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.

Marines make their way through the streets of Najaf in 2004. (Courtesy Manifold Productions, Inc.) Jan Bender remembers the moment as if it were yesterday. Taking cover from insurgents, his fireteam ...

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

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

“I’ll never forget it,” says retired Marine Justin Rettenberger, 45, of his first day in Operation Vigilant Resolve in Iraq, in 2004 Twenty-seven U.S. service members were killed in the April and May ...

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 ...

Mike Tabura was about to fight in one of America's bloodiest battles when he arrived in Iraq and his wife shared an update of her own Alexandra Rockey Fleming is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has ...