The future America-class amphibious assault ship LHA-9 will be named after the two battles of Fallujah of the Iraq war, the Navy secretary announced Tuesday. The 45,000-metric-ton vessel, USS Fallujah ...

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 ...

AMERICAN AND Iraqi troops appeared to be on the way to success yesterday in their operation to retake control of Fallujah from anti-government insurgents and foreign terrorists who have held the city ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Fallujah, Iraq, was the scene of two major battles in 2004 that have become among the most famous from two decades of the Global ...

CAMP TARIQ, Iraq (AP) — As Iraqi security forces tighten their grip on the outskirts of militant-held Fallujah allegations of human rights violations are surfacing on both sides of the operation. On ...

The US Navy has announced they will be naming a new American-class landing helicopter assault ship (LHA), the USS Fallujah, as a homage to the two bloodiest battles of the War in Iraq. “It is an honor ...

A future America-class amphibious assault ship will bear the name USS Fallujah to commemorate the battles Marines fought in that city during the Iraq War, Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Navy’s next amphibious assault ship will be named after the city of Fallujah, which saw some of the bloodiest battles in the Iraq War when U.S. Marines fought al-Qaida extremists ...

Recently the refractory city of Fallujah re-emerged as a front-page story. Fallujah first leaped to national attention last November when it became the scene of the fiercest urban combat in the past ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jan Bender remembers the moment as if it were yesterday. Taking cover from insurgents, his fireteam had just assembled in the dark ...

In Fallujah, US troops are engaged in the battle Secretary Rumsfeld says will -tip- Iraqi opinion toward democracy once and for all. But while the US wants an Iraqi face on the action, Iraqi troops ...