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 ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. It’s been two decades since the Battle of Fallujah, the bloodiest battle of the ...

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 ...

"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 ...