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World Socialist Web Site
April 25, 2018
The Trump administration's secretary of defence, James Mattis, who as an army general directed the destruction of the Iraqi city of Fallujah in 2004, declared ... An investigative report published by the BBC in November, entitled “Raqqa's Dirty Secret,” revealed that the Pentagon allowed hundreds of ISISÃâà...
Arab News
April 23, 2018
FALLUJAH, Iraq: The main road running through the heart of Fallujah cuts the landscape in two like a fissure from an earthquake. On either side ... In 2004, US troops waged two battles in the city against Iraqi and foreign extremists, and residents driven to take up arms by the occupation. The ferociousÃâà...
Arab News
April 16, 2018
FALLUJAH, Iraq: The main road running through the heart of Fallujah cuts the landscape in two like a fissure from an earthquake. On either side ... In 2004, US troops waged two battles in the city against Iraqi and foreign extremists, and residents driven to take up arms by the occupation. The ferociousÃâà...
Arab News
April 15, 2018
Fallujah's strategic location in Al-Anbar province — the heartland of Iraq's Sunni tribes — and its reputation as a symbol of resistance for people across the Muslim ... In 2004, US troops waged two battles in the city against Iraqi and foreign extremists, and residents driven to take up arms by the occupation.
Yahoo News
April 14, 2018
South of Fallujah's Route Fran were hundreds of insurgents who'd spent months digging trench lines, emplacing roadside bombs, barricading streets, training with their weapons, reading the ... On November 9, 2004, the highway was wet—it'd rained the previous day—and the sky was gray and foreboding.
The Atlantic
April 14, 2018
South of Fallujah's Route Fran were hundreds of insurgents who'd spent months digging trench lines, emplacing roadside bombs, barricading streets, training with their weapons, reading the ... On November 9, 2004, the highway was wet—it'd rained the previous day—and the sky was gray and foreboding.
The Atlantic
April 14, 2018
South of Fallujah's Route Fran were hundreds of insurgents who'd spent months digging trench lines, emplacing roadside bombs, barricading streets, training with their weapons, reading the ... On November 9, 2004, the highway was wet—it'd rained the previous day—and the sky was gray and foreboding.
JTAC News
April 11, 2018
A Rohingya family, Burmese Muslims, live in the Thay Chaung camp for the Internally Displaced outside of Sittwe, which houses nearly 3000 people, November 23, 2015. The mother, pictured here, claimed all ... “In 2004 was the first time I was kidnapped in Fallujah, Iraq. Which was a Sunni stronghold andÃâà...
Arab News
April 10, 2018
November 16-17/October 24, 2017: In less than a month, Russia used its veto three times to block draft resolutions on renewing a UN-led probe of chemical weapons attacks ... FALLUJAH, Iraq: The main road running through the heart of Fallujah cuts the landscape in two like a fissure from an earthquake.
The Daily Herald
April 10, 2018
Glenn was born one day after his future companion in November 2016 at The Wilds, a conservation center and safari park located in Cumberland, Ohio. The zoo's new reserve will showcase the greater one-horned rhinos, also known as Indian rhinos, Asian brown tortoises and demoiselle cranes.
Gamasutra (blog)
April 1, 2018
It was about the men on the ground and their personal accounts during that week in November 2004. Six Days in Fallujah was going to be a game that presented history, knowledge, and tragedy during a serious world event. What a novel approach to the watered down and sensationalized gunplay gamesÃâà...
The Nation.
March 30, 2018
He earned that “Mad Dog” sobriquet while commanding the US Marines who twice in 2004 laid siege to Fallujah. During those sieges, American forces .... Even before the latest blockade began in November 2017, that country faced the largest food emergency in the world. Now, it is in the early stages of aÃâà...
FAIR
March 23, 2018
By early 2004, what media still presented as a US campaign to “win hearts and minds” in Iraq came up against reality hard in the city of Fallujah, where a military attack and siege killed hundreds of Iraqi civilians. Reporting on this “First Battle” of Fallujah was a case study in the gap between corporateÃâà...
The Atlantic
March 20, 2018
The U.S. Air Force, in response to a Freedom of Information Act request, released on April 14, 2004, more than 300 photographs showing the remains of ..... in the Iraqi city of Fallujah, poses in a hallway at a program operated by Doctors Without Borders / Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) on November 28,Ãâà...
Pew Research Center
March 19, 2018
U.S. Marines run back to the Al-Hadra Mosque in Fallujah, Iraq, in November 2004 after sniper fire slowed their advance. (Luis Sinco/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images). Fifteen years after the U.S. invasion of Iraq in March 2003, the American public is divided over whether using military force was theÃâà...
