Falluja assault 'breaks' rebels
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A top US commander says the assault on Falluja has "broken the back of the insurgency" across Iraq.
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FALLUJAH, IRAQ - A top US commander said Thursday the attack on Fallujah had broken the back of the anti-occupation insurgency throughout Iraq.
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American forces overran the last center of rebel resistance in Falluja on Sunday after a weeklong invasion that smashed what they called the principal base for the Iraqi insurgency.
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US forces battled rebels in Iraq&#39;s western city of Falluja on Sunday as American tanks, armored personnel carriers and Humvee vehicles gathered on a highway on its outskirts, witnesses said.
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American forces stepped up their pressure on the insurgent-controlled city of Falluja on Friday, unleashing an aerial and artillery bombardment of
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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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FALLUJA, Iraq  - Air and artillery strikes shook  the rebel-held Iraqi city of Falluja on Friday night after U.S.  forces, using leaflets and loudspeakers, urged civilians to  leave.
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FALLUJA, Iraq  - U.S. forces thrust at least one  km (0.6 miles) into rebel-held Falluja on Tuesday and were not  far from the Iraqi city's heart, residents said.
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US warplanes pounded Falluja today, as ground troops battled guerrillas on the outskirts of the rebel-held city that American and Iraqi forces were poised to storm.
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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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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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U.S. Marines lobbed mortar rounds at rebels in Falluja Saturday during a five-day-old assault that has caused a "catastrophe" for civilians there and fueled a revolt in Iraq's northern city of Mosul.
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US-led forces thrust at least one km (half a mile) into rebel-held Falluja on Tuesday and were not far from the Iraqi cityâs heart, residents and an Iraqi army officer said.
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FALLUJA, Iraq  - U.S. artillery pummelled 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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U.S.-led forces have trapped insurgents in southern Falluja, Marines said on Friday, the fourth day of an assault that has killed "hundreds" of rebels. Eighteen American and five Iraqi troops have also died.
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FALLUJA, Iraq  - U.S. Marines lobbed mortar rounds  at rebels in Falluja Saturday during a five-day-old assault  that has caused a "catastrophe" for civilians there and fueled  a revolt in Iraq's northern city of Mosul.
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US warplanes pounded Falluja early today as ground forces battled insurgents on the outskirts of the rebel-held city that American and Iraqi forces were poised to storm.