Those words were delivered by United States President George W Bush on board the USS Abraham Lincoln on May 1, 2003, as he ...

One of two A-10 Warthog planes circles past smoke from burning Republican Guard barracks in northern Baghdad, Tuesday, April 8, 2003. One of the planes was later hit by an Iraqi surface-to-air ...

March 19, 2003. By Anthony Shadid. BAGHDAD, March 18 -- A cool, gentle breeze blew off the Tigris River, drifting over the white-washed walls of the Hawar Art Gallery.

When the U.S. invasion of Iraq began, NPR's Mideast editor Larry Kaplow was a reporter in Baghdad. Looking back now, he writes that the signs and warnings of the chaos to come were all too clear then.

American forces have a near stranglehold on Baghdad and are choking what little life remains in Saddam Hussein’s vile regime, officials said yesterday. Surgically striking inside the Iraqi ca… ...

US Armored Column Makes First Large-Scale Incursion into Baghdad - 2003-04-05 October 29, 2009 9: ... U.S. soldiers surrounding Baghdad have encountered less than expected resistance from the ...

A view of Baghdad after being hit by an American cruise missile during nighttime bombing on March 21, 2003. Most of the photographs that my colleagues and I took on the hotel roof were out-of ...

Baghdad, December 2003: Near the Palestine Hotel, Staff Sgt. Tim Litwin, 38, of Paris, Tenn., pets Lucy, a dog who’s been a constant companion to U.S. troops ever since the fall of the city ...

Iraqi-born filmmaker Saad Salman, in exile for more than 30 years and in France since 1976, puts an unforgettably human face on the plight of Iraq and of refugees everywhere in "Baghdad On/Off." ...

Baghdad, Iraq, Nov. 19, 2003: At Baghdad International Airport, soldiers from the 1st Armored Division pull maintenance on part of the Firefinder radar system, ...

2003 Baghdad Missile Strike: DHL A300 Crew Lands With No Hydraulics. Posted: June 26, 2025 | Last updated: June 26, 2025. Right at the dawn of the Iraq war, an A300 cargo plane working as a DHL ...