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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The painting, “Operation Phantom Fury — Fallujah 2004,” is intended to capture the uncertainty of urban combat. A new painting at ...

NPR — along with seven public radio stations around the country — is chronicling the lives of America's troops where they live. We're calling the project "Back at Base." This is the first installment ...

Marine Corps officer Bill Arnold as a platoon leader during deployment to Iraq in 2005. (Photo courtesy of Bill Arnold) Bill Arnold always had the passion to serve his country. Coming from a family of ...

It’s time to leave Iraq, President Barack Obama said Friday. For thousands of locally based Marines who spearheaded the March2003 invasion and fought an entrenched and bloody insurgency, ...

A San Diego lawmaker is reviving the push to award the Medal of Honor to Sgt. Rafael Peralta, a U.S. Marine who is said to have sacrificed his life by falling on a grenade to save fellow troops during ...

FALLUJAH, Iraq -- Gunmen waved their weapons in Fallujah's streets and outside car windows Saturday, cheering what they called a victory as U.S. forces pulled back. But the Marines insisted they weren ...

Twenty years ago this month, U.S. Marines began fighting the largest urban battle since the Vietnam War. More than 12,000 American, British and Iraqi troops fought for Fallujah, which had become an ...

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 ...

Platoon Sergeant Staff Sgt. Eric Brown, Machine Gun Section Leader Sgt. Aubrey McDade Jr., Radio Operator Cpl. Steven Archibald, and Combat Engineer Lance Cpl. Robert Coburn as they were about to go ...