| March 24
0.00. More than 50 people were killed and wounded as a result of US aircraft bombing an area in the Biyare region in northern Iraq.
0.50. According to Iraq, the country's air defense forces shot down 5 enemy aircraft and 2 helicopters.
1.10. The population of Basra, left without water and electricity, faces a humanitarian catastrophe. The power supply to the Basra water intake station, which supplies water to 2 million people, has been disrupted.
2.00. Unknown people fired at the Russian Embassy in Baghdad. None of the embassy employees were injured.
2.30. Iraq has stated its intention to comply with the Geneva Convention regarding prisoners of war.
2.40. Four US Navy ships in the Persian Gulf off the coast of Iraq collided with floating mines and were damaged, CNN reported, citing the Iraqi command.
3.20. A new raid on Baghdad has begun. Powerful explosions are again heard in the center of the Iraqi capital.
4.20. The US military seized a “suspicious” chemical plant in southern Iraq near the city of Najaf.
4.20. A coalition missile exploded in Turkey; no one was injured as a result of the explosion.
5.30. 2 Britons have gone missing in southern Iraq.
7.00. US-British aircraft carried out new bombing attacks on the city of Mosul in northern Iraq.
7.20. US Air Force Apache helicopters fired missiles at positions of the Iraqi Republican Guard near the city of Karbala, 100 km from Baghdad.
10.30. The US launched an offensive in Northern Iraq.
11.00. Hussein made another appeal to the nation, highly appreciating the actions of the Iraqi army in the war against the occupation forces.
11.30. Iraq says its air defenses shot down a coalition plane over Baghdad.
12.00. The Iraqis captured an American Apache helicopter. Iraqi villagers reportedly shot down two helicopters with rifle fire. The US confirmed the loss of only one helicopter.
13.00. Over the past 24 hours, 62 civilians were killed in Iraq and more than 400 were injured. The losses of coalition troops over the past 24 hours, according to the Iraqi side, amounted to 30 killed and 14 wounded. 12 people were missing, 6 were captured.
15.05. A new bombing of Baghdad began.
17.15. The siege of the strategically key city of Nasiriyah continues.
19.40. Russian Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov did not rule out that military actions in Iraq could “go beyond the scope of a regional conflict.”
20.15. Iraqi air defenses shot down two unmanned reconnaissance aircraft, an Iraqi army spokesman said.
20.30. Russian President Vladimir Putin, in a telephone conversation with US President George W. Bush, spoke of the need to prevent a humanitarian catastrophe in Iraq.
21.15. Russian President Vladimir Putin and Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan spoke in a telephone conversation in favor of an early cessation of hostilities in Iraq.
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