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Coalition forces fired upon a mosque compound in Fallujah that officials said was a safe haven for enemy fighters on Wednesday as U.S. Marines continued their advance into northern areas of the city.
FALLUJAH, Iraq -- U.S. Marines in the third day of a battle to pacify this Sunni Muslim city fired a rocket and dropped a 500-pound, laser-guided bomb on a mosque compound Wednesday, and witnesses ...
Six of the tall mosque towers that punctuate Fallujah's low-rise horizon were badly blasted by U.S. tanks and artillery during the fighting, while football-size holes were punched in many houses ...
An organization of Sunni clerics has offices next to the mosque. That building was also damaged. Fallujah has been under siege by U.S. forces since Monday.
The fighting, which has killed more than 280 Iraqis and five Marines, has seen heavy battles that have damaged mosques and destroyed buildings, angering even pro-U.S. politicians and turning the ...
Iraqi insurgents fought U.S. troops at two mosques in Fallujah and held sway over all or part of three southern cities in the worst chaos and violence since Baghdad fell a year ago Friday. In an ...
During the past two days, more than 500 civilians who hid during the fighting in Fallujah rather than leave their homes have turned up at the school and a nearby mosque, where U.S. and Iraqi ...
Seven years after sieges, Fallujah struggles With their city largely destroyed by two US military assaults, residents of Fallujah continue to suffer.
This mosque was damaged. A damaged mosque is seen in Fallujah, Iraq, after government forces recaptured the city from Islamic State militants, June 30, 2016. REUTERS/Ahmed Saad ...
FALLUJAH, Iraq -- U.S. Marines in the third day of a battle to pacify this Sunni Muslim city fired a rocket and dropped a 500-pound, laser-guided bomb on a mosque compound Wednesday, and witnesses ...
Hundreds of U.S. and Iraqi troops in tanks and armored Humvees surrounded the city of Fallujah on Monday, ready to launch a crackdown on insurgents after a mob killed four Americans and mutilated ...
The worst spasm of violence came immediately after the Askariya bombing on Feb. 22. Shiite militias attacked more than 20 Sunni mosques, destroying one and inflicting damage on six more, according ...