Iraqis, U.S. Hail Falluja Success, Threats Remain
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FALLUJA, Iraq  - U.S. Lieutenant-General John  Sattler declared on Thursday his forces had "broken the back of  the insurgency" in Falluja, but U.S. troops still faced dangers  in the city and guerrillas attacked elsewhere in Iraq.
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FALLUJA, Iraq  - U.S. air and artillery strikes  shook rebel-held Falluja late on Friday after troops, using  leaflets and loudspeakers, urged Iraqi civilians to leave.
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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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FALLUJA, Iraq  - A Red Crescent convoy reached  Falluja on Saturday with the first aid since U.S.-led forces  began blasting their way in five days ago, and U.S. and Iraqi  officials said only pockets of rebel resistance remained.
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FALLUJA, Iraq  - U.S. and Iraqi forces secured  almost three quarters of Falluja on Wednesday, but Islamist  militants struck back, kidnapping three relatives of the prime  minister and taking 20 Iraqi soldiers hostage.
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FALLUJA, Iraq  - U.S. and Iraqi forces punched to  the heart of Falluja on Tuesday, consolidating positions in  Iraq's most rebellious city after a day of fierce combat.
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FALLUJA, Iraq  - U.S. and Iraqi forces captured  almost three quarters of Falluja on Wednesday, but Islamist  militants struck back, kidnapping three of the prime minister's  relatives and killing two dozen people around Iraq.
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U.S. troops have secured control over the whole of rebellious Falluja, a Marine officer said on Monday, with more than 1,000 insurgents taken prisoner.
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FALLUJA, Iraq  - 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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FALLUJA, Iraq  - Thousands of U.S. and Iraqi  troops backed by heavy air support and armor have stormed into  the Sunni Muslim city of Falluja in the second major offensive  in seven months to try to recapture the insurgent stronghold.
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US and Iraqi forces say they control of three-quarters of Falluja after two days of fighting with insurgents.
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US marines today consolidated their hold on Falluja as insurgents struck back against US-led forces across Iraq. Rebels kidnapped 31 Iraqi policemen and launched bomb and rocket attacks on British and Iraqi forces.
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FALLUJA, Iraq  - U.S. troops met dwindling  resistance in the battered Iraqi city of Falluja Thursday, but  rebels hit back with an armed rampage in Mosul and a car bomb  that killed 17 people in a crowded Baghdad street.
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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  - Iraqis who fled last month's  U.S.-led offensive on Falluja began trickling back on Thursday  to check if homes they left behind were still standing -- but  others turned back as fighting continued to rage.
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FALLUJA, Iraq  - U.S. aircraft carried out a third  set of air strikes on the rebel Iraqi stronghold of Falluja,  targeting a meeting of suspected militants loyal to Jordanian  mastermind Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.
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FALLUJA, Iraq  - U.S. warplanes launched sustained  and fierce attacks on the rebel-held Iraqi town of Falluja on  Thursday, witnesses said.