United States forces advanced to within 30 kilometres of Baghdad last night after ”destroying” at least one division of Iraqi Republican Guard troops and crippling another, senior military commanders said.
Yesterday’s strike took out two homes of an extended family of about a dozen. Tuesday’s raid destroyed the local school, and on Monday a poor baklava seller, pitied by the entire neighbourhood, lost his wife, mother, sister, nephew, and two sons to American missiles.
British troops on the outskirts of Basra were yesterday distributing leaflets in an attempt to reassure local people that their intentions were benign.
US military officials described yesterday how special forces commandos launched a daring midnight raid to rescue a young American soldier missing in Iraq for 10 days.
A BBC cameraman was killed and a producer injured yesterday when they stepped on landmines while filming near the frontline in Kurdish northern Iraq.
For 14 years she has been known simply as the Central Park Jogger. Known to the nation not by her name, but by what she was doing and where she was doing it on April 19 1989 — the night she was beaten into a coma, brutally raped and left for dead in a pool of mud.
The Serb member of Bosnia’s three-man, multi-ethnic presidency resigned yesterday over illegal military supplies to Saddam Hussein.
Leading French politicians, apparently seeking to rebuild bridges with Washington, warned yesterday against mounting anti-Americanism in France and stressed that the US remained one of the country’s most valued allies.
Karamojong warriors believe it is their religious duty to ‘recover’ cattle from their neighbouring tribes. Heavy fighting has broken out at the Uganda-Kenya border between the Ugandan army and cattle-rustling Karamojong warriors.
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