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 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.

A veteran recounts the unusual and unexpected sights experienced in Fallujah. Stories from the frontlines reveal the strange, shocking, and surreal moments of combat.

(Wikimedia Commons) How the Americans Did Urban Combat Right When U.S. forces prepared to assault Fallujah in November 2004, a city of 250,000 that had become an insurgent stronghold in Iraq's Sunni ...

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 ...