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As the marine presence shrinks and Iraqis take more control, Fallujah – once a template for counterinsurgency efforts in Iraq, where US forces have controlled all the variables – is likely ...

“Going to Fallujah was the most horrific experience of our lives,” recalls Mike Ergo, a team leader for the US Marines Alpha Company, 1st Battalion. Yet paradoxically, “it was also, for ...

And more now on the situation in Fallujah from Scott Peterson of The Christian Science Monitor. He's joining us by phone from Istanbul in Turkey, but in November, he was embedded with the Marines ...

A former Marine who enlisted right after 9/11 reflects on a profound loss.And the way he chose to honor the memory of a ...

It is the deadliest attack on US forces in Iraq since August. Ten Marines were killed yesterday in a roadside bombing near Fallujah. The military says 11 other Marines were wounded in the attack.

The US military said the marines were killed in the restive western province of Anbar, which includes Fallujah and Ramadi, but gave no details. Nine marines were also wounded. Witnesses said ...

Twenty years ago, on Nov. 7, 2004, a coalition assault force of more than 15,000 troops, mostly Marines, launched a massive attack on the city of Fallujah, Iraq. Over the next seven weeks they ...

Atomic said yes. "Fortunately, while some had been wounded, all of the Marines we knew returned from Iraq," Tamte said. "They told us stories about Fallujah that reminded me of the World War II ...

The US Navy has yet to release any information about when the USS Fallujah will be commissioned, but the ship will be designed to support Marine Corps operations. Ships like the USS Fallujah are ...

‘Six Days in Fallujah’ promises to provide a ... in the battle and who warns players that “it was real for us very quickly. We had a Marine (killed in action) within five minutes.” ...