Even the dead insurgents lining the streets and alleys of Fallujah were a threat to the U.S. Marines pushing into the Iraqi city two decades ago. Troops shot up the often boobytrapped corpses lying ...

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 ...

My colleague Roger Kaplan recently wrote an excellent review of the PBS documentary, The Last 600 Meters, which is an excellent description of the battles of Najaf and Fallujah during the Iraq war.

In November 2004, U.S. and allied forces descended upon the insurgent-controlled city of Fallujah in Iraq’s Al Anbar province. For roughly six weeks they fought house to house and room by room against ...

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.

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 ...

BAGHDAD — Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi announced the beginning of military operations to retake the Islamic State-held held city of Fallujah, west of Baghdad, in a televised address on Sunday ...

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 ...

Editor's Note: As indicated below, this story has been updated with information received after its initial publication. All these years later, the Marines who survived are still haunted by the ...

FALLUJAH, Iraq -- The Americans are gone from Fallujah, but the "King of Kentucky Chicken Restaurant" is open for business in a bullet-pocked building. The city that suffered some of the bloodiest ...

BEIRUT — Iraqi forces Friday recaptured the strategic city of Fallujah from Islamic State after more than two years, an important victory for the government and a U.S.-led coalition eager to remove ...

Conservative, deeply religious Fallujah also symbolises the support base of Daesh and its precursor, Al Qaida in Iraq Baghdad, Iraq: Iraqi forces’ ability to deal a swift blow to Daesh in the city of ...