Gunmen opened fire on jeeps carrying Portuguese journalists in southern Iraq today, wounding a reporter in the leg.

America's most senior military official has apologised for two United States "friendly fire" incidents which have killed three British soldiers.

US marines rolled into Iraq tonight as massive explosions rocked Baghdad when the capital came under attack by cruise missiles and bombs.

Orange flames could be seen today on the northern horizon in the direction of the Iraqi oil centre Basra, witnesses on the Kuwaiti border said.

'Coalition' forces stood poised to strike at Saddam Hussein’s regime today as they moved up to the Iraqi border.