Key war developments

Published: Wednesday, April 2 2003 10:57 a.m. MST

American troops on Tuesday rescued Army Pfc. Jessica Lynch, who had been held as a prisoner of war in Iraq since she and other members of her unit were ambushed March 23, the Defense Department announced

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U.S. ground forces charged from two directions in the south into the "Red Zone," the daunting bastion of Iraqi resistance ringing Baghdad, after battling past elite Republican Guard troops outside Karbala and at a key bridge over the Tigris River

Two U.S. Navy pilots were rescued Tuesday when their F-14 Tomcat crashed in southern Iraq, the Navy said.

U.S. forces battled Republican Guard troops late Tuesday around the holy city of Karbala, the first major ground fighting with Saddam Hussein's top forces

Recent intelligence indicates that al-Qaida may be recruiting and training women to carry out terror attacks, trying to regain an element of surprise for a network thinned by arrests, the FBI says

In a move highlighting the rift between Washington and Ankara, the United States is withdrawing warplanes from a Turkish air base and is sending them to the Persian Gulf for the war, U.S. officials said Tuesday.

U.S. Marines waged a firefight against Iraqi forces in and around Diwaniyah, killing up to 90 Iraqis and taking at least 20 prisoners.

British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw called for a U.N.-sponsored international conference to choose Iraq's new leaders, and said reconstruction of the country is likely to take years.

The U.S. military said it was investigating the shooting deaths of at least seven Iraqi women and children by U.S. troops at a checkpoint in southern Iraq a day earlier.

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