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 ...
FALLUJAH, Iraq, Nov. 10 -- U.S. and Iraqi forces established control over more than 70 percent of Fallujah on Wednesday, U.S. commanders said, and troops described encountering only small pockets of ...
Iraqi forces supported by U.S. airstrikes advanced Sunday toward Fallujuah and pressed to re-take the key western city from the Islamic State, which has controlled it for nearly two years. An Iraqi ...
FALLUJAH, Iraq, Sept. 12 -- U.S. forces mistakenly fired on American-trained Iraqi policemen who were chasing suspected criminals along a desert road today, killing eight officers and wounding at ...
FALLUJAH, Iraq -- At a checkpoint outside militant-held Fallujah, hundreds of civilians who fled the fighting between Iraqi forces and the Islamic State group huddled late at night in packed ...
NPR — along with seven public radio stations around the country — is chronicling the lives of America's troops where they live. We're calling the project "Back at Base." This is the first installment ...
No date has been set yet for the return of Fallujah's residents - that decision will be made by the interim Iraqi Government. However, officers charged with reconstruction efforts say the flow of ...
Fallujah also underscores the Sunni-Shiite discord that ripples through all levels in Iraq -- and could chip away at Iraq's security networks. That could mean calls by Iraq for wider U.S. military ...
FALLUJAH, Iraq (AP) - A series of explosions and gunfire rocked Fallujah today in new fighting the day after a heavy battle in which U.S. warplanes and artillery pounded the city in a show of force ...
CAMP TARIQ, Iraq -- The Iraqi military's advance into Fallujah was stalled Wednesday by fierce resistance from Islamic State fighters and concerns over protecting tens of thousands of civilians still ...