An unidentified U.S. soldier stands guard as oil workers put out an oil well fire at Rumailah oil field in southern Iraq. Kuwaiti and American firefighters are putting out the blazes at six oil wells that were sabotaged, reportedly by retreating Iraqi forces.
British soldiers check Iraqi men who were fleeing from the southern city of Basra.
A British soldier writes as he sits in the middle of ruins in Basra, southern Iraq. The net was closing on Saddam loyalists in Basra in the wake of the biggest offensive so far in Iraq.
Flight deck catapult operators give the signal to launch an F/A-18C Hornet during night operations on the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Kitty Hawk in the Gulf.
Seen through a tapestry with Arabic script, U.S. Army soldiers aim towards a bridge over the Euphrates River which the U.S. Army seized in Al Hindiyah, Iraq. The Army's Task Force 4-64, part of the 3rd Infantry Division, took the bridge as part of its campaign to move north towards Baghdad. Translation of the Arabic is: "Passed away and gone to God's mercy, Arkan Attiya Kadhum."
In this image from video, smoke rises from a section of Baghdad, Iraq.
Abandoned Iraqi T55 tanks are seen on a roadside after bombings by coalition forces in Iraq.
Soldiers from the light infantry and 2nd Royal Tank Regiment stand by ammunitions inside the Zubayr Primary School in Zubayr, south of Basra, after they discovered an arms cache in the school. British forces said normal life was resuming in Zubayr after its troops took control there, but Basra city remained in the grip of paramilitary forces. A portrait of Saddam Hussein stands on the pile of ammunitions.
Baghdad is obscured by smoke from oil fires set by Iraqis as a shield against incoming missiles and air raids.
Gurkha soldiers escort four Iraqi men stopped in a vehicle west of Basra, Iraq, to a waiting helicopter. Two Puma helicopters were sent out to intercept the vehicle with four Iraqi men on board. The men were taken off for questioning.
An Iraqi civilian loots a destroyed 120 mm cannon left by the Iraqi army when they withdraw from the area on the outskirts of Basra, southern Iraq.
An abandoned Iraqi T55 tank is secured and inspected by soldiers of the British 3 Regiment Army Air Corps, 16 Air Assault Brigade. American soldiers on the road to Baghdad are engaged in heavy fighting with Iraqi forces loyal to Saddam Hussein, while the U.S.-led coalition launched missiles toward Baghdad and the holy Shiite Muslim city of Karbala.
A Marine of the 3rd Battalion, 4th Regiment, forces a handcuffed and blindfolded Iraqi soldier to the ground before searching him at a detention center near the town of Diwaniyah in south central Iraq.