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 ...

FALLUJAH, Iraq -- Led by a former Saddam Hussein general, Iraqi troops replaced U.S. Marines on Friday and raised the Iraqi flag at the entrance to Fallujah under a plan to end the monthlong siege of ...

Even the dead insurgents lining the streets and alleys of Fallujah were a threat to the U.S. Marines pushing into the Iraqi city two decades ago. Troops shot up the often boobytrapped corpses lying ...

FALLUJAH, Iraq, April 7 -- Hundreds of Marines inched toward the heart of this embattled city Wednesday, darting across roads and crouching on corners as the echo of mortars and rifles mingled with ...

NEAR FALLUJAH, Iraq, Oct. 29 -- U.S. Marines are preparing for a decisive battle in the Sunni Triangle area west of Baghdad, where rebels are using violence and intimidation to extend their influence ...

There will be no horrific acts." By Saturday, all 700 Marines of the 1st Battalion, 5th Regiment had pulled out of the industrial zone in southern Fallujah, their main forward base in the city. If all ...

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 ...

BAGHDAD, Iraq - American officials and local Iraqi leaders agreed Monday to a series of measures aimed at defusing tensions in the violence-wracked city of Fallujah, where fierce clashes between ...

FALLUJAH, Iraq Down a steep staircase littered with glass shards and rubble, U.S. Marines descended Thursday to a dark basement believed to have been one of Fallujah's torture chambers. They found ...

2004-04-29 04:00:00 PDT Fallujah, Iraq-- A milestone in the protracted siege of Fallujah will occur Friday, when joint patrols of U.S. Marines and Iraqi security forces are scheduled to enter ...