Fallujah

...Dale Barbara, a drifter who served in the Iraq war and is haunted by memories of something that went terribly wrong in a gymnasium in Fallujah. On his side are a physician's assistant, the editor of the local paper and a computer-savvy kid...

In this article: Stephen King, New England, Under the Dome, Claustrophobia, Iraq War, and Randall Flagg

Photo: Getty Images No one knows why birth defects are increasing but doctors fear they are a result of war, writes Martin Chulov in Falluja. ainab Abdul Latif moves wearily between her three children, wiping their foreheads and...

In this article: Falluja, Allah, Surgery, and Hiroshima

...fire during Operation Phantom Fury, a joint U.S.-Iraqi offensive led by the U.S. Marine Corps against Iraqi insurgents in the city of Fallujah. This battle was the scene of the heaviest urban combat involving the U.S. Marine Corps in almost...

In this article: U.S. Marine Corps, 4th Combat Engineer Battalion, 4th Marine Division, Iraqi insurgents, University of Georgia, and Iraq

You are to be congratulated for bringing to public notice the possible causes of birth defects and cancers among infants in Falluja (Report, 14 November). You mention radiation poisoning, but not depleted uranium munitions. These...

In this article: Uranium, Falluja, US, Agent Orange, Defoliant, BBC News, Gulf War, Dioxin, Cancer, and Anencephaly

...Margaret Hassan. Sunni Muslims in Iraq expressed anger over videotape showing the fatal shooting of a wounded and apparently unarmed man in a Fallujah mosque by a U.S. Marine. One year ago: Iraq's Cabinet overwhelmingly approved a security...

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Two Iraqi boys with the remains of a US rocket Evidence was growing this weekend that babies born in the Iraqi city of Fallujah - scene in 2004 of one of the few set-piece battles of the invasion - are exhibiting high rates of mortality...

In this article: Deformity, Phosphorus, Uranium, United Nations, First World War, Cancer, and US

...three children, wiping their foreheads and propping them up in their wheelchairs. "Every day, they need intensive care," the 29-year-old Fallujah mother says. Neither her two sons, Amar, 5, and Moustafa, 3, or daughter, Mariam, 6, can walk or...

In this article: Allah, Surgery, Iraq, and Hiroshima

...and dean of the faculty of medicine and biomedical science at St George's, University of London, points out that war zones such as Falluja involve many of the risk factors that cause deformities in children. "The whole of the war...

In this article: Falluja, Agent Orange, Herbicide, Phosphorus, St George's, University of London, Gulf War, Deformity, and Birth defects

Huge rise in birth defects in Falluja Iraqi former battle zone sees abnormal clusters of infant tumours and deformities The children of Falluja Link to this video Doctors in Iraq's war-ravaged enclave of Falluja are dealing with up to...

In this article: Falluja, US, Iraq, Phosphorus, Cancer, and Nasiriyah

...once based at the Marine Corps Recruit Depot in San Diego. There were actually two fights for Fallujah in one year. Once relatively calm, the city exploded March 31, 2004, when four Blackwater security contractors were killed in an...

In this article: United States, Blackwater, and George W. Bush