21.  A Turkish diplomat and the Arab League secretary-general, Esmat Abdel-Meguid, were expected in the Iraqi capital Wednesday.

22.  A number of Red Crescent officials will fly Wednesday to the Iraqi capital Baghdad to help distribute the aid.

23.  A Syrian business delegation last month visited the Iraqi capital Baghdad to seek export contracts.

24.  A U.N. official accused of breeding locusts to destroy crops left the Iraqi capital Thursday, bound for Jordan.

25.  A U.N. official accused of breeding locusts to destroy crops left the Iraqi capital Thursday, bound for Jordan, the driver of his U.N. vehicle told reporters.

26.  About an hour later, Syrian state television interrupted its regular broadcast to announce that the plane had taken off for Baghdad, the Iraqi capital.

27.  American, British and French warplanes enforce the no-fly zone, which was extended last month to reach the southern outskirts of Baghdad, the Iraqi capital.

28.  Also more than one hundred Spaniards demonstrated against U-N trade sanctions outside the U-N headquarters in the Iraqi capital.

29.  An official said the Emirates society plans to open an office in the Iraqi capital Baghdad by the end of the year to coordinate the distribution of humanitarian aid.

30.  Among those who participated were members of a delegation that traveled to the Iraqi capital Baghdad last month to deliver medicine, baby milk and other necessities.