Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Israel has indicated it will soon begin a ground offensive into Gaza. A geopolitical expert who embedded with US Marines in ...

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 ...

Israel appears to be preparing for the next phase of its military operation: a ground campaign to “crush and destroy” Hamas, as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has put it. Israel has ...

NEAR FALLUJAH, Iraq The Marines are getting ready for an all-out assault. Troops are disassembling and cleaning their weapons, stocking up on supplies, studying tactics and participating in numerous ...

The Fallujah invasion itself has come easier than expected. Lieutenant General John F. Sattler, commander of Marine forces in Iraq, said that of up to 5,000 insurgents once believed to be in Fallujah, ...

Israel's anticipated ground invasion of Gaza will be far more destructive and difficult than the "absolute hell" that US Marines experienced in Fallujah in Iraq, a geopolitical expert said. "I see ...