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

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.

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.

For several months in April and November 2004, U.S. troops were engaged in some of the heaviest fighting they had seen since the Vietnam War, dropping more than 300 bombs, 391 rockets and roughly ...

NEAR FALLUJAH, Iraq, Nov. 13 -- On his first night in the city, Sgt. Aristotel Barbosa slept uneasily on the floor near the door of a vacant house that his Marine unit had taken over. A squad leader ...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Pentagon's top general said Thursday that the assault on Iraq's rebel-controlled Fallujah has been "very, very successful," despite suspicions that many insurgents had simply ...

BAGHDAD, Nov. 30 -- In a cramped room that has become his refuge, with walls of grimy plaster and sloppy brickwork, a man known as Abu Mohammed sat with his children. It was evening in Baghdad, and ...