IRAQ-CONFLICT: US says it has credible information on Saddam’s death

A forensic examination of the rubble would probably be needed to determine if Iraqi President Saddam Hussein was in the restaurant in the Baghdad suburb of Al-Mansour, bombed by US-led forces Monday afternoon, a military spokesman said Tuesday.

PHILIPPINES: Indonesia to help investigate deadly blast

Indonesia vowed full cooperation Tuesday into a probe over reports that five Indonesians were allegedly behind last week's bombing of a wharf in the southern Philippines that left 16 people dead.

IRAQ-CONFLICT: Spanish cameraman killed

José Couso, 37, a cameraman for Spanish television channel Tele 5, was wounded Tuesday in a tank shell and later died in hospital.

IRAQ-CONFLICT: Baghdad forces ready to crush invaders, says information

Iraqi Information Minister Mohammad Saeed Al-Sahaf has said on Tuesday that bombing on Baghdad has targeted the radio and TV building and some parts of Mariam Church, nearby the presidential compound and the Iraqi Planning Ministry.

IRAQ-CONFLICT: At least four Reuters staff injured in Baghdad

Four Reuters staff were injured in a blast on Tuesday at Baghdad's Palestine Hotel, the base for much of the foreign media in the Iraqi capital, Reuters correspondents in the hotel said.

IRAQ-CONFLICT: Journalists flee as Baghdad’s Palestine Hotel is bombarded

The Palestine hotel at which most Arab and foreign journalists covering the war in Iraq live, came under heavy bombings today by a US warplane wounding three correspondents and causing a substantial damage to the hotel, Al Jazeera satellite TV channel correspondent reported.

IRAQ-CONFLICT: US fighter plane goes down

A US A-10 "warthog" fighter plane went down near Baghdad airport on Tuesday but the pilot was safely rescued, the US central command war headquarters said in a statement published here today.

IRAQ-CONFLICT: US troops advance to Baghdad’s Al Gomhouriya Bridge

Two US tanks took up positions on Al Gomhouriya Bridge across the River Tigris in central Baghdad on Tuesday as gunfire and explosions rocked the city, said Radio Sawa in its World Today program.

IRAQ-CONFLICT: US aircraft intensifies heavy bombing on Baghdad

US invading fighter planes are flying intensive sorties at very low altitude on Baghdad since early this morning , accurately targeting selected targets, and avoiding the Iraqi anti-aircraft defense fires.

IRAQ-CONFLICT: Al Jazeera TV channel correspondent in Baghdad killed

Tareq Ayyoub (Jordanian), Al Jazeera satellite TV channel correspondent in the Iraqi capital was killed this morning when US aircraft bombed the TV network office here early today, Al Jazeera TV channel said.

IRAQ-CONFLICT: Contact with office of Abu Dhabi TV channel in Baghdad

-The United Arab Emirates (UAE) Abu Dhabi Satellite TV channel announced here today that its office in Baghdad was a target of bombardment today.

IRAQ-CONFLICT: Planning Ministry bombarded

The Dubai-based Al-Arabiya TV channel has reported that the Iraqi Planning Ministry was heavily bombarded.

IRAQ-CONFLICT: Al Jazeera TV says office hit by a US missile in Baghdad

Al Jazeera satellite TV channel office in Baghdad was completely destroyed during a US air raid on the Iraqi capital this morning, Al Jazeera correspondent reported .

IRAQ-CONFLICT: Big explosions rock Baghdad this morning

Big explosions, resulting from US aircraft bombardment, rocked the Iraqi Information Ministry this morning, Al Jazeera satellite TV channel reported .

IRAQ-CONFLICT: Iranian city shaken by coalition bombardments

Four explosions from bombs dropped by coalition warplanes inside Iraq shook the border city of Qasre-Shirin, in the western Iranian province of Kermanshah, early Tuesday.

IRAQ-CONFLICT: Strategic Israel-US alliance could turn into tactical one

In a lecture at the United Arab Emirates (UAE) Zayed Centre for Coordination and Follow-up (ZCCF), Dr. Gad Taha, a political analyst, professor of modern and contemporary history, and former Dean of Faculty of Arts/Ain Shams University, said that the strategic alliance between Israel and the United Sates could turn during the US war on Iraq into a tactical alliance to embody and translate into reality the Jewish goals to dominate the Palestinians lands and to transfer the Palestinians to areas in northern Iraq, according to a ZCCF press release.

LEBANON: Explosion in a McDonald’s restaurant in Beirut

At least one person was injured when an explosion ripped through one of MacDonald's terminals near the Lebanese capital Beirut on Saturday.

IRAQ-CONFLICT: Where are we going? asks UAE paper

The United States' deliberate silence on how it plans to return Iraq to the Iraqi people after the war is a serious problem, conceived a United Arab Emirates (UAE) English daily.

IRAQ-CONFLICT: Truth is the victim of war, says UAE paper

Truth is the biggest loser in wars and continues to be so in the US war on Iraq, according to a major United Arab Emirates (UAE) Arabic newspaper.

IRAQ-CONFLICT: Iraq reports hundreds of US casualties near Baghdad airport

Hundreds of US soldiers have been killed in action in the area of Saddam Hussein airport, the Russian Itar-Tass agency quoted a statement circulated by the command of the Iraqi army on Saturday as saying.

NORTH KOREA: Pyongyang says it will ignore UN resolutions on nuclear program

North Korea today warned it would ignore any UN resolution over nuclear weapons development as the Security Council prepared to discuss the international standoff over the issue.