Iraqi Republican Guard divisions, arrayed against U.S. forces for a potentially climactic battle south of Baghdad, are a mere shadow of what they once were, according to U.S. military officials ...

During their onslaught against the Republican Guard in the southern approaches to Baghdad, U.S. military commanders had grim words to describe what they were doing to the elite Iraqi forces. “I ...

An Iraqi military communique issued Wednesday reported the first battlefield action by Republican Guard troops, which it said attacked "enemy concentrations" in central Iraq, destroying six ...

Declaring Iraq's Republican Guard divisions are "no longer credible forces," Maj. Gen. Stanley McChrystal told a Pentagon briefing Wednesday that U.S.-led forces moved to within 30 miles of the ...

At the heart of Saddam Hussein's bid to forestall a humiliating defeat in the days ahead are the Republican Guard and two lesser-known, handpicked units that protect the Iraqi leader and his family.

Battling the Republican Guard As US forces edge closer toward the climactic urban combat with the Iraqi Republican Guard, speculation exists on the strength of the forces they are up against.

U."We have reports of approximately 2,500 soldiers of the Iraqi Republican Guard laying down their arms in their confrontation with the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force," he said, citing reports ...

The Republican Guard was dug in and ready for a fight. “At first, the sound of bullets flying and bombs hitting really unnerve a person,” Crosby later told an Air Force reporter.

February 1991, the Gulf War. Republican Guard units defend the flank of the Iraqi army occupying Kuwait. The Battle of 73 Easting was named after a north-south coordinate line (an "Easting ...

U.S. troops are for the first time reporting the capture of several dozen Iraqi soldiers who have identified themselves as members of the Republican Guard. The report comes amidst street by street ...