Construction on the John Greenleaf Whittier/Interstate 95 Bridge project was temporarily halted after a contractor was believed to have drawn offensive, taunting graffiti directed toward residents ...

In Fallujah, a town that rises abruptly out of the vast Syrian Desert an hour west of Baghdad, nearly every building left standing has some sort of hole in it. Mosques are without their minarets.

The U.S. Marines, who had military responsibility for the Sunni Arab heartland in and around Fallujah, knew it was a tinderbox and had been trying hard not to set it aflame. “Patient, persistent ...