FOR two-year-old Anna Pribyla, it can be difficult to understand what it means for her dad to be in Iraq.

Coalition rescue teams were searching early today for two US airmen from a F-15E Strike Eagle fighter jet that went down over Iraq.

Air strikes were continuing today over Baghdad as US officials revealed a renewed attempt had been made to kill Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein.

Nearly 90 al-Qaida and Taliban prisoners at Camp X-Ray were still believed to be on hunger strike today, despite a concession by their American guards over the wearing of turbans.