Rumsfeld says civilians in besieged Fallujah were given plenty of ...
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Civilians in the city of Fallujah got plenty of warning to steer clear of the fighting between US and insurgent forces, Defense Secretary
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The military now says 100 percent of the city of Fallujah has been secured by US and Iraqi soldiers. But Marine Colonel Mike Regner told Pentagon reporters in a
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The Pentagon's top general said Thursday that the assault on Iraq's rebel-controlled Fallujah has been "very, very successful," despite suspicions that many insurgents had simply fled before it began.
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A shortage of &quot;up-armored&quot; Humvees in Iraq, highlighted Wednesday by a soldier&#39;s pointed question to Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, is a consequence of insurgent
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The Pentagon&#39;s top general says US-led forces in Fallujah now control about 70 percent of the city and have captured or killed hundreds of insurgents even as tough street battles continue.
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More than 900 residents of Fallujah returned to homes they fled before last month&#39;s military operation in the Iraqi city, on the first day of a program overseen by US and Iraqi forces, the US military said.
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After five days of fighting, US and Iraqi forces are now said to be in control of nearly all of Fallujah, capturing or killing hundreds of insurgents who have used the city as a stronghold for months.
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US warplanes have launched sustained and fierce attacks on the rebel-held Iraqi town of Fallujah, witnesses said. They said explosions could be heard in the attacks, a day after interim Prime Minister Iyad
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Washington: US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has said that US and Iraqi military forces fighting together in Fallujah are &quot;well along&quot; in their task of freeing the Iraqi city from insurgent forces &quot;and they will finish it successfully.
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The US secretary of defence Donald Rumsfeld talks to US marines in a camp near the Iraqi town of Falluja. Photo: Shamil Zhumatov/Reuters.
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As Iraqi officials declared Fallujah liberated, U.S. forces continued intense combat operations aimed at securing the last section of the city.
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MOSUL, Iraq -- US Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld visited wounded soldiers and brought holiday greetings on Christmas Eve amid tight security at a military base in northern Iraq where an insurgent's attack killed 14 US troops and eight other people earlier this week.
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NEW DELHI, India  - Under fire from troops who  complain they are being sent to war in Iraq with inadequate  gear, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld promised on Thursday  that more would be done to protect forces.
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Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld on Monday portrayed the retaking of the Iraqi city of Samarra over the weekend by US and Iraqi forces as a model for the military
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FALLUJAH: US military officials said that American troops have now âoccupiedâ the entire city of Fallujah and that there are no more major concentrations of insurgents still fighting after nearly a week of intense urban combat.
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LONDON -- "Stuff happens!" Donald Rumsfeld once exclaimed in response to a reporter's question about the looting of Baghdad after the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003. "Freedom's untidy," he went on to explain, "and free people are free to make mistakes and commit crimes and do bad things. They're also free to love their lives and do wonderful things, and that's what's going to happen here."
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FALLUJAH, Iraq -- US and Iraqi forces took control of almost all of Fallujah yesterday, nearing military success even as pockets of resistance remained and relief agencies began moving to avert a humanitarian disaster in the city of roughly a quarter-million people west of Baghdad.