13:29
Heavy Bombardment of Baghdad Begins
Another heavy bombardment of Baghdad has just begun. Rosbalt's correspondent reports that at least 15 bombs have exploded in the centre of Baghdad. One bomb accidentally fell on a building adjacent to a mosque. There is information yet on casualties, but the city's air raid warning system is known to have worked. More details...

12:53
U.S. and British Aviation Again Bombs Mosul
On Wednesday aviation of the USA and Great Britain again bombed the Iraqi city of Mosul. The Al Jazeera TV channel of Qatar reports that four air raids has been made on the city. More details...

12:34
Two British Soldiers Killed Near Basra
Two British soldiers have been killed by the American-British forces near Basra, reported the Sky-TV. According to this television channel, at the present time fierce battles are going on in that area between the American-British soldiers and the defenders of the city. More details...

12:32
USA Drops Two Cluster Bombs Near Kerbela
The United States has dropped two cluster bombs near Kerbela, south of Baghdad. This was reported on Wednesday by the Japanese agency Kyodo News Service with reference to a representative of the US armed forces on the American aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk in the Persian Gulf. More details...

12:25
Iraqi Television Put out of Operation by Secret Experimental "Electronic" Bomb
Iraqi television has been put out of operation by an experimental "electronic" bomb which is a device generating powerful electromagnetic impulses, the C.B.S. TV company has reported. More details...

08:54
The War in Iraq is Definitely not WWIII
It looks like Saddam is not intended to harms Americans
The strange war has been going on for a week already. Numerous messages about battles and bombings are mixed up with news messages about killed British and American soldiers. News programs keep broadcasting the footage of illuminated Baghdad at night. More details...

17:13
Basra Resistance Still Strong
51st division of the Iraqi army launched the counter-offensive
Iraqi troops that have been defending the city of Basra for six days already. Qatar-based television channel Al-Jazeera reported that Iraqi troops launched the counter-offensive. According to Al-Jazeera’s information, battles started on the outskirts of Basra. Iraqi troops reportedly try to retrieve the control over the city’s airport More details...

16:43
Old Asia Says NO
It is rumored that the USA has prepared over 300 new super-effective instruments of killing for this Gulf war
It won’t be a surprise at all if someone in Washington calls China old Asia, the same manner that the label old Europe was invented for France and Germany. By analogy with leaders from the old Europe (Bulgarian and others who would like to rush to Baghdad), there are Asiatic politicians who also want to do George W. Bush favor. Bangkok, Kabul, Manila, Seoul, Taipei and Tokyo expressed their solidarity with the US aggression on the very first day of the war. But these six YES in support of the aggression are all together much less than one NO said by China, and also by India More details...

16:22
An Affront to the Laws of Humanity
It is but the one-sided slaughter of a defenseless people, almost half of them children
It is but the one-sided slaughter of a defenseless people, almost half of them children, an affront to the laws of humanity so profound that it "cries revenge before God" said the Vatican. Because there is no enemy, except perhaps in the tortured minds of ageing draft-dodgers, there can be but an empty victory for the nation that has managed to turn the nearly universal sympathy she received after September 11th into nearly universal contempt More details...

15:48
Iraq Not to Use Chemical Weapons When Defending Baghdad?
Iraqi Ambassador to Moscow Abbas Khalaf refuted information of the western media saying that while defending Baghdad Iraq might use prohibited weapons against the troops of the U.S. - British coalition. More details...

15:25
10 Americans Killed in an-Nasiriyya
Iraqi television reported that the Apache chopper was brought down near the city of Karbala
New air raids as Iraq downs two US Apache helicopters. Iraqi television today showed pictures of an American Apache military helicopter shot down south of the capital, Baghdad. The black aircraft could be seen still loaded with guided missiles bearing American markings. Iraqi television reported that the chopper was brought down near the city of Karbala, 110km south west of the capital, Baghdad More details...

15:09
U.S. Aviation Continues to Strike at Basra's Residential Areas Using Cassette Bombs
American aviation delivered new strikes on the residential areas of Basra using cassette bombs, a correspondent of the Al-Jazeera TV channel of Qatar reported from Basra. According to him, fierce artillery shelling of the city by the American and British troops continued all through the night. More details...

14:30
Main Objective of War – New Weapon Tests
This is the top-priority objective for America, all the rest are minor objectives or undisguised misinformation in fact
Reserve Major-General, Professor Vladimir Slipchenko, military analyst, doctor of military science is Russia’s first-rate specialist on wars of tomorrow. His forecasts concerning US’s military operations in Iraq (1991, 1996 and 1998), in Yugoslavia (1999) and Afghanistan (2001) proved to be almost 100% true, and that was proved by the actual course of the operations. Now the analyst gives forecasts concerning further development and result of the US-led war in Iraq More details...

13:49
Iraq May Attack Israel
At least two Iraqi rockets with a range of over 150 kilometres have been found in the west of Iraq. According to mignews.com military experts believe these rockets could be 'destined' for Israel. It is still unclear why Iraq did not attack Israel immediately after the outbreak of the war. It seems possible that Iraq will try to attack Israel when coalition forces invade Baghdad. More details...

