Bridges seized, U.S. in control
Facing little resistance from Iraqi troops, paratroopers from the 82nd Airborne Division crossed the Euphrates River on Friday and now control the major bridges in and out of this city....
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Iraqis surrender in small groups
During a brief lull in shelling by U.S. forces Wednesday afternoon, Iraqi soldiers, alone and in groups of two and three, came to surrender. "I heard from the speakers to...
War dispatches
WITH THE 82nd AIRBORNE DIVISION AS SAMAWAH, Iraq -- With the dogs of the central Iraq desert howling in the dark, paratroopers from the 82nd Airborne Division stealthily made their...
War dispatches
WITH THE 1st MARINE EXPEDITIONARY FORCE IN CENTRAL IRAQ--There was no family to watch and no camera to record it, but there was a ceremony to hold nonetheless. So Maj....
War dispatches
WITH THE 1st MARINE EXPEDITIONARY FORCE IN CENTRAL IRAQ--There was no family to watch and no camera to record it, but there was a ceremony to hold nonetheless. So Maj....
War dispatches
WITH THE 1st MARINE EXPEDITIONARY FORCE IN CENTRAL IRAQ--Clad in green camouflage vestments, Rev. William Devine knelt in the red mud and whispered a private prayer. As chaplain for the...
No place for trust on road crucial to U.S. convoys
"Red, red, red! They've got a gun!" yelled the soldier rooting through the pickup's bed. The National Guard officers manning the checkpoint dropped to defensive positions, guns raised at the...
WITH THE 82nd AIRBORNECHAMPION MAIN, Kuwait– Sgt….
WITH THE 82nd AIRBORNE CHAMPION MAIN, Kuwait-- Sgt. Glenn Wallace, a noncom who in another era wouldn't have been on the radar screen of top military brass, blushed as the...
Allies storm into Iraq
Ground troops entered southern Iraq on Thursday, sweeping through a desert landscape clouded by burning oil rigs and skirmishing with Iraqi soldiers as the military campaign to oust Saddam Hussein...
War dispatches
WITH THE 82nd AIRBORNE DIVISION The waiting is boring. There are no distractions for these paratroopers, other than the series of missile warnings that sent them to the bunkers, playing...