US forces pounded suspected rebel targets around Iraq’s flash-point city of Fallujah on Saturday after a heavy night of air raids and a foray by Marines into its outskirts, an Agence France-Presse reporter said.

Artillery fire erupted in the area at about 11 a.m. (4 a.m. in Manila), said the AFP correspondent who is embedded with the US Marines.

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