KARBALA, Iraq – The plush accommodation halls on the outskirts of this southern Iraqi city, normally reserved for visiting Shiite pilgrims, now teem with displaced Sunnis fleeing violence in the ...

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Ten years ago today, U.S. Marines began their assault of the Iraqi city of Fallujah. Operation Phantom Fury, as it was called, would become the bloodiest battle for American forces in the Iraq War.

The angry, violent Sunni city of Fallujah in western Iraq was as “iconic” in George Bush’s invasion as Bastogne in World War Two and the siege of Hue in Vietnam. The Fallujah battles “stood for” ...

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As the nation honored all of those who have fought in its wars this week, the veterans of Fallujah deserve a special place in our memory. It was 10 years ago that Marines and soldiers engaged in the ...

Will Walsh got to know the Iraqi city of Fallujah while running across its bridges in the middle of the night, under fire, looking for IEDs. That was nearly 10 years ago. Last weekend, the former Army ...

Tuesday afternoon, a Fallujah man – a friend and rare source of impartial information on the five months of fighting in Anbar province – phoned me. He had fled Fallujah in early February because of ...

Several days after Iraqi military forces launched an offensive against Islamic State militants in Fallujah, thousands of civilians in the city are at “extreme risk,” the United Nations said Thursday. ...

“We all knew it was probably gonna happen” says Blake Hancock, 29, a former Marine Corps corporal who now is a junior at the University of Georgia. Hancock served in Fallujah, Iraq, in 2005 and the ...