JuneauEmpire.com: Associated Press
Syrian, Lebanese leaders discuss pullback
16 Iraqis killed in insurgent attacks
Italian intelligence officer to be buried
Bolivian president offers resignation


Seattle Post-Intelligencer: War on Iraq
Iraqis set opening for new parliament
Hezbollah mobilizes supporters for Syria
Israel to turn over West Bank town
Group nominates Shiite cleric for Nobel
Iraqis set opening for new parliament
Iraqi Air Force training on U.S. plane
Kurdish Towns Benefit From Iraq Insurgency
Iraqi National Assembly to Meet March 16, Top Jobs to Go to Kurd and Shiite
I'm no Saddam, says Assad


Yahoo! News: War with Iraq
Insurgent Launch Attacks in Iraq; 12 Dead
Guerrillas Attack Iraqi Security Forces, Kill 7
Okinawa-based marines back from Iraq
Bulgaria to decide before end of March on keeping troops in Iraq
Operations stepped up in Iraq's Samarra to find Zarqawi
Iraqi army takes 1st step toward relieving GIs


The US News: Iraq News
Iraq parliament to convene
Kidnapping becomes Iraq's boom industry
Iraqi and US Forces Organize Operations in Samarra
Iraqi National Assembly to meet March 16
A century of dominance in Lebanon
Stark choice for militant Hizbullah
A speeding sedan and a close call for one marine unit
Donors light up the lives of soldiers in Iraq
Syrian troops to begin pullback Monday


From CNN.com
Leaders meet on Syria pullback
Baquba violence leaves 11 dead


From Fox News
Terrorists Kill 16 in Iraq
Gunfire at West Bank Shrine
N. Korean Kids Still Need Aid
Israel to Hand Over Town
Rabbis Plan Protest
Clinton Deferred to Bush '41' on Tsunami Tour
Leaders Mull Syrian Pullout From Lebanon
Minister: Pullout Begins Monday
Hezbollah Rallies to Back Syria
Israel to Encourage Withdrawal
France Expects Speedy Withdrawal
Bush Rejects Partial Pullout


From the Department of Defense
IN IRAQ
New Post Office to Serve Deployed Troops
Nurses Battle Time, Gunfire to Save Lives
Joint Supply, Logistics Program Yields Results

TOP NEWS
IN IRAQ
Soldiers Capture Bomb Maker
Iraq Daily Update
Iraq Reconstruction
Maps
Weekly Progress Report (pdf)

IN AFGHANISTAN
Afghanistan Daily Update
Maps

WAR ON TERRORISM
Waging and Winning the War on Terror
Terrorism Timeline
Terrorism Knowledge Base

MILITARY NEWS
Care, Gear Help Wounded Survive
National Guard, Reserve Update

CASUALTIES
Officials Identify Casualties — Story


Weather
Weather information from The Weather Channel

Iraq
Al Azamiyah Al Basrah Al Hillah Al Karkh Al Kazimiyah Al Kut An Nasiriyah Baghdad Baqubah Mosul Najaf Nineveh Tall Kayf

Afghanistan
Bost/Laskar Ghurian Herat Kabul Qandahar

Kuwait
Al Jahrah As Sulaybiyah Kuwait City


Today in History
161 - Marcus Aurelius becomes emperor.

1774 - British forces close the port of Boston to commerce.

1799 - Napoleon captures Jaffa, in Palestine. He and his troops are responsible for the massacre of more than two thousand Albanian prisoners.

1847 - U.S. General Winfield Scott controls Vera Cruz, Mexico.

1849 - The Austrian Reichstag is dissolved.

1862 - At the Battle of Pea Ridge in Arkansas, Confederate forces surprise the Union army. It will go down as a Union victory.

1904 - The Japanese bomb Vladivostok, in Russia.

1906 - Finland decrees universal suffrage for all of its citizens 24 years of age and older, save for those supported by the government. It is the third country to give women the right to vote.

1918 - Finland signs a treaty with Germany.

1925 - The Soviet Red Army controls Outer Mongolia.

1927 - The Supreme Court rules that it is unconstitutional for a Texas law to deny Negroes the right to vote.

1936 - Hitler violates the Locarno Pact by sending German troops into the Rhineland.

1941 - British forces arrive in Greece.

1942 - Japanese forces land on New Guinea.

1950 - The Soviet Union denies Klaus Fuchs was working as its spy.

1951 - General Matthew Ridgeway leads U.N. forces in Korea in Operation Ripper, in order to straighten out the front lines against the Chinese.

1968 - In Vietnam, the Battle of Saigon ends.

1971 - U.S. planes (a thousand of them) conduct bombing raids on Laos and Cambodia.

1973 - Sheikh Mujib Rahman becomes Bangladesh's first democratic prime minister, winning in a landslide.

Birthdays
1707 - Stephen Hopkins of Rhode Island; justice, chief magistrate, and signer of the Declaration of Independence.

1904 - Reinhard Heydrich, the German SS leader who drafted Hitler's "Final Solution."