Iraqi police and soldiers on Saturday launched major raids in a once-notorious insurgent stronghold west of Baghdad.
Donna Zovko will have to wait to travel to Falluja to see where her son died in one of the Iraq war's most infamous attacks.
Three Iraqi police officers were killed Sunday when two roadside bombs went off in quick succession Sunday near one of the officer's home.
The US military removed a soldier from duty in Fallujah after Sunnis complained of a Marine handing out coins that promoted Christianity
A U.S. Marine in Iraq has been removed from duty amid complaints that he was handing out coins with Bible verses at an American checkpoint, the military said Thursday.
Seven U.S. Marines were wounded by a roadside bomb that also wounded two Iraqi police officers and killed a civilian interpreter in the Anbar province city of Falluja Friday morning, according to the U.S. military.
Donna Zovko walks to her son's grave. Tears stream down her face and she begins trembling amid a steady rain. She kisses her right hand and with it strokes her boy's headstone.
Reviving the city's old industrial district is key to making sure al-Qaeda stays out. But does the populace -- and the Baghdad government -- have the will to do so?
Marines in Fallujah with loved ones back home in California find that the dangers have been reversed
Iraqi police and soldiers on Saturday launched major raids in a once-notorious insurgent stronghold west of Baghdad.
Donna Zovko will have to wait to travel to Falluja to see where her son died in one of the Iraq war's most infamous attacks.
Three Iraqi police officers were killed Sunday when two roadside bombs went off in quick succession Sunday near one of the officer's home.
The US military removed a soldier from duty in Fallujah after Sunnis complained of a Marine handing out coins that promoted Christianity
A U.S. Marine in Iraq has been removed from duty amid complaints that he was handing out coins with Bible verses at an American checkpoint, the military said Thursday.
Seven U.S. Marines were wounded by a roadside bomb that also wounded two Iraqi police officers and killed a civilian interpreter in the Anbar province city of Falluja Friday morning, according to the U.S. military.
Donna Zovko walks to her son's grave. Tears stream down her face and she begins trembling amid a steady rain. She kisses her right hand and with it strokes her boy's headstone.
Reviving the city's old industrial district is key to making sure al-Qaeda stays out. But does the populace -- and the Baghdad government -- have the will to do so?
Marines in Fallujah with loved ones back home in California find that the dangers have been reversed
Several Marines who were involved in the November 2004 offensive in Falluja, Iraq, are now the focus of an investigation into allegations that civilians were intentionally killed during the operation, several Pentagon officials have confirmed.
Insurgents embarked on deadly attacks across Iraq on Wednesday, killing 16 people at a police recruitment center in Falluja, an American civilian contractor near Nasiriya and a police officer in Baquba.
Iraq has launched an investigation into allegations -- denied by the Pentagon -- that U.S. soldiers aimed artillery rounds of flammable white phosphorus at civilians.
When the roll call at Camp Falluja commenced on Friday, Marine First Sgt. John Forbes shouted six names. No one answered. The 400 troops mustered at the base's chapel then mourned amid deafening, heartbreaking silence.
Navy investigators have determined a U.S. Marine acted in self-defense when he shot an apparently wounded and unarmed Iraqi inside a Falluja mosque in November, a senior Pentagon official said Wednesday.
More than a year after four U.S. civilian workers were killed in Iraq, a lawsuit against the workers' employer is pending as the company and the plaintiffs contest which court should hear the case.
The helicopter flight from Baghdad to Falluja is only about 40 minutes, over vast stretches of dryland. But the two cities today are very different.
It's been a week since Yassir Ibrahim Mohammad returned here and discovered that his grocery store was gone. He's built another on the corner of a devastated intersection, but laments his circumstances.
The concept of democracy appears to have taken root in the dusty town of Karma, a predominantly Sunni community of 75,000 people about nine miles (15 kilometers) northeast of Falluja.
About 2,200 Fallujans daily come through what the U.S. military calls "Dave's Field," a dusty former soccer field in east-central Falluja that has been turned into one of three humanitarian aid sites in the city.
