A National Guardsman is facing charges of attempting to give information to the al-Qaida network.

US military officials imposed strict reporting limits on the first journalists to go to the US-run detention camp for terror suspects since the arrests of a Muslim army chaplain and two interpreters.

Lawlessness spread in Baghdad today even as the fighting dwindled to occasional bursts of machine gun fire.

As US technicians prepared to inspect a grounded Navy spy plane, an American military spokesman said today that Washington still hopes to fly home the aircraft damaged in a collision with a Chinese fighter jet.