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- First Battle of Fallujah, U.S. military campaign during the Iraq War that began April 4 and ended May 1, 2004. Its goal was to pacify the city of Fallujah in Iraq, rid it of extremists and insurgents, and find those responsible for the March 31 ambush and killing of four American military contractors.
www.britannica.com/event/First-Battle-of-FallujahFirst Battle of Fallujah (April−May 2004) | Iraq insurgency ...
Nov 10, 2014 · Ten years ago, US troops and coalition forces fought their deadliest battle since the Vietnam War when they pushed into the Iraqi city of Falluja to root out Sunni insurgents. The BBC's Paul...
Second Battle of Fallujah. The Second Battle of Fallujah, initially codenamed Operation Phantom Fury, Operation al-Fajr (Arabic: الفجر, lit. 'The Dawn') was an American-led offensive of the Iraq War that lasted roughly six weeks, starting 7 November 2004.
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Second Battle of Fallujah, joint American, Iraqi, and British military campaign from November 7 to December 23, 2004, during the Iraq War that crushed the Islamic insurgents in Fallujah, Iraq, in the Sunni Muslim province of Al-Anbar.
The First Battle of Fallujah (April 4–May 1, 2004) was a U.S. military campaign during the Iraq War intended to pacify the city of Fallujah in Iraq and find those responsible for the March 31 ambush and killing of four American military contractors.
2 days ago · Marine veteran Alex Nicoll remembers Fallujah, Iraq, as a dead city. When he and others from Company K, 3rd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, stepped foot inside the “City of Mosques” in early November 2004, nearly all of the residents were gone. Leaflets dropped by U.S. forces warned of an impending attack and told them to get out.
Nov 9, 2014 · The U.S. military is good at dissecting a battle - lessons learned, they call it. What worked? What didn't? But bigger questions - why the battle was waged, and at what cost?
May 23, 2023 · Eighty-two U.S. servicemembers died during the street-by-street, house-by-house effort to clear Al Qaeda from the city, making Fallujah the deadliest battle involving U.S. Marines since Vietnam...
