American Marines storm Fallujah
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American troops have begun attacking the Iraqi city of Fallujah, the operation which required the Black Watch to be redeployed. On Thursday, just days after the regiment moved from its base in Basra, three soldiers were killed in a suicide bombing.
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FALLUJA, Iraq  - The offensive that crushed Iraq's  fiercest insurgents in Falluja in November turned U.S. Marines  into heroes and insurgents into celebrated martyrs.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - In the bloodiest day for the US military in Iraq since May, eight Marines were killed and nine more were wounded yesterday outside Fallujah, where a major US assault on the rebel city seemed imminent.
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US and Iraqi forces have launched a major ground offensive in the rebel-held districts of Fallujah. Backed by thunderous air and artillery barrages, US troops moved through a number of neighbourhoods early Tuesday morning.
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US Marines of the 1st Division leave for a mission outside Fallujah, Iraq, Thursday, Nov. 4, 2004. US forces are preparing for a major offensive in Fallujah, west of Baghdad, and other Sunni militant strongholds
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A US Marine leads a way a captured Iraqi man in the center of Fallujah, Iraq, Friday, Nov. 12, 2004. Trooping past dead bodies and abandoned weapons, US Marines fighting their way through Iraq&#39;s rebel-infested
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US Marines clashed with insurgents on the outskirts of the rebel bastion of Fallujah and launched airstrikes at militant targets, the US command said Friday.
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NEAR FALLUJAH, Iraq -- US soldiers and Marines launched a large attack Thursday into the southern half of Fallujah, where insurgents still holding, opening a second phase in the offensive, US officials said.
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American forces have stormed key areas of Fallujah early in the day, in what appears to be the first stage of the long-expected assault on the city.
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Behind a barrage of tank and artillery fire, US troops charged Saturday into southern Fallujah, overrunning the final insurgent stronghold in the city after nearly
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FALLUJAH, Iraq, Nov 8 (MASNET &amp; News Agencies) - US Marines began intense shelling across the city of Fallujah after Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi gave the go-ahead for an all-out assault on the rebel enclave.
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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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BAGHDAD, Iraq - U.S. Marines launched air and ground attacks Thursday on the insurgent bastion Fallujah after city representatives suspended peace talks with the government over Prime Minister Ayad Allawi's demand to hand over terror mastermind Abu Musab al-Zarqawi...
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United States warplanes have dropped a huge bomb on the Iraqi rebel city of Fallujah after US marines clashed with insurgents on the eastern fringes of the Sunni Muslim bastion.
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FALLUJA, Iraq  - U.S. Marines backed by aircraft  fought insurgents in the Iraqi city of Falluja on Thursday, six  weeks after launching a major attack that aimed to quell revolt  in the city before next month's election.
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A US Marine of the 1st Division gestures during a patrol outside Fallujah, Iraq, Sunday, Oct. 31, 2004. American forces are preparing for a major assault on Fallujah in an effort to restore control to a swathe
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FALLUJAH: Eight US marines were killed and nine were wounded west of Baghdad on Saturday in the bloodiest attack on US forces in Iraq for months.