Tariq Aziz, Iraq’s former deputy prime minister and the most visible leader other than Saddam Hussein, was today in the hands of US forces.

US SECRETARY of State Colin Powell said yesterday the United States had concerns about the policies of Iran and Syria but it had no "war plan" to attack them or other nations.

TWO of television’s marquis journalists were dismissed from high-profile reporting assignments in Iraq yesterday, chastised for allegedly breaking ironclad, if sometimes unspoken rules that govern reporting in the US-led war there.

IRAQI exiles who want to help the US military in its campaign against Saddam Hussein will report for training this week, defence officials said.