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 ...

HARTFORD A 20-year-old Marine from Hartford was killed in fighting in the Iraqi city of Fallujah. Jeffery Holmes was killed on Thanksgiving Day. "Part of you is gone," said his mother, Patti Holmes.

FALLUJAH, Iraq — Trooping past bodies and abandoned weapons, U.S. Marines blasted their way through walls and hammered open doors Friday in the hunt for insurgents in Fallujah. On the Muslim holy day, ...

FALLUJAH, IRAQ — In 2004 and 2005, the Iraqi city of Fallujah was a killing field. Al Qaeda dominated the streets. Insurgent snipers sought to pick off U.S. Marines on patrol. Some of the fiercest ...

Marines say the restive Sunni Triangle, including Fallujah, is a particularly nettlesome environment for the development projects meant to win over Iraq's people. Following an aborted Marine attack in ...

The incident played out as the Marines 3rd Battalion, 1st Regiment, came to the unidentified Fallujah mosque Saturday. Sites was embedded with the unit. Sites' report said the man who was shot to ...

When Mike Tabura shipped off to Iraq in 2004 with the Marines, he called his wife to announce his safe arrival. She told him: “I’m pregnant!” Tabura was 26 and soon deployed for Operation Phantom Fury ...

FALLUJAH, Iraq - Iraqi security forces took over positions from withdrawing U.S. Marines today, and a U.S. official said an agreement had been reached to allow an Iraqi security force to patrol the ...

FALLUJAH, Iraq -- Led by one of Saddam Hussein's generals, 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 ...