A U.S. Air Force B-52 returning from a mission in Iraq is about to be refueled airborne from a KC 10 plane over the Black Sea in a photo taken Tuesday.
A soldier is seen during an intense sandstorm at Camp Viper in the Iraqi desert Tuesday. Iraq often sees sandstorms in the spring, but this storm is exceptional, bringing dust and sand from as far away as Egypt and Libya.
An Iraqi child holds a food parcel distributed by Royal Marines from 42 Commando as they bring the first humanitarian aid to Umm Qasr in Southern Iraq on Tuesday. The Marines are securing the port town so further aid can be delivered.
Iraqi women brandish guns and shout Anti-American slogans near Yousifiya, 20 miles south of Baghdad, on Tuesday. Thousands of U.S. Marines are rumbling toward the city, taking safer dirt roads to avoid cities and towns where they could face resistance.
A statue of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein stands in the middle of an empty square in Baghdad on Tuesday. A fierce sandstorm is sweeping through the region. In Baghdad, visibility is severely reduced not only by the sandstorm but by pollution caused by oil fires set by Iraqis as a defense against U.S. and British warplanes.
U.S. Army soldiers from A Company 3rd Battalion 7th Infantry Regiment cover up during an intense sandstorm which slowed U.S. military progress, near Karbala, Iraq, on Tuesday.
An Iraqi police officer ventures into the streets of Baghdad on Tuesday. More security and police officers are seen around the city, and residents say members of Saddam Hussein's feared intelligence agencies were also posted on the streets.
Iraqis traveling by bus stare at militias manning a sandbag position in Baghdad on Tuesday. Sandbag barriers have been piled up in anticipation of the onslaught of coalition forces closing in on the capital.
Iraqi militias man a sandbag position in Baghdad on Tuesday as a fierce sandstorm sweeps through the city.
A leaflet warning Iraqis not to use chemical or biological weapons is shown at a Central Command news briefing at Camp As Sayliyah in Doha, Qatar, on Tuesday.
A British Army AS90 gun from J Battery of 3 Royal Household Artillery engages Iraqi positions in support of the First Royal Regiment of Fusiliers, outside Basra, southern Iraq, in this photo made available Tuesday.
A wounded British soldier is carried toward a Puma helicopter by members of 1 CS Medical Regiment based near Basra, southern Iraq, on Tuesday. In an about-face, British forces said they would move against militia fighters who blocked them from securing Basra, just as Iraqi forces in the area allegedly began using civilians as human shields.
Khamoo Haji, 52, an Iraqi Kurd, listens to a radio in the cave where he has taken shelter near Dohuk, in Kurdish-controlled northern Iraq. Frightened residents fled their homes when coalition warplanes landed in Kurdish territory to attack Iraqi barracks in the region.
This aerial view released by the U.S. Central Command in Doha on Monday, March 24, shows the Palace Guard Facility in Iraq before and after air strikes.
A member of the U.S. Explosive Ordanance Disposal (EOD) team checks Russian-made mines on an abandoned Iraqi vessel in Kuwait.
Fijian soldiers from the British 2 Close Support Regiment sing hymns at a service for British servicemen.
These chemical suits are not a protection against second-hand smoke. Two soldiers donned the protective suits and waited out an air raid Tuesday near a bunker at their air base in the Gulf.
Not Baghdad. New York. Army National Guardsman Spc. Oliver is keeping watch in Grand Central Station. Security has been heightened throughout the city since the war with Iraq began.
A woman brings flowers to the regimental headquarters of the Black Watch in Perth, Scotland, after the news that Lance Cpl. Barry Stephen, serving with the regiment's 1st Battalion, had been killed in action near Al Zubayr in Iraq. He was the second British serviceman known to have been killed during combat in Iraq.