They are Iraqi President ... “The Republican Guard has been defeated in every direct combat with a competent adversary and they do not pose a threat to U.S. forces.” FROM PALACE TO BATTLEFIELD ...

Tonight huge explosions rocked the heart of Baghdad, sending clouds of smoke skywards around the presidential Old Palace ... Republican Guard were their first sustained contacts with the Iraqi ...

Others give layout information of a presidential palace - Jabal Makhul ... on how certain elite units of the Iraqi army - parts of the Republican Guard and the Special Republicans - have been ...

An Iraqi Republican Guard bunker explodes during fierce fighting with U.S. soldiers in the main presidential palace in Baghdad. U.S. troops said they had taken the 2.5-square-kilometer complex ...

The Republican Guard (RG) is the elite force of the Iraqi military. Members of the RG are better trained, disciplined, equipped and paid than ordinary Iraqi soldiers. This said, in terms of equipment ...

Iraq's Strategy Unknown The Pentagon reports U.S. forces are rolling through key areas in Iraq with little sign of Republican Guard units. A week of heavy bombing has weakened some guard divisions ...

Washington, 1 April 2003 (RFE/RL) -- The U.S. military says U.S. ground forces have been waging their first fights with units of Iraq's Republican Guard just south of Baghdad, while coalition ...

According to reports from Baghdad, round-the-clock air raids continued to pound the outskirts of the city as part of an ongoing campaign to break up elite Iraqi Republican Guard units preparing to ...

Dozens of supporters of powerful Iraqi cleric Moqtada Sadr on Monday stormed the Republican Palace, a ceremonial building inside Baghdad's fortified Green Zone of government buildings, a security ...

Today he reports on the U.S. seizure of a Republican Guard compound that appeared to offer evidence that the Iraqi regime had been trying to steadily rebuild its military forces since the 1991 ...