My colleague Roger Kaplan recently wrote an excellent review of the PBS documentary, The Last 600 Meters, which is an excellent description of the battles of Najaf and Fallujah during the Iraq war.
Airing on PBS, a new documentary tells the stories of Marines and soldiers in combat during 2004 operations to clear two Iraqi cities of insurgents.
CEDAR FALLS - There had been five days of heavy fighting between Marines and insurgents in Fallujah, Iraq. It was April 9. Jim and Sandy Burford hadn't heard a thing from their son, Lance Cpl. Clint ...
Photo courtesy of Kristopher Battles. A new painting at the National Museum of the Marine Corps in Triangle, Virginia, depicts the dust, darkness, and confusion of the brutal house-to-house fighting ...
The new "Fallujah Brigade," put together by Iraqi generals from Saddam Hussein's ousted regime, likely will include some former army soldiers who fought American forces over the past month, Marine Lt.
HARTFORD A 20-year-old Marine from Hartford was killed in fighting in the Iraqi city of Fallujah. Jeffery Holmes was killed on Thanksgiving Day. "Part of you is gone," said his mother, Patti Holmes.