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In September 2003, the 3rd Brigade of the 82nd Airborne was deployed to replace the 3rd Cavalry in Ramadi and Fallujah. The 3rd Cavalry was then left to control all of the al-Anbar province except for these two cities.
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.
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)
1st Advise and Assist Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division [19]: 2 2–5 Cavalry [19]: 2 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment (Advise and Assist Brigade) [19]: 15 1/3 Armored Cavalry [19]: 15 COS: Korean Village: Ar-Rutba: Al Anbar: COS: Mahmudlyah: Al-Mahmudiya: COS: Marez FOB Marez Camp Diamondback: Mosul: Nineveh: 2004
The fall of Fallujah was a battle in the city of Fallujah in western Iraq that took place from late 2013 to early 2014, ... the War in Iraq of 2013 to 2017 escalated ...
The Third Battle of Fallujah, [23] [24] [25] code-named Operation Breaking Terrorism (Arabic: عملية كسر الإرهاب) by the Iraqi government, was a military operation against ISIL launched to capture the city of Fallujah and its suburbs, located about 69 kilometres (43 mi) west of Baghdad, the capital of Iraq.
On March 24, 2004, the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force took control from the 82nd Airborne and renamed the FOB, Camp Fallujah in order to better associate the camp with the local Iraqi city. [1] On January 12, 2009, the Government of Iraq took control of the compound from the United States military.
In combination with a car bombing that killed 7 U.S. Marines and 3 Iraqi soldiers nine miles north of Fallujah, as well as an increase in IED attacks by Sunni insurgents in Baghdad, the total U.S. death toll for the Iraq war passed 1,000 on September 7, 2004.