prisoners of war, the use of civilian "human shields", and the falsifying of surrenders to ambush… Continue reading
Mar 26 U.S. Paratroopers Aid in Effort to Establish Northern Front An estimated 1,000 U.S. Army paratroopers landed in Kurdish controlled northern Iraq Wednesday as U.S. efforts continued to open a second, limited northern front against President Saddam Hussein's forces. Continue reading
Mar 26 U.S., British Leaders to Discuss Iraq War, Reconstruction President Bush welcomed British Prime Minister Tony Blair at Camp David, marking the first U.S.-U.K. summit since the beginning of the war on Iraq. The leaders were set to discuss the progress of the war effort and plans for post-war… Continue reading