THE US military’s top uniformed officer yesterday made an impassioned plea for allowing gays to serve openly in uniform, telling a Senate panel it was a matter of integrity and that it is wrong to force people to “lie about who they are in order to defend their fellow citizens”.

President George Bush today challenged politicians skeptical of his new Iraq plan to propose their own strategy for stopping the violence in Baghdad.

US President George Bush went to his Texan ranch today to rethink his strategy in Iraq as the US death toll in the country passed that of the September 11 attacks.

In only 12 of 34 cases has anyone been punished for the confirmed or suspected killings of US-held detainees in Iraq and Afghanistan, a US human rights group reported today.

COALITION forces have taken custody of the Iraqi scientist known as ‘Dr Germ’ for her work in creating weapons-grade anthrax, according to Pentagon officials, who said they also had initial field reports that the head of Saddam Hussein’s military has been captured.

HUNDREDS of Iraqi police and security agents searched for a possibly downed coalition pilot yesterday, shooting into the reeds alongside Baghdad’s Tigris River.

America’s hopes of deploying troops along Turkey’s northern border with Iraq have been given a huge boost by the appointment of the charismatic leader of Turkey’s governing party as prime minister.

President George W Bush pledges to dismantle Osama bin Laden's terrorist network piece by piece.