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 ...

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 ...

Fred moves to a staging area in Camp Baharia, near Fallujah, Iraq, the day before Operation Phantom Fury. The photo was snapped by Max Becherer, a photojournalist who was freelancing for Time Magazine ...

Pete Hegseth came to office with benighted views of women in combat. Within a year, he ordered a study on whether having ...

Marine Lance Cpl. James Blake Miller of Kentucky grabs a break during the fighting in Fallujah. After this iconic photo appeared in U.S. newspapers in 2004, Miller was dubbed "Marlboro Man." Sgt. Chet ...

Nearly two decades after it was filmed, a new documentary revisits two of the deadliest battles during the early years of the Iraq War by showing the first-person perspective of the men on the ground.

When Mike Tabura shipped off to Iraq in 2004 with the Marines, he called his wife to announce his safe arrival. She told him: “I’m pregnant!” Tabura was 26 and soon deployed for Operation Phantom Fury ...