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.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

NEW YORK – Adam Banotai was a 21-year-old sergeant and squad leader in the Marine Corps during the 2004 invasion of Fallujah, a restive insurgent-held city in Iraq. His unit – which had seven of 17 ...

FALLUJAH, Iraq, -- Thousands of Marines surrounded this anti-American stronghold early Monday in preparation for a complex raid to retake control of the city and apprehend those who killed and ...

Rettenberger — “Rett” to his men — was with Echo Company, 2nd Battalion, 1st Marine Division, and just 24 years old when he led his squad of men still in their teens through the streets of the Iraqi ...

NAJAF, Iraq -- Insurgents and rebellious Shiites mounted a string of attacks across Iraq's Shiite south and U.S. Marines launched a major assault on the turbulent Sunni city of Fallujah on Tuesday. Up ...

After Justin McLeese’s death, his mom, Sharon, worked on building a tomb in his hometown. She called it her “crazy grieving mother tomb” ...

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 ...

Marine veteran Steven M. Lipscomb was overseeing a crew of 17 people at the Rolling Thunder Mine in West Virginia when it ...