~ The capital is turning out to be a "critical point" in the war. BAGHDAD, Iraq -- The Iraq war could be heading to its decisive moment: a battle for the capital of Baghdad that already has turned ...

He is much better in assessing what went wrong, and why, after the decision to invade had been made. To be sure, Fiasco does not add too much to our store of knowledge about what happened in the ...

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 ...

Elements of the U.S. Army's 3rd Infantry Division attack Iraqi Republican Guard positions near Baghdad, while further south, Army units surround the Shiite holy city of Najaf. In Baghdad, U.S.-led ...

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