Assault Slows, but GI&#39;s Take Half of Falluja
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Advances in Falluja slowed considerably on Wednesday after American-led troops took control of about half of the city. On Tuesday night
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US-led forces have thrust at least one kilometre towards the centre of rebel-held Falluja despite heavy resistance, officers say. As the fight
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The first displaced residents were briefly allowed back into Falluja, even as U.S. marines and warplanes battled insurgents.
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FALLUJA, Iraq  - U.S. and Iraqi troops battled  through much of Falluja on Wednesday and said they had  scattered rebel forces, although fighting was still intense.
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There&#39;s been much night-vision hype and a lot of huff and puff about this week&#39;s US assault on the Iraqi city of Falluja. But perhaps a more accurate, if accidental, assessment was in the
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FALLUJA, Iraq  - U.S. warplanes, artillery and  mortars attacked areas of Falluja on Monday as diehard  insurgents held out to the last in the week-long battle and  heavy clashes broke out in the Iraqi cities of Mosul and  Baquba.
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Humanitarian efforts are poised to begin in Falluja as US and Iraqi forces battle what some officials say are the last remnants of the insurgency in the western Iraqi city.
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U.S. artillery pummeled Falluja on Wednesday and troops hunted guerrillas still fighting days after Washington said its offensive had destroyed rebel control of the Sunni Muslim city west of Baghdad.
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US troops stepped up pressure on the rebel-held Iraqi city of Falluja on Tuesday, cutting roads and reinforcing positions around the town as jets criss-crossed the sky ahead of an expected assault.
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NEAR FALLUJA, Iraq The US Marine Corps said Wednesday that US forces controlled 70 percent of Falluja in the third day of a major offensive to retake the insurgent stronghold.
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A rebel counteroffensive swept through central and northern Iraq on Monday as American troops struggled to flush the remaining insurgents from the rubble-strewn streets of Falluja.
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Ten U.S. troops and two Iraqi troops  fighting alongside them have died in the assault to take  control of rebel-held Falluja, but senior insurgency leaders  probably escaped the city, the U.S. military said on Tuesday.
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U.S.-led troops battling to take  control of Falluja ran into pockets of fierce resistance on  Friday as aid agencies pressed for access to the Iraqi city to  take food and water to civilians trapped inside.
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Iraqi troops backed by US Marines have seized Falluja&#39;s main hospital, the first step in what is expected to be a major push to retake the city from insurgents, hours after a 60-day state of emergency is imposed across most of the
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FALLUJA, Iraq  - U.S.-led troops battling to take  control of Falluja ran into pockets of fierce resistance Friday  and the United States said it would not stop until all  insurgents in the Iraqi city had been wiped out.
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Resistance dwindled in the last rebel redoubt in Falluja on Sunday, US officers said, but explosions still shook the smoke-wreathed city as an Iraqi
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FALLUJA, Iraq  - U.S. Marines consolidated their  hold on Falluja on Thursday, but insurgents struck back with  attacks in Baghdad and the northern city of Mosul.