10:27
Bush’s Casus
Casus belli, a reason for war against Hussein was very simple for Bush, very much like his political program. It supposes that America is good and Iraq is bad, and what is more important, Iraq has got weapons of mass destruction
The path of war is hard and dangerous, as the enemy has much weapon, and this is not ordinary weapon but weapons of mass destruction. However, the war is underway but nobody hasn’t yet used this weapon against American troops. On the contrary, Iraqi troops display heroism and contain the enemy with ordinary shooting weapons More details...

02:03
US blames its setbacks on outdated Russian weapons
American army reversals in pursing the Iraqi "Blitzkrieg" are mutely resented in Washington. The White House is looking for causes of its strategic and tactical blunders not in miscalculations when preparing the Shock and Awe operation, nor in the political and military underestimation of the defence capabilities of Baghdad and its forces, but, as is their wont in such cases, in secondary and tertiary circumstances, which, all of a sudden, if only for propaganda purposes, become the most salient and move almost to the foreground. More details...

01:57
Russia denies sale of weapons, military equipment to Iraq
Sergei Yastrzhembsky, aide to the Russian President, denied allegations about Russia's sale to Iraq of anti-tank missiles, night vision weaponsights, and radio electronic appliances for intercepting bombs and missiles. More details...

01:55
Putin, Bush discuss reliff efforts in Iraq
In a telephone conversation Monday with his U.S. counterpart, George W. Bush, President Vladimir Putin of Russia underscored the necessity of averting the humanitarian disaster that the military action in the Gulf was likely to entail, the Kremlin press service reports. More details...

19:36
Assault on Baghdad Defeated by Sandstorm
Advanced forces of the US-led coalition in Iraq have had to delay an attack on Baghdad due to a sandstorm. Arab journalists report that US Marines were unable to cover the required distance due to almost zero visibility. More details...

18:50
Russia Rejects Illegal Arms Deliveries to Iraq
Senior officials of the country say that it was out of the question
We have already reported that Washington presented an official protest to the Russian Federation. The protest was based on the allegation of illegal deliveries of arms to Iraq. As American officials said, two Russian companies allegedly delivered anti-tank missiles, night vision devices and radio interception equipment to Iraq More details...

18:17
Will American Administration Declare War on Russia?
US officials think that Russia is guilty of their unsuccessful war
It is obvious today that the war in Iraq is not the kind of war that the American administration was intended to have. The strong resistance that Iraqi troops showed, Iraqi ABM systems and anti-tank facilities turned out to be an unexpected surprise for Americans More details...

16:25
Iraq Accuses US and Britain of 'War Crimes'
The Iraqi government has called on the UN to devote its attention to the actions of the 'American and British criminals' in Iraq. A high-ranking representative of the Iraqi cabinet today accused the US-led coalition forces of mainly bombing civilian targets, including bridges, dams, residential areas, and oil storage facilities. More details...

16:19
Coalition Bombing Raids Kill 62 Civilians in Iraq
Around 62 civilians were killed during last night's coalition bombing raids over Iraq, according to Iraqi Information Minister Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf. The minister, who gave a press conference today in Baghdad, said that last night the US-led coalition subjected Baghdad to the most extensive missile and bomb strikes since military action began. More details...

16:03
Iraq Promises to Treat Prisoners Humanely
Iraq will observe all the principles on treating prisoners of war set out in the Geneva Convention, according to a high-ranking official from the Iraqi Defence Ministry. The official said that Iraq is a civilised nation that treats everyone humanely, including prisoners of war. More details...

15:58
Saddam Hussein Calles on Arabs and Muslims to Wage War against US and Great Britain
Iraqi President Saddam Hussein has today made a televised address to the nation. According to Rosbalt's correspondent, the Iraqi leader called on all Arabs and Muslims to wage war against the US and British aggressors. More details...

13:40
Iraqi Ambassador to Moscow Refutes Reports on Discovering Chemical Production Plant in Southern Iraq
Iraqi ambassador to Moscow Abbas Khalaf refuted reports of western mass media that the chemical weapons production plant was discovered in southern Iraq. Khalaf said in an interview with RIA Novosti on Monday that these statements were a lie and that the Americans had been lying since the first day of the war. More details...

13:37
Iraq Claims US and Britain Dropped Cluster Bombs on Basra
The Iraqi Information Ministry claims that US and British warplanes dropped cluster bombs on the Iraqi city of Basra during raids yesterday. Basra is the second largest town in Iraq. Iraq claims that 77 civilians died in the city and over 500 received wounds of various degrees of severity. More details...

13:34
US Planes Destroy Iraqi Republican Guard Barracks
US warplanes last night launched a massive missile attack on Iraq Republican Guard barracks 100 kilometres from Baghdad, according to a report from the Egyptian news agency MENA. According to the Egyptian news agency, the Republican Guard units, many of which form part of Saddam Hussein's personal guard, suffered heavy losses. The report was confirmed by the US command. More details...

13:33
Besieged Basra Suffering from Water Shortage
The town of Basra, which is the second largest in Iraq, is suffering from a catastrophic shortage of water. This announcement was made today in Baghdad by representatives of the Iraqi government. According to official sources, the city's main water supplies were destroyed during yesterday's bombardment by US and British warplanes. More details...

13:31
Iraq Broadcasts Video Footage of Victories over US Forces
Iraq has broadcast video footage of victories by the Iraqi army around the town of Nasiriyah in the south of the country. Iraqi Vice President Taha Yasin Ramadan announced that during the battle for Nasiriyah on Saturday 'many American soldiers' were taken prisoner. More details...