ALBUQUERQUE -- -- ALBUQUERQUE -- One November day in 2004, in 30 minutes of close combat, Marine Pfc. Christopher Adlesperger, a soft-spoken, religious young man who loved poetry and art, attacked an ...

Marines patrol with members of the Iraqi Special Operations Forces in the devastated city of Fallujah, Iraq, in a picture released Nov. 23, 2004, by the Multi National Force-Iraq. (MNF-I/AFP via Getty ...

Twenty years ago, on Nov. 7, 2004, a coalition assault force of more than 15,000 troops, mostly Marines, launched a massive attack on the city of Fallujah, Iraq. Over the next seven weeks they would ...

In the central Iraqi city of Fallujah, the joy of pregnancy is overshadowed by dread. For many families, the anticipation of new life is replaced by the fear of what might be born into their arms.

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Part 8 of TIME’s Return to Baghdad series. In nearly every American war, places such as Gettysburg and Normandy entered the lexicon because they were turning points, locations from which historians ...

SAN DIEGO – Shirley Parrello knows that her youngest boy believed in his mission in Iraq. But as she watches Iraqi government forces try to retake the hard-won city of Fallujah from al-Qaida-linked ...

The Second Battle of Fallujah, which took place in 2004 during the Iraq War, resulted in the deaths of an unknown number of Iraqi civilians -- at the time estimated around 800 but likely many more -- ...