Fallujahâs empty promise
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As battles go, Fallujah has been a big disappointment to the US military, which had wanted to draw the Iraqi insurgents into a cataclysmic mistake: a âfairâ fight.
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FALLUJA, Iraq  - Resistance dwindled in the last  rebel redoubt in Falluja on Sunday, U.S. officers said, but  explosions still shook the smoke-wreathed city as an Iraqi Red  Crescent convoy waited nearby to distribute relief.
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So, the long-postponed offensive in Fallujah is finally under way, though it&#39;s unclear to what end. Hundreds, probably thousands, of insurgents will be killed.
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FALLUJA was a city under siege last night as Operation al Fajr, Arabic for dawn, began. The hope is that victory for some 15,000 US Marines, soldiers and Iraqi forces, who launched a full-scale attack on the
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FALLUJAH, Iraq - With the battle for Fallujah nearing an end, there are signs of an impending humanitarian crisis among the unknown number of civilians trapped in the city.
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US troops backed by armoured vehicles swept through the virtually empty streets of the northern Iraqi city of Mosul on Wednesday amid an undeclared curfew.
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ELEANOR HALL: To Iraq now and US-led forces are poised on the outskirts of the rebel stronghold city of Fallujah, awaiting the go ahead to launch a major assault on the city, as reports emerge that American and Iraqi government forces have already seized
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - The top Fallujah negotiator in peace talks with the government dashed hopes of resuming talks soon despite his release Monday by U.S. and Iraqi authorities, saying negotiations remain suspended...
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FALLUJA, Iraq  - No food. No water. No help. As  fierce fighting casts a pall of smoke over the rubble-strewn  Iraqi city of Falluja, thousands of Iraqi families remain cut  off from desperately needed supplies.
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FALLUJAH, Iraq : Iraq says the battle to retake the rebel bastion of Fallujah was over, with more than 1,000 insurgents killed, but US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld says the reports are premature, and US commanders say the six-day assault operation
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Full control of the Iraqi city of Fallujah may be just hours away according to a senior Iraqi government official. However, the insurgency in the country is continuing, with US and Iraqi forces battling armed militants in several parts of the country.
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Saddam Hussein had no weapons of mass destruction. While he certainly harbored ambitions to get them, the Iraqi programs to build them had decayed to become mere wisps of what they once were.
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Hundreds of residents who returned to the war-ravaged city Thursday found that the battle of Fallujah was not over. More than six weeks after US forces launched their offensive
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FALLUJAH, Iraq: US airstrikes on rebel-held Fallujah left 15 dead while an insurgent attack in another Sunni Arab town killed 10 more, as Britain and Egypt stepped up efforts Sunday to secure the release of hostages in Iraq.
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US military chiefs said yesterday that they saw no need for the Iraqi Red Crescent to deliver aid inside Falluja because they did not think any Iraqi civilians were trapped there.
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Fallujah. For months it has been a name associated with violence and the restive town has been the hub of anti-Iraq activity. Ask any Iraqi where people are taken and killed
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In all likelihood, US troops and the nascent Iraqi military will storm the rebel city of Fallujah in the very near future. The so-called &quot;City of Mosques&quot; has been under sustained air assault