Marines make their way through the streets of Najaf in 2004. (Courtesy Manifold Productions, Inc.) Jan Bender remembers the moment as if it were yesterday. Taking cover from insurgents, his fireteam ...

Jan. 29, 2007 — -- Iraqi and American forces last weekend engaged in a lengthy and fierce battle with a violent Iraqi cult that was planning to conduct a large-scale attack that would coincide ...

A major battle is triggered near Iraq's holy city of Najaf as Iraqi-led forces launch an offensive on a previously unknown militant group known as the Army of Heaven. About 300 Iraqi militants died ...

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- At least 250 people were killed in a daylong battle Sunday near the city of Najaf when U.S.-backed Iraqi troops attacked insurgents suspected of plotting to kill pilgrims at a major ...

Beirut — Declassified 1970s-era U.S. spy satellite imagery has led a British-Iraqi archeological team to what they believe is the site of a seventh-century battle that became decisive in the spread of ...

August 2004, U.S. forces engage with a Shiite militia in the Southern Iraqi city of Najaf. In August 2004, U.S. forces engage with the Shiite Mahdi militia in the Southern Iraqi city of Najaf. After ...

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 ...

"The Last 600 Meters" is a new documentary that tells the story of the two deadliest battles of the Iraq War. In 2004, U.S. forces fought the Shiite Mahdi militia in the Battle of Najaf against the ...

It's the story of the battles in Fallujah and Najaf, two of the deadliest battles of the Iraq War. The battles of Fallujah and Najaf in 2004 were the two deadliest battles of the Iraq War. This film ...