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 ...

Jan Bender remembers the moment as if it were yesterday. Taking cover from insurgents, his fireteam had just assembled in the dark in front of a house in Fallujah, Iraq, when the Marines were ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. It’s been two decades since the Battle of Fallujah, the bloodiest battle of the ...

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 ...

FALLUJAH, Iraq (AP) - A series of explosions and gunfire rocked Fallujah today in new fighting the day after a heavy battle in which U.S. warplanes and artillery pounded the city in a show of force ...

NEAR FALLUJAH, Iraq, Nov. 13 -- On his first night in the city, Sgt. Aristotel Barbosa slept uneasily on the floor near the door of a vacant house that his Marine unit had taken over. A squad leader ...

FALLUJAH, Iraq, Nov. 15 -- Even the dogs have started to die, their corpses strewn among twisted metal and shattered concrete in a city that looks like it forgot to breathe. The aluminum shutters of ...