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 ...

For several months in April and November 2004, U.S. troops were engaged in some of the heaviest fighting they had seen since the Vietnam War, dropping more than 300 bombs, 391 rockets and roughly ...

FALLUJAH, Iraq — They came on Wednesday to bury the war: clerics and sheiks, children and widows from across this scarred city. In the shadow of an overpass, they waved banners, burned a U.S. flag, ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. It’s been two decades since the Battle of Fallujah, the bloodiest battle of the ...

Rules of engagement. That’s code for what U.S. soldiers are allowed to do on the battlefield, and it’s never simple. So when troops prepped for the invasion of Fallujah, a city filled with rebels ...

BAGHDAD, Nov. 30 -- In a cramped room that has become his refuge, with walls of grimy plaster and sloppy brickwork, a man known as Abu Mohammed sat with his children. It was evening in Baghdad, and ...

Tucker came to Iraq to scout before committing to a shoot, as did the directors of "Occupation: Dreamland," Garrett Scott and Ian Olds. On the second trip, Scott and Olds tagged along to Fallujah with ...