The FINANCIAL
March 19, 2018
U.S. Marines run back to the Al-Hadra Mosque in Fallujah, Iraq, in November 2004 after sniper fire slowed their advance. (Luis Sinco/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images). The Iraq War continues to divide the U.S. public, 15 years after it began. Reading Mode. aA. aA. Share This. AddThis Sharing Buttons.
World Socialist Web Site
March 8, 2018
I answered the call to help our country in Iraq in 2004 and became one of the longest serving US diplomats of the Iraq War. .... is retiring, was a Marine Corps officer, rising to the rank of captain and deploying to Fallujah, Iraq, scene of some of the bloodiest battles and most horrific US war crimes of that war.
KTVQ Billings News
March 8, 2018
July 1, 2004 - Hussein makes his first appearance in court. He is charged with a variety of crimes, including the invasion of Kuwait and the gassing of the Kurds. September 6, 2004 - The number of US troops killed in Iraq reaches 1,000. November 2004 - US and Iraqi forces battle insurgents in Falluja.
New Matilda
March 8, 2018
In the wake of revelations that the new Senator Jim Molan, formerly Major General Molan, shared inflammatory videos last year, the Greens leader Richard Di Natale drew attention in parliament to Molan's time as commander of the coalition assault on Fallujah in Iraq in November 2004, and to a UN specialÃâà...
The San Diego Union-Tribune
February 23, 2018
Dave Krohn, who purchased T&H Prime Meats & Sausage in November 2014, shows off the marbling in a porterhouse steak as longtime butcher Armando Salazar trims the fat from other steaks ... Krohn is a former Camp Pendleton Marine who served two tours in Iraq, including time in Fallujah in 2004.
Center for Research on Globalization
February 20, 2018
To answer the first of those questions one needs to go no further then the assaults on Fallujah, the first of which occurred in April 2004 and the second, codenamed Operation Phantom Fury, in October 2004. Before the second attack began, citizens were instructed to leave, but that did not extend to menÃâà...
Green Left Weekly
February 14, 2018
Writing in Online Opinion in 2008, Chris Dolan noted that as the third highest-ranking officer in the multinational force, Molan “not only planned, but also directed, the late 2004 attacks on Najaf, Fallujah, and Samarra”. Dolan noted: “Fallujah is particularly notorious for the widespread and well documentedÃâà...
Task & Purpose
November 22, 2017
From day one, the November 2004 offensive to clear Fallujah, Iraq, of enemy fighters was a grueling block-by-block fight. ... On Nov. 15, then-Cpl. Eubaldo Lovato, a squad leader with Alpha Company, 1st Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment, and his Marines had successfully cleared their sector of the city whenÃâà...
We Are The Mighty (blog)
November 14, 2017
On Nov. 10, 1775, a man named Samuel Nicholas went to Tun Tavern in Philadelphia, Penn. There he began a recruitment process to put sharpshooters on Naval vessels to protect them. He also wanted to create a landing force for some of the most intense battles in the Revolutionary War.
We Are The Mighty (blog)
November 14, 2017
By Donald Baker Nov. ... Though the Marine Corps' birthday has landed on many the days of battles over time, Fallujah is the most recent and was called, “the biggest urban battle ... November then came, and the Marines were sent in again to liberate the city and eliminate the enemy from of every inch of it.
Business Insider
November 13, 2017
Iraqi forces "swiftly and thoroughly" ejected ISIS fighters from Al Qaim — a city at the western edge of Iraq's Anbar province and the terrorist group's last stronghold on the Iraq-Syria border — in early November. ISIS has lost most of the land it once held and has largely disappeared as an organized fightingÃâà...
WAMU 88.5
November 1, 2017
These days, he doesn't have anyone to practice them with, so he repeats words to himself over and over as he walks home from school in Fallujah. With one leg, the journey on crutches takes him an hour. Mustafa, now almost 15, was two years old at the start of the battle for Fallujah in November 2004.
BBC News
September 5, 2017
As night falls on Falluja and darkness takes the edge off the blistering summer heat, Anas al-Janabi switches on the lights. A creaky ferris wheel, with .... When he and his family returned from Suleimaniya in November 2016, after three years away, they found the house looted and burned. The first floor hadÃâà...
KPAX-TV
December 31, 1999
September 23, 2004 - Allawi, interim leader of Iraq, speaks before a joint session of Congress while he is in Washington for meetings with President George W. Bush. November 2004 - US and Iraqi forces battle insurgents in Falluja. About 2,000 insurgents are killed. On November 14, 2004, the UnitedÃâà...
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