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 ...
Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi announced the beginning of military operations to retake the Islamic State-held held city of Fallujah, west of Baghdad, in a televised address on Sunday night.
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 ...
FALLUJAH, Iraq — Sanaa Abed has spent weeks in a sweltering tent in a refugee camp, waiting for Iraqi forces to liberate this city from Islamic State militants so she can return home. But the mother ...
US and Iraqi troops are mopping up what-s left of the enemy in Fallujah, and what-s left of Fallujah itself, a city said to be all but destroyed. Meantime, in other Iraqi cities--including Mosul, ...
CAMP TARIQ, Iraq -- The Iraqi military's advance into Fallujah was stalled Wednesday by fierce resistance from Islamic State fighters and concerns over protecting tens of thousands of civilians still ...
Marine Lance Cpl. James Blake Miller of Kentucky grabs a break during the fighting in Fallujah. After this iconic photo appeared in U.S. newspapers in 2004, Miller was dubbed "Marlboro Man." Sgt. Chet ...
Fallujah, Iraq, Jan. 12 (UNHCR) - It's been a slow trickle. Since late December, residents of the former resistance stronghold of Fallujah have slowly come back to find out what has become of their ...
FALLUJAH, Iraq, April 2 (UPI) -- The Iraqi security force known as Sons of Iraq opened its first office in Fallujah Wednesday in a ceremony attended by Iraqi government officials. Faleh al-Dulami, a ...