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 ...

Editor’s note: For Veterans Day, PEOPLE is publishing a series of stories looking back at the service members and families affected by the two battles of Fallujah, in Iraq, in 2004 — combined, they ...

The so-called second battle of Fallujah — code-named Operation Phantom Fury — came seven months later. For several bloody weeks, the Marines went house-to-house in what has been called some of the ...