Inside Fallujah's war
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FALLUJAH, Iraq -- Captain Paul Fowler sat on the curb next to a deserted gas station. Behind him, smoke rose over Fallujah. His company of tanks and Bradley Fighting Vehicles had roamed the eastern third of the city for 13 days, shooting holes in every building that might pose a threat, leaving behind a landscape of half-collapsed houses and factories ...
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Inside the city during heavy fighting between the U.S. and the insurgent forces of Moqtada Sadr
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NEAR FALLUJAH, Iraq -- The skies over Fallujah are so crowded with US military aircraft that they are layered in stacks above the city, from low-flying helicopters and swooping attack jets to a jet-powered unmanned spy drone that flies above 60,000 feet.
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BAGHDAD -- US soldiers battled insurgents northeast of Baghdad yesterday in clashes that killed more than 50 people. Some guerrillas were said to be ''fighting to the death&quot; inside Fallujah, where American forces struggled to clear pockets of resistance.
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FALLUJAH, Iraq : US troops and insurgents battled on the edge of the rebel-held Iraqi city of Fallujah after deadly night-time air raids and nine policemen were killed in an ambush south of the capital.
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A tank fires a round into a building in this TV image as US troops, along with Iraqi forces, powered their way into the center of the insurgent stronghold of Fallujah, Iraq, on Tuesday, Nov. 9, 2004, overwhelming
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FALLUJAH, Iraq -- Staff Sergeant Jason Laser's unit was letting loose with everything it had against a single rebel holed up in a house in the southern part of this city. Tanks were firing shells, and US soldiers were strafing the building with machine-gun fire to get at the insurgent.
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US troops have found a massive weapons cache in the former rebel stronghold of Fallujah. As the grim toll in the fight for the ruined city passed 2000, Iraqi soldiers combing
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Our position is: The Fallujah operation marks the start of a campaign to take control of Iraqi cities from guerrillas. The US-led military offensive under way in Fallujah against Iraqi insurgents was long overdue.
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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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As fighting winds down, U.S. troops face an even more difficult mission in Fallujah &#151; winning the people's allegiance. Planners want to make sure the Fallujah battle doesn't mimic the U.S.-led invasion: a well-executed military assault followed by a flawed occupation.
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HOSTAGE slaughterhouses have been discovered in the heart of Fallujah by coalition troops, the Iraqi government said last night. Westerners are believed to have been held in them before being
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U.S. Marine infantrymen fought with insurgents in Fallujah on Thursday as warplanes and tanks bombarded guerrilla positions in the heaviest fighting here in weeks. The clashes raged as nearly 1,000 residents returned to the devastated city for the first time since U.S. troops drove out most of the militants last month.
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FALLUJAH, Iraq -- US forces have seized control of up to 70 percent of this rebel stronghold, US and Iraqi officials said yesterday, as American and Iraqi troops battled insurgents along the city's main street and confronted isolated pockets of gunmen who had slipped back behind US lines.
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Three US troops have died and 14 more have been wounded in the last 12 hours in Fallujah. Five US troops have died since the offensive against Iraqi militants in the city began.
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A deserted street in the western part of Fallujah, Iraq, Saturday, Nov. 13, 2004. About 80 percent of the city was said to be under US control, with insurgents pushed into a narrow corner.
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The battle between US and Iraqi forces and insurgents in Fallujah is one of the most important of the war. The offensive will probably bring the heaviest urban fighting since Vietnam, but Iraqi officials hope