SUNNI insurgents determined to derail this weekend's constitutional referendum attacked the largest Sunni Arab political party yesterday, bombing and burning offices and the home of one of its leaders.

IRAQI military and security organisations that supported Saddam Hussein's regime have been officially dissolved and a new defence force "representative of all Iraqis" will be set up to replace them, the US civil administrator announced yesterday.

THE Ba’ath Party ruled Iraq well before Iraqi President Saddam Hussein seized full control and it is likely to haunt Iraqi politics long after he disappears.

LIKE a latter-day Anne Frank, an ordinary resident of Baghdad has emerged as the voice of his beleaguered nation, posting a vivid daily account of life in the Iraqi capital on the internet.

DRIVING night and day, more than 70 American tanks and 60 armoured troop carriers raced 700 miles across rough desert terrain, a bold flanking movement that placed US forces less than a day's march from Baghdad yesterday.