A roadside bomb exploded on a main Baghdad thoroughfare early today, wounding three civilians, the Interior Ministry said.

US troops clashed with insurgents late today in the central Iraqi city of Ramadi, injuring at least seven people, witnesses and hospital officials said.

A mortar round killed at least six people and injured 35 others when it landed in a busy Baghdad street today.

A Lebanese businessman was freed today after about one week in captivity in Iraq, his father said.

Four Lebanese truck drivers are missing in Iraq are are believed to have been kidnapped

Four people have been reported killed and about 20 wounded in Iraq today.

Comprehensive testing has confirmed the presence of the chemical weapon sarin in the remains of a roadside bomb discovered this month in Baghdad, US government officials said.

Three more American soldiers have died in the last 24 hours in Baghdad as guerilla attacks targeting the occupation forces showed no signs of abating.

An American soldier was killed and four others were injured when attackers opened fire on a US convoy in a Baghdad street, the US military said today.

AFTER a two-week siege, British tanks shot their way into the centre of Basra yesterday in a bid to stamp out dogged resistance in Iraq’s second city from paramilitary fighters loyal to President Saddam Hussein.

IRAQ yesterday said more than 350 Iraqi civilians had been killed since the United States and Britain invaded one week ago, with women, children and elderly people making up most of the victims.