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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Twenty years ago, on Nov. 7, 2004, a coalition assault force of more than 15,000 troops, mostly Marines, launched a massive attack ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. It’s been two decades since the Battle of Fallujah, the bloodiest battle of the ...

Over Two decades later, the battles of Fallujah remain etched in the collective memory of those who served, a grim testament to the brutality of urban warfare and the enduring cost of freedom.

In Fallujah, US troops are engaged in the battle Secretary Rumsfeld says will -tip- Iraqi opinion toward democracy once and for all. But while the US wants an Iraqi face on the action, Iraqi troops ...

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 ...

The Navy's civilian leader has announced that one of the future America-class amphibious assault ships will be named USS Fallujah -- an honor that has been quietly discussed in Navy circles for years.

The U.S. Navy is naming a future America-class landing helicopter assault (LHA) ship the USS Fallujah, a nod to two of the bloodiest battles of the Iraq War. "It is an honor to memorialize the Marines ...

AMERICAN AND Iraqi troops appeared to be on the way to success yesterday in their operation to retake control of Fallujah from anti-government insurgents and foreign terrorists who have held the city ...

The commandant of the Marine Corps, Gen. David Berger, said that the battle "is, and will remain, imprinted in the minds of all Marines. The Navy's civilian leader has announced that one of the future ...

Update RequiredTo play audio, update browser or Flash plugin. One of the first Marines I met at Camp Pendleton last Friday didn’t fight in the Battle of Fallujah in ...