2:33 CST U.S. artillery units in Kuwait reportedly continue to pound Iraqi border posts. U.S. forces also have reportedly employed ATACMS surface-to-surface missiles in the bombardment.

Air raid sirens are going off in Mosul in northern Iraq, Al Jazeera has reported.

The U.S. 101st Airborne has pulled out of Kabals into Tactical Assembly Areas closer to the border in northern Kuwait.

Kirkuk has been surrounded by armed Iraqi forces, Kurdish forces report. However, It appears as if the forces might be prepared to retreat, according to Kurdish soldiers at a checkpoint in Chamchamal.

2:13 CST U.S. and allied forces have requested that two Kurdish parties -- the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan and the Kurdistan Democratic Party -- mobilize their armies and join the coalition combat efforts.

U.S. and British forces have taken the Iraqi town of Safwan on the Kuwaiti-Iraqi border, west of Umm Qasr, Al-Arabia television reports.

Orange flames have been seen in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk. They appear to be coming from the Kurdish rebel positions in the town of Chamchamal. Kurdish fighters were not able to determine whether the flames were from a 3-week-old fire in the oil field, or if another well has caught on fire.

Spanish Prime Minister José María Aznar dispatched 900 troops to the Gulf on March 20 to take part exclusively in humanitarian missions. A Spanish frigate, the Reina Sofia, and the hospital warship Galicia left the naval base of Rota in the Atlantic. They are expected to reach the Gulf in two weeks. They are taking an advanced medical team and specialists in nuclear, biological and chemical attacks to Iraq to support U.S. and British combat troops.

Iraqi radio reports that Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's home in Baghdad has been hit by U.S. bombs.

1:55 CST Qusai Hussein -- son of Saddam Hussein and a prominent military official -- and other Iraqi leaders, might have been killed in a U.S. attack on Baghdad, Kuwait's state-run KUNA news reports, citing Iraqi opposition officials.