Analysis: Fallujah assault a double-edged sword
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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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BAGHDAD (CBS) US forces in Iraq continue to pound the rebel city of Fallujah from the air and ground, apparently in an attempt to soften up militants in advance of a major offensive.
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Fallujah calls itself the "City of Mosques" for its many Muslim houses of worship. The city 40 miles west of Baghdad is also the center of the fiercest resistance to the U.S. presence in Iraq.
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US and allied forces battled Wednesday to seize control of the insurgent stronghold of Fallujah, Iraq, facing only limited resistance from &quot;small pockets&quot; of fighters unable
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The massive military operation to retake Fallujah has been &quot;accomplished&quot;, a senior Iraqi official said. Fierce fighting continued in the war-torn city where pockets of resistance were still holding out against US forces.
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Defeating the insurgents in Fallujah is critical in the battle for a free Iraq because &#39;&#39;one part of the country cannot remain under the rule
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The assault on Fallujah could incite violence elsewhere in Iraq, help Islamic terrorists gain followers and further sour world opinion against the United States, but
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An eyewitness account of the vicious battle to retake the  Iraqi city
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FALLUJAH, IRAQ--Lightning may never strike the same place twice, but Iraqi insurgents do, along the endless reed-filled canals and dirt roads that surround Fallujah, in central Iraq.
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It's been two years since U.S. forces cleared out this dangerous western city, the bloodiest urban combat of the Iraq war. But Iraqi soldiers still aren't ready to stop Fallujah from becoming an insurgent stronghold again.
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FALLUJAH, Iraq -- After two days of street-to-street fighting, the US-led assault on Fallujah had wrested at least a third of the city from insurgents Tuesday, capturing the mayor&#39;s office, two mosques, a commercial center and other major objectives in
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FALLUJAH, Iraq -- US and Iraqi forces, facing sporadic but stiff resistance, advanced into the heart of Fallujah yesterday on the second day of a major offensive to wrest control of the insurgent stronghold.
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THE US military has launched two air raids overnight on the rebel-held Iraqi flashpoint town of Fallujah, but it was not immediately clear if there were any casualties.
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There&#39;s been much night-vision hype and a lot of huff and puff about this week&#39;s US assault on the Iraqi city of Falluja. But perhaps a more accurate, if accidental, assessment was in the
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FALLUJAH, Iraq : The US military said it had launched two air raids overnight on the rebel-held Iraqi flashpoint town of Fallujah, but it was not immediately clear if there were any casualties.
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BAGHDAD - Iraq was on the brink of an all-out assault on rebel-held Fallujah yesterday as deadly clashes erupted between US troops and insurgents in the neighbouring city of Ramadi.
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Some question whether it will be enough to quell the violence and worry about the impact of prolonged tours. Amid a spike in violence in Iraqi cities coinciding with the Fallujah offensive, the US military