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U.S. Marines assaulted insurgents in Fallujah with helicopter gunships and bombing strikes for a third day Wednesday. Rajiv Chandrasekaran of The Washington Post, who has been embedded with U.S. Marines in the city, provides an update.

While U.S. news organizations often report a running tally of Americans killed in Iraq, the total number of Iraqi casualties, both civilians and insurgents, is reported on less often. Ray Suarez gets three perspectives on the challenges of accurately reporting…

Department of Defense spokesman Bryan Whitman and Dana Milbank of The Washington Post debate the Pentagon's ban on media coverage of the return of fallen service members that was broken twice this week.

Violence across Iraq has increased the security risks for private-sector companies working to rebuild the country. Ray Suarez discusses the challenges these contractors face with Stan Soloway of the Professional Services Council and Sheba Crocker from the Center for Strategic…

Conditions in Iraq have become so treacherous for journalists that the networks and cable channels have taken the unusual step of coordinating their coverage in unprecedented ways.Terence Smith discusses reporting in Iraq with John Burns, Baghdad bureau chief of The…