The American and Iraqi governments proclaimed the “full liberation” of the Iraqi city of Fallujah this week, bringing to an end, at least officially, the Third Battle of Fallujah. Please try again later.
Lieutenant General John F. Sattler and Major General Richard F. Natonski led 15,000 American and Coalition troops against approximately 5,000 insurgent fighters led by Abdullah al-Janabi and Omar Hussein Hadid.
Second Battle of Fallujah, (November 7–December 23, 2004), also called Operation Al-Fajr (“Dawn”) and Operation Phantom Fury, joint American, Iraqi, and British military campaign during the Iraq War that crushed the Islamic insurgents in Fallujah, Iraq, in the Sunni Muslim province of Al-Anbar. This feature is not available right now. But because some of the bodies had been hit by both U.S. and Iraqi weapons, investigators could confirm only …
The Second Battle of Fallujah was fought November 7 to 16, 2004, during the Iraq War (2003-2011). Eighteen Marines were killed during a battle March 23, 2003, in Nasiriya. Fallujah represented a shift in the Iraq … Fifteen years after the beginning of the battle of Fallujah, VICE News spoke with survivors of the Hell House.
Watch this insane footage of marines battling in Fallujah.