FALLUJAH, Iraq (AP) - Down a steep staircase littered with glass shards and rubble, U.S. Marines descended Thursday to a dark basement believed to have been one of Fallujah's torture chambers. They ...

FALLUJAH, Iraq -- Led by a former Saddam Hussein general, Iraqi troops replaced U.S. Marines on Friday and raised the Iraqi flag at the entrance to Fallujah under a plan to end the monthlong siege of ...

Airing on PBS, a new documentary tells the stories of Marines and soldiers in combat during 2004 operations to clear two Iraqi cities of insurgents.

Twenty years ago, on Nov. 7, 2004, a coalition assault force of more than 15,000 troops, mostly Marines, launched a massive attack on the city of Fallujah, Iraq. Over the next seven weeks they would ...

NEAR FALLUJAH, Iraq, Oct. 29 -- U.S. Marines are preparing for a decisive battle in the Sunni Triangle area west of Baghdad, where rebels are using violence and intimidation to extend their influence ...

BAGHDAD, Iraq U.S. Marines launched air and ground attacks Thursday on the insurgent bastion Fallujah after city representatives suspended peace talks with the ...

FALLUJAH, Iraq - U.S. Marines will withdraw from this violence-wracked city and hand over responsibility for pursuing insurgents to a new militia headed by former Iraqi army officers under a deal ...

FALLUJAH, Iraq, April 7 -- Hundreds of Marines inched toward the heart of this embattled city Wednesday, darting across roads and crouching on corners as the echo of mortars and rifles mingled with ...

Throughout military history there are battles that certain units or branches of the armed forces are known for. The Rangers at Pointe du Hoc, the 3rd Infantry Division and the Battle of the Marne, the ...

CEDAR FALLS - There had been five days of heavy fighting between Marines and insurgents in Fallujah, Iraq. It was April 9. Jim and Sandy Burford hadn't heard a thing from their son, Lance Cpl. Clint ...

This article first appeared in the Stars and Stripes Mideast edition, July, 20, 2006. It is republished unedited in its original form. FALLUJAH, Iraq — As any Marine will tell you, Iraq is no walk in ...