AP - Authorities are awaiting identification of the remains of three bodies in Iraq, a U.S. law enforcement official said Tuesday, a day after the remains of two kidnapped contractors were identified.
Time.com - Iraqi troops launch a major offensive in the southern city, where the government has had little influence in recent years
McClatchy Newspapers - BAGHDAD? With Iraq's top leaders directing the battle, Iraq's army and national police pressed a major operation Tuesday to wrest control of the southern port city of Basra from the Shiite Mahdi Army militia. Fighting between government forces and the militia quickly spread through Iraq's south and into Baghdad.
Reuters - International visitors flying into New
York now face being identified by all ten fingerprints, part of
a heightened security system aimed at identifying potential
terror suspects and visa fraud, officials said on Tuesday.
AP - As of Tuesday, March 25, 2008, at least 4,001 members of the U.S. military have died since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count. The figure includes eight military civilians. At least 3,257 died as a result of hostile action, according to the military's numbers.
AP - The Bush administration told a seemingly receptive Supreme Court on Tuesday that the U.S. military should be allowed to turn over two Americans to the Iraqi government for criminal proceedings.
AP - The Bush administration is asking Congress to exempt Libya from a law allowing terrorism victims to seize the U.S. assets of state sponsors of the attacks.
AP - Iraq's leaders faced their gravest challenge in months Tuesday as Shiite militiamen loyal to anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr battled for control of the southern oil capital, fought U.S. and Iraqi troops in Baghdad and unleashed rockets on the Green Zone.
Reuters - The United States on Tuesday
questioned the value of monthly public meetings of the U.N.
Security Council on the Middle East, saying the angry speeches
delivered often made the problem worse.
Reuters - Israel said on Tuesday it would allow
up to 600 members of a Palestinian security force trained in
Jordan under a U.S. program to be deployed in a West Bank city
once considered a hotbed of militant activity.