Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Twenty years ago, on Nov. 7, 2004, a coalition assault force of more than 15,000 troops, mostly Marines, launched a massive attack ...

Opinion articles provide independent perspectives on key community issues, separate from our newsroom reporting. A soldier's boot sits near the smoldering wreckage of an 82nd Airborne Division humvee ...

As lightening flashes intermittently in an otherwise clear sky, a group of more than 200 Marines begins to gear up on a dusty plain outside the Iraqi city of Fallujah. Officers bark orders, directing ...