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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 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...
The Iraqi city of Fallujah has become an epicenter of geopolitical conflict, where foreign powers and non-state actors have repeatedly waged war in residential neighborhoods with staggering humanitarian consequences.
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 Road to Fallujah, a 2009 documentary following the story of Mark Manning, the only westerner to live among the residents of Fallujah following the November 2004 battle. Fear Not the Path of Truth , [ 100 ] a 2013 documentary film from Ross Caputi, a veteran of the 2nd siege of Fallujah who investigates atrocities that occurred and the legacy of US foreign policy in Fallujah.
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Fallujah, a city west of Baghdad, had become an insurgent stronghold after the 2003 invasion of Iraq. The city’s fierce resistance was symbolized by the ambush and killing of four Blackwater contractors in March 2004, which led to the first, unsuccessful attempt to reclaim the city.
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Operation AL FAJR—the second Battle for Fallujah in November 2004—was a hard- fought, Coalition-led combat assault to clear the city of insurgents and restore Fallujah to its rightful residents.