More than a month after U.S.-led forces conducted a major offensive in Falluja, some residents who fled the city are being allowed to return to their homes, Iraq's interim government said Monday.
U.S. forces have told the Iraqi Red Crescent to temporarily suspend its activity inside Falluja for security reasons, the IRC's general secretary said Monday.
As part of an agreement with coalition forces, the only humanitarian organization in Falluja said Sunday it will temporarily suspend its operations there.
Like most of the hidden horrors in Falluja, this one was contained in what looked like an ordinary home.
Mahmoud Zubari and his family fled their home in Falluja after it was bombed and his 13-year-old son was killed.
Iraqi soldiers have discovered chemical materials in a Falluja lab, while a top aide of wanted terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi has been arrested in Mosul, Iraq's interim national security adviser said Thursday.
Iraqi insurgents in Falluja were storing a huge amount of weapons and explosives in a mosque, U.S. Marines said Thursday.
An ongoing U.S.-Iraq campaign against insurgents south of Baghdad will be very different from the recent offensive in Falluja, a U.S. Marine spokesman said Wednesday.
U.S. forces say they are tracking down the last insurgents in Falluja in a bid to secure the bombed-out Sunni city and enable supplies to reach residents.
Iraq's interim defense minister was quoted by an Arabic-language newspaper Tuesday as saying he cannot guarantee the safety of voters or candidates in the country's elections scheduled for January 30.
Falluja residents emerged from their homes Friday, and described horrific fighting and fleeing from house to house for safety.
An Islamic militant group in Iraq warned Muslims to skip the country's coming elections, and said anyone who runs for office would be branded an infidel and "punished in the name of God."
Military investigators have re-opened the case of U.S. Marine Corps Cpl. Wassef Hassoun after several personal items -- including his military ID and civilian passport -- were found in Falluja, the city where he disappeared in June.
Officers are investigating the deaths of other Iraqis seen on the same videotape that depicted a Marine shooting an apparently wounded and unarmed insurgent in Falluja, U.S. military officials said Tuesday.
The U.N. office for human rights has issued a tough statement about the fighting in Falluja, saying it is "deeply concerned" about civilians caught in the crossfire.
Those insurgents left standing in Falluja are fighting hard and inflicting coalition casualties, as their leader exhorts them to battle on.
Aid agencies said Monday that relief supplies have been blocked from entering Falluja by continued fighting, as U.S. and Iraqi forces continued their weeklong campaign to quell insurgents.
Battle casualties received by doctors at this American military hospital in Germany have more than doubled since the Falluja operation in Iraq began, the facility's commander told reporters Sunday.
Humanitarian efforts are poised to begin in Falluja as U.S. and Iraqi forces battle what some officials say are the last remnants of the insurgency in the western Iraqi city.
U.S. and Iraqi forces have "broken" the opposing forces in Falluja, a U.S. Marine commander said Sunday, but "isolated pockets" of insurgents remain in the restive city -- and have increased their activity elsewhere.
President Bush said Saturday the current U.S.-led Falluja offensive is making strides toward "taking back the city," but warned that as January elections approach, insurgent "violence could escalate" in Iraq.
Humanitarian efforts are poised to begin in Falluja as U.S. and Iraqi forces battle what some officials say are the last remnants of the insurgency in the western Iraqi city.
A new audio recording purportedly from wanted terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi urges insurgents in Iraq to press on with jihad and "burn the earth under the invaders."
As U.S. soldiers advanced into southern Falluja on Friday, violence and combat intensified across Iraq, with battles flaring in Mosul, Baquba and Baghdad.
U.S.-led forces engaged in fierce street fights Thursday in Falluja, part of an operation that has claimed the lives of 18 U.S. troops and five Iraqi soldiers.
Iraqi troops retaking the city of Falluja have found hostage "slaughterhouses" where people were held captive and beheaded, an Iraqi military official said Wednesday.
