U.S. Army soldiers from A Company 3rd Battalion 7th Infantry Regiment approach an injured woman who was caught in the crossfire with Iraqi forces over the Euphrates River when the U.S. Army siezed a bridge in Al Hindiyah. The woman, who was near a dead civilian man, was bleeding and apparently shot in the buttock.
An Iraqi man comforts his 4-year-old son at a regroupment center for POWs of the 101st Airborne Division near An Najaf, Iraq Monday, March 31, 2003. The man was seized in An Najaf with his son and the U.S. military did not want to separate father and son.
President Bush walks across the South Lawn of the White House to the Oval Office as he returns to Washington, Monday, March 31, 2003, after traveling to Philadelphia where he praised the U.S. Coast Guard for its homeland security role.
Smoke billows from a building hit during an air raid by coalition forces in Baghdad.
A U.S. soldier looks through a pair of binoculars as a fire in the Rumeila oil field burns in the background, in southern Iraq.
A young Iraqi girl looks out from behind two sheets of corrugated iron in Umm Qasr, southern Iraq, March 31 2003.
Smoke billows from a large explosion that rocked Baghdad, Iraq, during air raids.
U.S. Army soldiers search an Iraqi police station in Al Hindiyah, Iraq Monday, March 31, 2003. The Army's Task Force 4-64, part of the 3rd Infantry Division, took a strategic bridge over the Euphrates River at Al Hindiyah in it's campaign to move north towards Baghdad.
A United States Marines CH-46E Sea Knight helicopter with the 3rd Marine Air Wing's HMM 268th helicopter unit, passes over a herd of camels as it heads back to base after dropping off some troops at a forward position in Iraq.
Discarded Iraqi gas masks lie just as they were found by British forces in Basra, Monday March 31, 2003. The net was closing on Saddam loyalists in the city of Basra Monday in the wake of the biggest offensive so far in Iraq by Royal Marine commandos. By nightfall Sunday, around 600 Royal Marines from 40 Commando had taken up a consolidation position in a suburb.
A U.S. army multiple rocket launcher lights up the desert as it fires towards Iraqi targets, from a position in the desert of central Iraq.
An F/A-18 Hornet pilot prepares for take off from the USS Harry S. Truman for a misison over Iraq at sunrise.
Iraqis ride camels as the Rumeila oil plant burns. Only seven wells were ignited at the Rumeila field by explosives the U.S. military says were set by Iraqis - a far cry from the more than 700 oil wells retreating Iraqi forces damaged or destroyed in Kuwait in the first Gulf War.
A Kurdish militiaman uses his binoculars to watch the bombing of Iraqi positions in the outskirts of Kalak, about 20 miles east of the strategic city of Mossul. Coalition aircraft pounded Iraqi positions in Kalak, at the border between Iraq proper and parts of the country held by minority Kurds.
A U.S. Navy F-14 is refueled airborne from a KC 10 plane over Turkey, before going on a mission over Iraq. The refueling plane belongs to the 409th U.S. Air Force Expeditionary Group, based in Burgas, Bulgaria.
A television journalist files his report inside a communications building reportedly hit during a bombing in Bagdhad.
A tired U.S. Marine from the 15th Expeditionary Unit takes a short break in the desert near the southern Iraqi city of Nasiriyah.
M-1A1 Main Battle Tanks from the 15th Expeditionary Unit take up positions at an Iraqi military base in the desert near the southern city of Nasiriyah.