Analysis: The Kurdish-Turkish Crisis
Turkey is pressing the United States for guarantees to block a Kurdish federal entity in northern Iraq.
Turkey is pressing the United States for guarantees to block a Kurdish federal entity in northern Iraq.
Baghdad readies for street-by-street fighting, as Saddam Hussein considers his options.
In the final moments, Kurds are moving back from the front line, remembering past fiascos and hoping this time will be different.
Resigned to their fate, some Iraqis do their nails, some check their property. And some just feel ill.
It's business as usual - by order - for Baghdad's bakers and garbage collectors, but the Interior Minister is showing the strain.
Embedded journalists are providing only a sanitised version of the war.
Kurds are expecting the quiet of recent days to be broken by the opening of the northern front.
Saddam Hussein is seeking to pull American and British forces into guerrilla warfare and street-to-street fighting.
Iraqis looking for signs of a collapsing regime wonder why the Americans have yet to stop the government television.