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New Year's Day was a memorable holiday for soldiers at Baghdad International Airport, especially for a married couple reunited for their joint promotion. Chief Warrant Officers Sharon and Cecil Gibbs advanced together to chief warrant officer 3 Jan. 1. Sharon, 1st Armored Division chief of strength management, is stationed at the airport here. Cecil is the chief of supply maintenance for 19th Support Center, 3rd Corps Support Command, Camp Doha, Kuwait. "I could not have asked for anything better," said Sharon, who found out Dec. 11 that the couple had made the selection list together. "It's a blessing to be...

<p>An Indiana National Guard battalion based in Jasper will be stationed in the Middle East more than three months longer than scheduled.</p> <p>The First Battalion of the 152nd Infantry will remain in the region as part of Operation Iraqi Freedom for an additional 110 days.</p>

<p>The United States is leaving an air base in Kuwait it had used in the war on Iraq, saying its presence there is no longer needed now that Saddam Hussein has been toppled.</p> <p>"The mission is accomplished," Ambassador Richard Jones told reporters Tuesday. He said the last of the U.S. forces at Ahmed Al Jaber air base were leaving Tuesday, but did not say where they were headed.</p>

Dan Rather is reporting some sort of explosion inside 101st Airborne tents ... at least six soldiers injured ... no reports of any killed at this moment ... unknown if attack or accident ... developing ...

AMP DOHA, Kuwait, March 22 — Iraqi forces have been repositioning their surface-to-surface missiles and are expected to try further missile attacks against advancing American troops, senior American officials said today. The officials also disclosed that the missiles fired at Kuwait over the past few days have not been random shots but have been targeted, based on Iraqi intelligence about where American units were positioned.Allied warplanes are now involved in an intensive effort to strike the Iraqis' mobile missile launchers before they fire again. United States military officials say they bombed several Iraqi missile launchers last night. But the...

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CAMP DOHA, Kuwait - An Iraqi MIG-25 conducted a daring mission last month when it streaked to the Saudi border at 50,000 feet and then raced back to its base in central Iraq. American officials now believe that the Iraqi plane was on a photo reconnaissance mission, searching for American forces. During the Persian Gulf war, the Saddam Hussein regime was caught by surprise when a United States-led coalition rumbled out of the western desert to outflank Iraq's Republican Guard. So Iraqi authorities appear to have dispatched the MIG to see if there was an allied force similarly gathering somewhere...

CAMP DOHA, Kuwait, March 15 — The American-led coalition that is preparing to topple Saddam Hussein's government is planning for a complex invasion of Iraq to begin even as allied troops are still arriving in the region, senior commanders say. With three dozen ships carrying heavy tanks and equipment for the Army's Fourth Infantry Division waiting off the coast of Turkey because of a political standoff, the military is scrambling to put together a backup plan for the northern front of a war with Iraq. In Kuwait, only a portion of the 101st Airborne Division's forces — equipped with Apache...

CAMP DOHA, Kuwait, March 9 -- Every day new signs of impending war appear. Today brings the disclosure that on Monday all forces poised to attack Iraq will switch to Zulu time, an adjustment often imposed before military operations to keep everyone in sync. The announcement sends the chronologically-challenged -- such as those preoccupied with newspaper deadlines in the Eastern Time Zone -- scurrying to the post exchange in search of an extra wristwatch: 6 p.m. in Kuwait, which is 10 a.m. in Washington, will become 3 p.m. Zulu, which reflects Greenwich Mean Time. The clock is ticking. Power shoppers...

<p>Camp Doha, Kuwait -- American and British commanders say that they are devising a strategy intended to defeat the Iraqi military without completely destroying it, and to limit damage to Iraq's infrastructure.</p> <p>Lt. Gen. David McKiernan, the commander of land forces if the United States leads an invasion of Iraq, said he and other commanders were devising procedures for Iraqi units to signal their intention to stay out of the war.</p>

KUWAIT, Feb 23 (Reuters) - An Iraqi arrested in Kuwait on suspicion of spying was gathering intelligence on U.S. forces massing for a possible invasion of Iraq, Kuwait said on Sunday. Kuwait's interior ministry said the Iraqi man, arrested two weeks ago, had supplied information on Camp Doha, the main military base for U.S. forces in Kuwait, to Iraqi officers. "The spy passed on information about American forces in Doha camp, their numbers and equipment," Interior Ministry spokesman Ahmad al-Sharqawy said. Kuwait is a key regional ally of Washington and is seen as a main launchpad for any U.S.-led...

KUWAIT (Reuters) - An Iraqi arrested in Kuwait on suspicion of spying was gathering intelligence on U.S. forces massing for a possible invasion of Iraq, Kuwait said Sunday. Kuwait's interior ministry said the Iraqi man, arrested two weeks ago, had supplied information on Camp Doha, the main military base for U.S. forces in Kuwait, to Iraqi officers. "The spy passed on information about American forces in Doha camp, their numbers and equipment," Interior Ministry spokesman Ahmad al-Sharqawy said. Kuwait is a key regional ally of Washington and is seen as a main launch pad for any U.S.-led attack on neighboring...

Always First — Always Ready! UNITED STATES ARMY FORCES CENTRAL COMMAND Coalition Forces Land Component Command (CFLCC) Today Forces further North of Camp Doha A United States Army Bradley tank with the 3rd Infantry Division based in Ft. Stewart, Ga., drives past the setting sun after the conclusion of urban warfare training in the Kuwaiti desert Sunday, Feb. 2, 2003, in Kuwait. (AP Photo/Kevork Djansezian) United States Army soldiers from the 3rd Infantry Division based in Ft. Stewart, Ga., run with the mortar tube as they train in urban warfare in the Kuwaiti desert Sunday, Feb. 2, 2003, in Kuwait....