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Today British forces made further advances on Basra, taking a strategic target, the Basra technical institute, right on the southern edge of the city, previously to taking this position, pro Saddam militia had used it to fire RPG's and mortar rounds…

Iraqi villagers mobbed a truck filled with water and food near the town of Safwan, as the delivery of humanitarian aid from Kuwait resumed in southern Iraq. An estimated 20 tons of boxes containing bottled water, rice, lentils, tea and other staples…

Iraqi civilians flee Basra as war for control for the city rages, in between tank battles and heavy shelling.

Iraqi villagers mobbed a truck filled with water and food near the town of Safwan, as the delivery of humanitarian aid from Kuwait resumed in southern Iraq. An estimated 20 tons of boxes containing bottled water, rice, lentils, tea and other staples…

British troops, surrounded by the sound of intense artillery battles, man the last check point before the city of Basra checking people fleeing and those who try to re-enter the city looking for relatives. British soldiers checking the identification…

As fighting for the control of Basra rages on thousands of Iraki civilians flee the city, where lack of fresh water and food make conditions unsustenable. British troops lay siege to the city and also man several checkpoints around it's perimeter,…

IRAQ, SEPTEMBER 28. Iraqi policemen from a special investigative unit search and apprehend Iraqi fedayeen fighters, September 28, 2003, at a house in a rural area north of Baghdad. A total of 11 fedayeen were captured in two nearby locations. Police…

IRAQ, SEPTEMBER 28. US Army soldiers from the 2nd Battalion, 3rd Field Artillery Regiment (1st Armored Division based in Weisbaden, Germany), search one of nine houses, September 29, 2003, during a night attack of a nearby Baghdad neighborhood,…

BAGHDAD, IRAQ, APRIL 9, 2003. US Marines from the Marine 1st Division help Iraqi civilians take down a Saddam Hussein statue near the Palestine Hotel, April 9, 2003

SOUTH OF BAGHDAD, IRAQ, APRIL 9, 2003. US Marines from the 1st Marine Division watch as civilians loot new Iraqi Army Nissan pick-ups outside a Iraqi Army military compound 6-8 miles south east of Baghdad, April 9, 2003.