Fallujah
Anbar Province city
Fallujah is a city in central Iraq, west of Baghdad in Anbar Province.
It became internationally prominent during the Iraq War, when U.S. forces fought two major battles there in 2004 against insurgents.
The name evokes intense urban combat and controversy over civilian casualties: The siege of Fallujah was one of the bloodiest engagements of the war.
Major Iraqi river
- BaghdadIraqi seat of government
- RamadiIraqi provincial capital
- SunniIslam's largest branch adherent
- MosulIraqi city on Tigris
Tikrit · Basra · Tigris · Iraqi · Arabic · Middle East · Saddam Hussein · desert
Encirclement forcing surrender
- assaultViolent offensive act
- casualtiesThose killed or wounded
- urban warfareCombat in built environments
- snipersConcealed precision shooters
IEDs · ambush · insurgents · coalition · infantry · artillery · firefight · offensive
Tigris-Euphrates river region
- BabylonAncient Mesopotamian capital
- EuphratesMajor Iraqi river
- SumerAncient southern Mesopotamia
- AssyriaAncient Mesopotamian empire
cuneiform · ziggurat · Tigris · Hammurabi · Nebuchadnezzar · Ur · ancient · cradle of civilization
Rebuilding after destruction
- refugeesPeople seeking safety elsewhere
- displacementRemoval from usual location
- destructionAct of completely ruining
- rubbleBroken building fragments
rebuilding · humanitarian · trauma · birth defects · depleted uranium · white phosphorus · civilian casualties · infrastructure
Euphrates
Major Iraqi river
Mosul · Tikrit · Basra · Tigris · Iraqi · Arabic · Middle East · Saddam Hussein · desert · province
siege
Encirclement forcing surrender
- assaultViolent offensive act
- casualtiesThose killed or wounded
- urban warfareCombat in built environments
snipers · IEDs · ambush · insurgents · coalition · infantry · artillery · firefight · offensive · checkpoint
Mesopotamia
Tigris-Euphrates river region
Assyria · cuneiform · ziggurat · Tigris · Hammurabi · Nebuchadnezzar · Ur · ancient · cradle of civilization · irrigation
reconstruction
Rebuilding after destruction
- refugeesPeople seeking safety elsewhere
- displacementRemoval from usual location
- destructionAct of completely ruining
rubble · rebuilding · humanitarian · trauma · birth defects · depleted uranium · white phosphorus · civilian casualties · infrastructure · recovery
- American BattlesGettysburg, Antietam, Bunker Hill, Yorktown, Lexington
- IraqBaghdad, Basra, Mosul, Kurdistan, Ramadi
- Conflict ZonesGaza, Ukraine, Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq
- War on TerrorOsama bin Laden, IED, Guantanamo, regime change, troop surge
- Anbar ProvinceRamadi, Ana, Euphrates River, subdistrict, municipal council
- American WarsRevolutionary War, War of 1812, Civil War, Spanish-American War, World War I
FallujahKurdistan
Kurdish people's traditional territory
Dubai · Green Zone · post-war reconstruction · Abu Dhabi · Amman
FallujahGeneva
Swiss seat of diplomacy
Switzerland · safe zone · demilitarized zone · sanctuary · neutral ground