Last week, 10 Marines were killed in a Fallujah explosion. All were based in the high desert base of Twentynine Palms, Calif. It was the largest loss of life in a single incident for the Twentynine ...

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Jan Bender remembers the moment as if it were yesterday. Taking cover from insurgents, his fireteam had just assembled in the dark in front of a house in Fallujah, Iraq, when the Marines were ...

In November 2004, U.S. and allied forces descended upon the insurgent-controlled city of Fallujah in Iraq’s Al Anbar province. For roughly six weeks they fought house to house and room by room against ...

WASHINGTON >> The Navy’s next amphibious assault ship will be named after the city of Fallujah, which saw some of the bloodiest battles in the Iraq war when U.S. Marines fought al-Qaida extremists in ...

Twenty years ago this month, U.S. Marines began fighting the largest urban battle since the Vietnam War. More than 12,000 American, British and Iraqi troops fought for Fallujah, which had become an ...

FALLUJAH, Iraq (AP) - Down a steep staircase littered with glass shards and rubble, U.S. Marines descended Thursday to a dark basement believed to have been one of Fallujah's torture chambers. They ...

FALLUJAH, Iraq — Iraqi forces took over positions Friday from Marines and raised the Iraqi flag at the entrance to Fallujah under a plan to end the monthlong siege of the city, but a suicide car bomb ...

Seven U.S. Marines and up to 300 Iraqis have died in fighting in Fallujah since Monday. Marines say their progress is slow and dangerous, hampered by fighting an enemy with a better knowledge of the ...