Fallujah Intercity Battle

Iraqi families leave the outskirts of Fallujah, Iraq, Nov. 15, 2004, as U.S. forces resumed heavy air strikes and artillery in Fallujah and surrounding areas. U.S. ground forces were trying to corner the remaining resistance in the city.

U.S. Marine arrests Iraqi man, in Fallujah, Iraq, Nov. 14, 2004.

U.S. Marines of the 1st Division take up position as they advance in the western part of Fallujah, Iraq, Nov. 14, 2004.

U.S. Marine of the 1st Division push farther into the western part of Fallujah, Iraq, Nov. 14, 2004. U.S. military officials said Saturday that U.S. forces had now "occupied" the entire city of Fallujah.

A U.S. Marine of the 1st Division collects rebel weapons in the western part of Fallujah, Iraq, Nov. 14, 2004.

U.S. Marine Maj. Gen. Richard Natonski stands at the bridge in the western part of Fallujah, Iraq, where the bodies of two American contractors killed by militants were strung up in March, sparking the earlier U.S. siege, Nov. 14, 2004.

A member of Charlie Company of the First Marine Batallion, Eighth Regiment, conducts mop-up duty at a house in Fallujah, Iraq, Nov. 13, 2004.

U.S. Marines try to push into the center of Fallujah, Iraq, Nov. 12, 2004. Trooping past dead bodies and abandoned weapons, U.S. Marines fighting their way through Iraq's rebel-infested Fallujah are blasting their way through walls and hammering open doors seeking fighters and guns in the days-long battle against Sunni Muslim insurgents.

U.S. Marines move toward the center of Fallujah, Iraq, Nov. 12, 2004. Army and Marine units moved to tighten their security cordon around the besieged city.

A Syrian driver, Mohammed al-Joundi, shows how he was handcuffed after being freed by U.S. Marines in the center of Fallujah, Iraq, Nov. 12, 2004.

An Iraqi family carries a green flag as it tries to flee fighting in the center of Fallujah, Iraq, Nov. 12, 2004. Hundreds of men trying to flee the assault on Fallujah have been turned back by U.S. troops following orders to allow only women, children and the elderly to leave.

A U.S. Marine escorts captured Iraqi men in the center of Fallujah, Iraq, Nov. 12, 2004.

Goats walk in the deserted center of Fallujah, Iraq, Nov. 12, 2004. Trooping past dead bodies and abandoned weapons, U.S. Marines are fighting their way through Iraq's rebel-infested Fallujah. They are are blasting their way through walls and hammering open doors, seeking fighters and guns in the daylong battle against Sunni Muslim insurgents.

U.S. Marines try to push into the center of Fallujah, Iraq, Nov. 12, 2004.

A U.S. Marine uses his foot to search for ammunition near the bodies of dead Iraqi fighters in the center of Fallujah, Iraq, Nov. 12, 2004.

U.S. Marines of the Fifth Division take cover as they push into the center of Fallujah, Iraq, Nov. 11, 2004.

U.S. Marines of the Fifth Division arrest Iraqi men in the center of Fallujah, Iraq, Nov. 11, 2004.

Members of Charlie Company of the First Marine Division, 8th Regiment, tend to a comrade wounded by sniper fire as they tried to advance on the Janabi Mosque in Fallujah, Iraq, Nov. 10, 2004.

Buildings and debris burn in Fallujah, Iraq, as U.S. soldiers with 1st Cavalry Division and Marines conduct street-to-street combat operations during Operation Al Fajr (New Dawn), on Nov. 9, 2004.

U. S. Army soldiers from 2nd Battalion, 5th Cavalry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division, enter a building in Fallujah, Iraq, during Operation Al Fajr (New Dawn), Nov. 9, 2004.