CORRECTED: U.S. denies Baghdad trench plans
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Corrects online editor's incorrect spelling of Baghdad in   headline
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U.S. and British officials denied trying to bury details of a 'friendly fire' incident on Tuesday after a classified cockpit video was leaked showing U.S. pilots weeping after mistakenly killing a British soldier in Iraq.
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CANBERRA: Australian Prime Minister John Howard refused today to apologise for joining the US-led invasion of Iraq despite a new US report that said Baghdad had no weapons of mass destruction at the time of the attack.
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BAGHDAD : The argument for last year&#39;s invasion was undermined by a US admission that Saddam Hussein had no banned weapons at the time, as US and Iraqi forces pressed their assault on rebel redoubts with a major operation south of the capital.
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Corrects to make clear that U.N. Security Council did not meet on Thursday, paragraph 5
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Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates denied today that the United States is planning for war with Iran, saying that U.S. military efforts are focused on countering alleged Iranian activities against American troops in Iraq.
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LONDON - Prime Minister Tony Blair vigorously denied on Wednesday that he misrepresented intelligence about Iraqi weapons before the war, rejecting growing demands in Parliament to apologize for misleading his country.    Blair again accepted that British intelligence pointing to stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons was flawed, but he insisted he had been right to back the U.S.-led invasion...
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U.S. allies Britain and Australia on Thursday rejected a claim by U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan that the war in Iraq was "illegal" because Washington and its coalition partners never got Security Council ...
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The US military rejects claims that its soldiers abandoned civilian truck drivers during an insurgent attack in Iraq.
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LONDON Tony Blair denies he misrepresented intelligence about Iraqi weapons before the war and is rejecting demands to apologize. The British prime minister tells the House of Commons he can&#39;t say he misrepresented
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WASHINGTON - The White House refused to say Tuesday whether the top U.S. civilian official in Iraq after Saddam Hussein's ouster had asked the president for more troops to deal with the rapid descent of postwar Iraq into chaos...
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The ministerâs comments suggested a longer U.S. commitment in Iraq than had previously been indicated.
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The U.S. military on Thursday denied reports that it had killed al Qaeda in Iraq leader Abu Ayyub al-Masri.
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Contradicting the main argument for a war that has cost more than 1,000 American lives, the top U.S. arms inspector said Wednesday he found no evidence that Iraq produced any weapons of mass destruction after 1991. He also concluded that Saddam Hussein's capabilities to develop such weapon had dimmed &#151; not grown &#151; during a dozen years of sanctions before last year's U.S. invasion.
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WASHINGTON - Contradicting the main argument for war in Iraq, the top US arms inspector reported yesterday that he found no evidence that Iraq produced any weapons of mass destruction after 1991.
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Contradicting the main argument for a war that has cost more than 1,000 American lives, the top U.S. arms inspector said Wednesday he found no evidence that Iraq produced weapons of mass destruction after 1991. He also concluded that Saddam Hussein's ability to develop such weapons had dimmed &#151; not grown &#151; during a dozen years of sanctions before last year's U.S.-led invasion.
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In a sign of confusion over who runs post-Saddam Hussein Iraq, the United States on Wednesday contradicted an announcement by an Iraqi government ministry