About 10,000 U.S. and 2,000 Iraqi forces began an assault on Falluja on Monday, aimed at driving insurgents from the city.
The numbers going into Falluja clearly favor U.S and Iraqi forces.
Iraqi soldiers backed by U.S. Marines have staged a key raid, seizing Falluja's main hospital on the western outskirts of the Sunni Triangle city.
Thousands of U.S. and Iraqi troops have streamed into Falluja, beginning an all-out assault aimed at driving insurgents out of the city.
Iraq's interim defense minister Hazem Sha'alan has lashed out at U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan and leaders of other Arab countries during a pep talk for Iraqi troops before an expected assault on the insurgent-held city of Falluja.
U.S. forces awaited orders Sunday to begin their assault on the stubborn rebel stronghold of Falluja, stoked by their leaders to believe in the historical significance of their next mission.
Iraqi troops backed by U.S. Marines have seized Falluja's main hospital, the first objective in a push to retake the city from insurgents, hours after Iraq's interim prime minister declared a 60-day state of emergency across most of the nation.
A company commander of the Iraqi security forces who received a full briefing on the expected Falluja assault is missing from a military base where U.S. and Iraqi troops are preparing for the possible operation.
U.S. warplanes attacked targets in and around the insurgent-held city of Falluja early Saturday, while sporadic gunfire and artillery echoed through the night.
Iraqi interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi said Sunday that he was getting closer to authorizing major military action against insurgents in the restive city of Falluja, in Anbar province west of Baghdad.
U.S. forces launched renewed attacks against Falluja on Saturday, striking targets from the air and clashing with militants on the southeastern edge of the city.
U.S. and Iraqi forces have nabbed a senior member of wanted terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's inner circle during a raid in southern Falluja, according to the Multi-National Forces-Iraq.
Heavily armored, elite British troops will move closer to Baghdad, allowing U.S. forces to redeploy and ratchet up operations against militants in Falluja and other rebellion-stoked cities.
U.S. tanks pounded insurgent positions Sunday in eastern Falluja after airstrikes hit a northern neighborhood where the military said terrorists were operating a checkpoint.
U.S. forces continued to pound Falluja early Friday as part of a significant assault on the Sunni Triangle city's terror network run by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi .
American troops and Iraqi special forces launched a major operation in Falluja late Thursday aimed at disrupting future attacks by insurgents who control the volatile city, the U.S. military said.
An airstrike killed 14 people and wounded 16 during a wedding party, according to hospital officials in the unstable city of Falluja, but the U.S. military said its planes had targeted a terrorist safe house.
U.S. airstrikes in Falluja in the past 24 hours have killed 10 Iraqis and wounded 16 others, including several children, according to hospital officials.
A pair of U.S. and coalition airstrikes targeted suspected militants Saturday in the restive city of Falluja, according to military officials.
A former U.S. Marine commander of forces in western Iraq says he was opposed to the method and timing of the U.S. response to attacks on Americans last spring in the Sunni Muslim stronghold of Falluja.
Seven American Marines and three Iraqi guardsmen were killed by a suicide car bomb Monday as they patrolled on the outskirts of Falluja, the U.S. military said.
A U.S. airstrike targeted two safe houses used by followers of reputed terror mastermind Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in Falluja, U.S. officials said.
A coalition strike Friday in Fallujah might have come close to killing Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the Jordanian-born Islamic militant believed to have ties to al Qaeda, a senior Defense Department official said.
Coalition forces Tuesday night conducted the second strike within a week on a site in Fallujah believed to be a safe house for suspected terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, a senior coalition official said.
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Coalition forces entered the center of Fallujah on Monday, the site of intense fighting between Marines and Iraqi insurgents last month.
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Soldiers from the newly formed Iraqi Army's Fallujah Brigade are conducting patrols as part of the effort to end the standoff with insurgents in the city, a Marine commander said on Saturday.
Fallujah has been ravaged by weeks of violence. Now, U.S. Marines are preparing to reposition so Iraqi security troops can take on a larger role in patrolling the city of 200,000.
