TWENTYNINE PALMS — A large U.S. military map of Husaybah, a remote city on the Iraqi border with Syria, was spread across a table in the garage of a home outside the Marine Corps base here. The young ...
HUSAYBAH, Iraq — The Marines stationed at Camp Gannon, on the outskirts of this outlaw town where insurgents are thick on the ground, are used to being shot at. So when they recently heard AK-47 ...
Cpmbat operation continue in and around Husaybah as day two of Operation Steel Curtain completes. Fighting has been reported as both sporadic and alternatively intense. Marine Lt.Col. Dale Alford, ...
HUSAYBAH, Iraq — Some showed up in business-style blue blazers and neckties. Others wore more traditional garb of regal robes with white headdress. There were 34 men in all who lined up outside the ...
About 3,500 U.S. and Iraqi troops backed by jets launched a major attack Saturday against an insurgent-held town near the Syrian border, seeking to dislodge al Qaeda and its allies and seal off a main ...
HUSAYBAH, Iraq — The U.S. Marines keep saying the same thing to a local militia leader known as Abu Ali: Stop carrying your weapons. Nevertheless, the man, who heads a local paramilitary group, ...
At 160920C FEB 09, PTT 6 was informed by [Name withheld] the Habbaniyah District IP OIC, of alleged detainee abuse at the Husaybah IP station. An update will be posted when more information becomes ...
This afternoon I conducted an interview with Colonel Stephen W. Davis, the Commander of Marine Regimental Combat Team – 2 currently operating in western Iraq and engaged in Operation Steel Curtain in ...
We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Baghdad news every morning. In a dimly-lit former youth centre in the Syrian border town of Husaybah sit two fierce looking brothers, ...
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