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.

November has repeatedly served as war’s decision month, delivering hinge battles from El Alamein and Guadalcanal to the Somme ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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.

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