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On 25 February, the Iraqi governor of Anbar province stated that the battle for Fallujah would begin soon, and that it would be much shorter than the battle for Ramadi. [36] On the same day, the Iraqi Army tightened their siege on Fallujah, [3] pushing into the outskirts of the city and securing all of the bridges leading into the city.
The Battle of Fallujah (2016), part of the larger campaign against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), was marked by allegations of war crimes committed by both ISIL and Iraqi state forces, including allied militias. These violations, which included extrajudicial killings, torture, and the use of human shields, caused significant ...
The next day Prime Minister Iyad Allawi publicly authorized an offensive in Fallujah and Ramadi to "liberate the people" and "clean Fallujah from the terrorists". Marines, U.S. Army soldiers and allied Iraqi soldiers stormed into Fallujah's western outskirts, secured two bridges across the Euphrates, seized a hospital on the outskirts of the ...
The Anbar campaign (2015–2016) was a military campaign launched by the Iraqi Armed Forces and their allies aimed at recapturing areas of the Anbar Governorate held by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), including the city of Ramadi, which ISIL seized earlier in 2015.
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 began on 7 November 2004 and lasted about six weeks.
White phosphorus (WP) is a chemical smoke-producing agent, reacting quickly and spontaneously with air and causing an instant bank of smoke. As a result, WP munitions are common, particularly as smoke grenades for infantry, loaded in defensive grenade dischargers on tanks and other armored vehicles, or as part of the ammunition allotment for artillery or mortars.
War depictions in film and television include documentaries, TV mini-series, and drama serials depicting aspects of historical wars. The films included here are films set in the time period from 2001 to present day, or from the moment the world woke up to a new reality one September morning at the dawn of a new century, the 9/11 attacks were followed by the War on Terrorism, which has now ...
First Fights in Fallujah: Marines During Operation Vigilant Resolve, in Iraq, April 2004. Philadelphia: Casemate. ISBN 9781636243184. No True Glory: A Frontline Account of the Battle for Fallujah, by Bing West (2005) (ISBN 978-0-553-80402-7) Blood Stripes: The Grunt's View of the War in Iraq, by David J. Danelo (2007) (ISBN 978-0-8117-3393-9)