U.S. Marines Launch Full-Scale Assault on Falluja
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NEAR FALLUJA, Iraq  - U.S. Marines launched a  full-scale ground assault on Monday night to retake Iraq's  rebel-held city of Falluja, a Reuters witness said.
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US marines today consolidated their hold on Falluja as insurgents struck back against US-led forces across Iraq. Rebels kidnapped 31 Iraqi policemen and launched bomb and rocket attacks on British and Iraqi forces.
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FALLUJA, Iraq  - U.S. warplanes launched air  strikes in the Iraqi city of Falluja on Wednesday amid fierce  fighting between U.S.-led forces and rebels.
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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 Marines have cleared over 50 percent of Falluja&#39;s houses of weapons caches after mounting an offensive that crushed the Iraqi city&#39;s rebels, their top commander said Friday.
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Description: US Marines, bolstered by hundreds of Iraqi soldiers, prepare for a full-scale assault on the insurgent stronghold of Fallujah.
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U.S. forces hit the rebel-held Iraqi  city of Falluja with air and artillery strikes on Friday that  residents described as the heaviest in months.
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NEAR FALLUJA, Iraq  - A U.S. Marine tank company  and infantry unit moved early on Monday to a staging area near  Falluja ahead of a major offensive against the rebel-held city.
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The U.S. military sealed off Falluja on  Friday and launched a night of air strikes on the rebel city  ahead of an assault seen as critical to the interim  government's attempt to pacify Iraq before January polls.
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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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FALLUJA, Iraq  - Thousands of U.S. and Iraqi  troops backed by heavy air support and armor have stormed into  the Sunni Muslim city of Falluja in the second major offensive  in seven months to try to recapture the insurgent stronghold.
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U.S. planes and artillery pounded  Falluja on Monday and Iraq's interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi  said he had authorized a U.S.-led offensive to rid the Sunni  Muslim city of insurgents.
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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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U.S. forces launched fresh attacks in and near the restive Iraqi city of Falluja overnight, killing about 60 foreign fighters, the U.S. military said on Friday.
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NEAR FALLUJA, Iraq  - U.S. marines prepared on  Friday to storm the Iraqi cities of Falluja and Ramadi to crush  Sunni Muslim insurgents and Arab fighters.
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FALLUJA, Iraq  - U.S. forces launched air strikes  on the rebel-held city of Falluja on Monday, targeting what  they said was a meeting of key loyalists of their top foe in  Iraq, Jordanian militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.
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US tanks and Marines stormed into Falluja on Monday night in a fierce ground assault to retake the Iraqi city from rebels. Several tanks thrust into the city and guerrillas