War Summary

Noteworthy stuff:

• The Republican Guard's Medina division, massed south of Baghdad, and the Hammurabi division, north of the city, have been targeted by "tremendous sorties," McChrystal said at a Pentagon briefing. He said two other divisions have also been targeted, and that initial assessments show that the Medina division's strength might have been cut in half.

• The Kurdish militia, the Peshmerga, said about 1,000 Iraqi soldiers have surrendered along the northern front line separating Kurdish areas from those controlled by the Iraqi regime.

• Elements of the U.S. Army's 101st Airborne Division seized an airfield on the outskirts of Najaf. The strip will be used by military transport planes once it is cleared of mines, military officials said.

• Fighting also continued around Nasiriya and Samawa, where U.S. officials said 50 Iraqi soldiers and 100 members of a paramilitary group were captured.

• British forces said they've secured the western part of Basra, Iraq's second-largest city

• Clean water began flowing Monday from Kuwait to the southern Iraqi port city of Umm Qasr through a pipeline that will provide about 600,000 gallons of fresh water a day, Brooks said. Iraqi forces had cut off water supplies to the city.

Source:CNN