The publicly supporting coalition

ALBANIA
Offered to send troops in a largely symbolic gesture.

AUSTRALIA
Sent 2,000-strong force of elite SAS troops, fighter jets and warships to the Gulf.

BAHRAIN
Headquarters of the U.S. Fifth Fleet.

BRITAIN
Washington's chief ally on Iraq has sent or committed 45,000 military personnel, planes and warships.

BULGARIA
Offered use of airspace, base and refueling for U.S. warplanes; sent non-combat troops specializing in chemical and biological warfare decontamination.

CROATIA
Airspace and airports open to civilian transport planes from the coalition.

CZECH REPUBLIC
Sent non-combat troops specializing in chemical warfare decontamination in response to U.S. request.

DENMARK
The government decided to take part in the military action with a submarine and a corvette and a medical team.

GERMANY
Despite opposition to a war on Iraq, has chemical warfare decontamination specialists in Kuwait.

HUNGARY
Hosts a U.S. base where Iraqi exiles are trained for possible post-war administrative roles.

ITALY
Offered logistical help and use of military bases and ports under long-standing NATO commitments.

JORDAN
Opened its airspace to coalition planes; hosts U.S. troops carrying out search and rescue operations in western Iraq and manning a Patriot anti-missile defense system.

KUWAIT
Hosts coalition forces massed for an invasion.

LATVIA
Government has decided to ask parliament to authorize the deployment of a small number of troops.

OMAN
Base for U.S. planes used in Afghanistan, but says will play no role in a war against Iraq.

POLAND
To deploy up to 200 troops in the Gulf region, which will perform a non-combat role supporting any U.S.-led offensive.

PORTUGAL
Made available NATO air bases and an air base in the mid-Atlantic Azores islands.

QATAR
Hosts a mobile HQ for U.S. Central Command; allowed Washington to expand an airfield to handle more combat jets.

ROMANIA
Airspace and a base open to U.S. warplanes; sent non-combat specialists in chemical decontamination, medics, engineers and military police in response to a U.S. request.

SAUDI ARABIA
U.S. and British planes use its Prince Sultan Air Base to enforce a "no-fly zone" over southern Iraq.

SLOVAKIA
Sent non-combat troops specializing in chemical warfare decontamination in response to a U.S. request.

SPAIN
Strongest ally of the United States and Britain. Promised use of its NATO bases for a strike on Iraq. Spain will send a medical support vessel equipped with nuclear, biological and chemical treatment facilities. A back-up frigate and 900 troops will accompany the support vessel in the event of a conflict.

TURKEY
Hosts U.S. planes enforcing "no-fly" zone in northern Iraq. Parliament has rejected a resolution to allow use of airspace and deployment of American troops for an attack on Iraq but the cabinet was to debate the resolution again on Tuesday with a possible parliamentary vote on Wednesday.

UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
Base for U.S. surveillance aircraft and refueling; host to an estimated 3,000 Western troops.

UKRAINE
Agreed to U.S. request that it send chemical warfare and nuclear decontamination experts.

Plus another 15 that do not wish to be acknowledge publicly.

Including France which despite its opposition is supplying coalition troops with chemical and biological detection and decontamination devices and supplies.