KUWAIT CITY, April 5 -- The U.S. military opened the battle for Baghdad today by dispatching more than 40 tanks and other armored vehicles on a wide arc through the capital's southwestern quadrant in ...

BAGHDAD, Iraq — Baghdad residents are snapping up pistols and hunting rifles; trenches and sandbagged gun positions are multiplying. Militiamen loyal to Saddam Hussein say they're ready for a fight to ...

Every war has its battles for the cities and in 2003 as US forces, aided predominantly by the United Kingdom, invaded Saddam Hussein’s Iraq, planners in Washington knew that at some point their troops ...

April 2003, during the Battle of Baghdad, a massive sandstorm turned the battlefield into chaos. In the middle of it, two A-10 Warthog pilots launched a dangerous mission after learning a U.S. armored ...

Huge explosions shook buildings in the heart of the capital Tuesday, apparently from U.S. forces bombing Iraqi positions on the city outskirts. With coalition troops closing in, the streets were ...

BAGHDAD, Iraq - In the opening battle of a major drive to tame the violent capital, the Iraqi army reported it killed 30 militants Saturday in a firefight in a Sunni insurgent stronghold just north of ...