Reporting the battle in Fallujah is one of the greatest challenges journalists have faced, according to BBC World Affairs Editor, John Simpson.
A group of former Iraqi generals offered Thursday to build an Iraqi security force that would move into Fallujah, allowing U.S. Marines to pull back from the front lines, military officials said.
For the second day in a row, fierce fighting continued in the mainly Sunni city of Fallujah, west of Baghdad, on Wednesday.
A U.S. gunship attack left a ceiling of black smoke above northern Fallujah late Wednesday, the day before talks aimed at keeping a bloody confrontation between insurgents and U.S. Marines from escalating get under way.
The violent standoff between Iraqi insurgents and U.S. Marines in Fallujah has created an atmosphere of unpredictable danger.
U.S. Marines, backed by helicopter gunships and fighter jets, engaged in a raging firefight Monday with insurgents in Fallujah, a stronghold of resistance to the U.S.-led coalition in Iraq.
Coalition officials said Sunday that they would give the "political track" longer to work in troubled Fallujah, saying the deadline for residents to hand over heavy weapons would be extended until Tuesday.
Coalition military and authority officials, on the second day of talks with Fallujah leaders, are optimistic Saturday that a peace agreement can be reached to stop fighting in the volatile Sunni city.
A videotape showing a uniformed man who identifies himself as a missing U.S. soldier was broadcast on the Arabic-language television network Al-Jazeera.
The unilateral U.S. cease-fire in Fallujah is holding -- barely.
Around 70 U.S.-led coalition troops and around 700 Iraqi insurgents have been killed in fighting across Iraq since April 1, according to U.S. Brig. Gen. Mark Kimmitt.
An anti-kidnapping fatwa issued by Muslim clerics failed to prevent 11 Russian civilians from being abducted Monday in Iraq, and efforts to broker a full cease-fire in Fallujah were reportedly making slow progress.
The deaths of two U.S. Army pilots Sunday and the announcement of eight additional American military deaths in Iraq pushed the total number of troops killed there since Friday to 16, according to U.S. Central Command.
The armed militants who appear to have taken an American civilian hostage in Iraq said Saturday that their captive may face harsh treatment if U.S. forces don't leave Fallujah within 12 hours.
A 10 p.m. ET deadline set by the armed militants in Iraq, who have taken hostage a man who appears to be American, has passed with no word on whether he has been released.
Coalition commanders sent reinforcements to the beseiged Sunni Triangle city of Fallujah on Saturday, as they worked to arrange a cease-fire with insurgents there, a top U.S. military spokesman said.
The U.S.-led coalition is seeking a bilateral cease-fire with enemy combatants in the Sunni stronghold of Fallujah to take place Saturday, the U.S. military says.
U.S. troops fighting Iraqi insurgents have gone through the second deadliest nine-day stretch since the Iraq war began more than a year ago.
The gory images last week from Fallujah, where four American contractors were savagely killed and their burned bodies displayed, served as a stark reminder of the brutality of war.
U.S. Marines fought skirmishes with Iraqi fighters Monday in and around the restive city of Fallujah, closing off the city in response to the killing and mutilation of four American security guards last week.
Military officials are investigating whether the horrific attack that killed four U.S. civilian contractors in Fallujah, Iraq, this week was planned.
Top U.S. officials in Baghdad Thursday decried the killings of four U.S. security contractors in Fallujah, vowed to hunt down the perpetrators and promised to pacify the restive anti-U.S. hotbed.
U.S. officials have reacted with revulsion to the public display of the charred, mutilated bodies of four American civilians shot dead in the Iraqi city of Fallujah.
The mayor of Fallujah was among those called in for questioning in the U.S.-led coalition's probe of a deadly insurgent raid on the central Iraqi town's police station, a U.S. military official said Monday.
At least 20 people died and dozens of prisoners were set free when insurgents stormed a police station and a civil defense compound at dawn in Fallujah, Saturday, Iraqi sources said.
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