FALLUJAH, Iraq -- U.S. army teams fought insurgent bands in Fallujah Friday, and Marines went door-to-door in the southern part of the Sunni city hunting weapons.
The five-day assault against the militant stronghold has left 18 U.S. fighters and five Iraqi soldiers dead and more than 200 wounded, CNN reported.
An estimated 600 insurgents have been killed in the offensive, officials said.
A U.S. Army unit clearing an industrial section of Fallujah found "almost at every turn buildings wired to explode, bombs in the making, anti-tank mines, weapons lying around," a CNN reporter said. "The whole place was an arms cache.
"There isn't a block where there hasn't been a building that has been flattened, a tank round through it or a bomb dropped on it," she said.
Foreign fighters have been found among the bodies of insurgents killed in the fighting, particularly Sudanese and Egyptians who have been identified by their passports and physical features.
