Fallujah [a] (Arabic: ٱلْفَلُّوجَة al-Fallūjah [el.fɐl.ˈluː.dʒɐ]) is a city in Al Anbar Governorate, Iraq.Situated on the Euphrates River, it is located roughly 69 kilometres (43 mi) to the west of the capital city of Baghdad and 50 kilometres (31 mi) from the neighboring city of Ramadi.The city is located in the region defined as Sunni Triangle by the United States, as ...

The marines treated Falluja as if its only inhabitants were fighters. They leveled thousands of buildings, illegally denied access to the Iraqi Red Crescent and, according to the UN's special rapporteur, used "hunger and deprivation of water as a …

Fallujah, city, Al-Anbār muḥāfaẓah (governorate), central Iraq.The city lies on the eastern bank of the Euphrates River, about 50 km (30 miles) downstream of Al-Ramādī, the capital of the governorate, and 65 km (40 miles) west of Baghdad.. History. Fallujah is situated near the site of the ancient Persian town of Massice (Misikhe), whose ruins lie a …

According to Mike Marqusee of Iraq Occupation Focus writing in The Guardian, [50] "Falluja's compensation commissioner has reported that 36,000 of the city's 50,000 homes were destroyed, along with 60 schools and 65 mosques and shrines". Reconstruction is only progressing slowly and mainly consists of clearing rubble from heavily damaged areas ...

2016年6月3日 · Falluja’s story is a long and sad one, but it’s important to know it to understand the bloodshed of today. Before it gained notoriety as hell on earth, Falluja was called the city of mosques ...

2023年3月22日 · Areas of Fallujah were leveled in two huge battles 20 years ago when the U.S. invaded Iraq. ISIS took it over and was driven out in 2016. Today, it is a very different city, but the memories remain.

2016年6月1日 · Falluja was the first Iraqi city captured by ISIS in January 2014 -- dealing a significant blow to Iraq as well as Western countries trying to contain or eradicate the terror group.

2024年11月14日 · Five days after President Bush is reelected, the Marines initiate Task Force Wolfpack.The assault consists of a company from the Marines’ 3rd Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, a reinforced infantry company from 1st Battalion, 23d Marines, a reinforced mechanized infantry company from the U.S. Army’s 1st Battalion, 9th Infantry Regiment, and the Iraqi 36th Commando Battalion.

2024年11月7日 · Twenty years ago today, on the evening of November 7, 2004, a small task force entered the city of Fallujah. Composed of a US Marine reconnaissance company, a Marine infantry company, a US Army mechanized infantry company, and an Iraqi commando battalion, the task force quickly secured a hospital and two nearby bridges spanning the

2014年11月10日 · 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.