US takes back Fallujah but Al-Zarqawi gives them the slip
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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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Fallujah: US troops tightened their grip on Fallujah but clashed with rebels in Iraq&#39;s main northern city of Mosul, where gunmen roamed the streets, and in the capital where one US soldier was killed.
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FALLUJAH, Iraq -- The US military is drawing up plans to keep insurgents from regaining control of this battle-scarred city, but returning residents may find that the measures make Fallujah look more like a police state than the democracy they have been promised.
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Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, whose supporters had allegedly made Fallujah their base, and a militant cleric who was one of his top aides have escaped the US-led offensive on the city, Iraq&#39;s secretary of state for national security, Qassem Daoud, has said.
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US forces battled south through Fallujah&#39;s narrow lanes and alleys Wednesday to take control of 70 per cent of the insurgent stronghold and rebel fighters were bottled up in a strip of land flanking the main east-west highway
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Insurgents tried to break through the US cordon surrounding Fallujah on Thursday as American forces launched an offensive against concentrations of militants in the south of the city.
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MAXINE MCKEW: In Iraq, as US Marines continue their mop-up operations in Fallujah, their commander says the crushing American victory there has broken the back of Iraq&#39;s insurgency.
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US troops declared the operation to free Fallujah of militants ``accomplished&#39;&#39; but acknowledged the two most wanted figures in the city - Jordanian terror mastermind Abu Musab al
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US and Iraqi forces have pushed into the western edge of insurgent-held Fallujah and taken control of the city&#39;s main hospital and two key bridges over the Euphrates river.
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Fallujah, Iraq -- US Marines said American forces had taken control today of 70 percent of Fallujah in the third day of a major offensive to retake the insurgent stronghold.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - American forces bombed a suspected hide-out used by associates of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in Fallujah on Tuesday, part of a campaign of airstrikes the U.S. military said has taken a heavy toll on the Jordanian-born militant's terror network...
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The rapid US push into Fallujah has come without the sort of fateful showdown that would break the back of the insurgency. In fact, advance US and Iraqi
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Fallujah - The United States military launched two air strikes on the rebel-held city of Fallujah on Tuesday, flattening two buildings which the military described as hideouts for Iraq&#39;s most wanted insurgent, Abu Mussab al-Zarqawi.
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FALLUJAH: US and Iraqi troops have encircled the rebel city of Fallujah in the hunt for Abu Mussab al-Zarqawi but locals are adamant Iraq&#39;s most wanted man is not there.
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The US-Iraqi military campaign on Iraq&#39;s once rebel-held city of Fallujah, which claimed the lives of over 50 US troops, is a double-edged sword
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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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BAGHDAD, Iraq Sept. 28, 2004 - American forces bombed a suspected hide-out used by associates of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in Fallujah on Tuesday, part of a campaign of airstrikes the US military said has taken