Ramadi, Iraq – Weapons locked, loaded and ready, a U.S. Marine platoon runs through this troubled city’s war-wrecked streets, hurling yellow, gray and violet smoke grenades to shroud their path.

Palmyra, Syria fell to ISIS just days after the militants chased the Iraqi army out of Ramadi, Iraq, a city of 500,000. ISIS is on the offense, its momentum unbroken by the U.S.-led campaign of ...

RAMADI, Iraq — This is the anti-Fallouja strategy. Here, in the capital of Al Anbar province, the U.S. military is attempting to clear and pacify an insurgent stronghold without leveling the city in ...

Former Marine Bing West talks with Steve Inskeep about the efforts against insurgents in Ramadi. Bing has been to Ramadi nine times since 2003. He returned from an assignment there last week, ...

BAGHDAD, Iraq – U.S. soldiers in Ramadi fought with suspected insurgents using a building as a safe house on Tuesday, killing one man and five females, ranging in age from an infant to teenagers, the ...

Hundreds of armed men marched through the capital of Anbar province as mosque loudspeakers broadcast a statement by the Mujahidin Shura Council. Cars also formed convoys in a show of strength in an ...

Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. A clash between Iraqi insurgents and U.S. Marines has resulted in the deaths of five girls, ...

In a neighborhood where a hidden bomb once lifted a 60-ton Abrams tank 5 feet off the ground, U.S. Army Capt. Jeff Kersey warily trains his assault rifle’s spotlight on reeking mounds of curbside ...

Thursday’s blast near the Imam Hussein shrine in central Karbala, 80km south of Baghdad, killed 49 people and injured 52, police said. Hospital sources said a bomber detonated his explosive belt on a ...

In a neighborhood where a hidden bomb once lifted a 60-ton Abrams tank 5 feet off the ground, U.S. Army Capt. Jeff Kersey warily trains his assault rifle’s spotlight on reeking mounds of curbside ...