Expected battlefield deserted
Scores of abandoned Iraqi army trucks in dug-out gun positions but no one at the wheel. Miles of unoccupied bunkers. A massive pile of hundreds of abandoned rifles. More than...
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U.S. routs Iraqi divisions
American forces crushed divisions of Iraq's vaunted Republican Guard on Wednesday as they stormed across the Mesopotamian plain to draw within sight of Baghdad. Marines routed the 8,000-member Baghdad Division...
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...
War dispatches
WITH THE 1ST MARINE EXPEDITIONARY FORCE IN CENTRAL IRAQ--By the dawn's early light, the pigeons still were there. Marines drew much attention last month for a plan to use 44...
Loving a soldier, hating a war
They have established their rituals as they wait for war, the Marine in the tent that heaves in the desert wind and his mother in her elegant condominium near Belmont...
Iraq neighbors brace for flood of war refugees
Nothing official marks the site, but Kuwait has a plan for this bleak plain beside the Iraqi border: a sprawling camp for tens of thousands of Iraqi refugees. From Turkey...
City Hall floats idea for the homeless
For years, the Target Corp. has struggled in vain to squeeze one of its big quirky discount stores onto the chronically cramped island of Manhattan. Now, Target has found a...
Sniper link probed in Virginia shooting
Members of the Washington-area sniper task force were investigating a shooting roughly 90 miles south of the nation's capital Sunday morning, fearing that a shadowy killer who has stalked the...