Region Responds to Conflict
Images of Iraqis welcoming US troops are matched by concern among neighbours, even in Israel, over the long-term impact of the war.
Images of Iraqis welcoming US troops are matched by concern among neighbours, even in Israel, over the long-term impact of the war.
Embedded journalists are providing only a sanitised version of the war.
Kurds are expecting the quiet of recent days to be broken by the opening of the northern front.
Saddam Hussein is seeking to pull American and British forces into guerrilla warfare and street-to-street fighting.
Iraqis looking for signs of a collapsing regime wonder why the Americans have yet to stop the government television.
Networks' decisions to censor gruesome images of war may violate their legal duties to inform.
The people of Basra oppose the regime but they will not rise up until they are certain Saddam Hussein is falling.
War is drawing ever closer, but for the moment the main concern in Iraqi Kurdistan is clouds.