Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Twenty years ago, on Nov. 7, 2004, a coalition assault force of more than 15,000 troops, mostly Marines, launched a massive attack ...

In a narrow alley, U.S. Marines pinned down by a hail of guerrilla fire sent up red smoke in a cry for help. Tanks pounded shell after shell into houses, while troops on the edge of the city crawled ...

Opinion articles provide independent perspectives on key community issues, separate from our newsroom reporting. A soldier's boot sits near the smoldering wreckage of an 82nd Airborne Division humvee ...

As lightening flashes intermittently in an otherwise clear sky, a group of more than 200 Marines begins to gear up on a dusty plain outside the Iraqi city of Fallujah. Officers bark orders, directing ...

The people of Fallujah carried their dead to the city’s soccer stadium and buried them under the field, unable to get to cemeteries because of the U.S. siege of the city. Subscribe to read this story ...