Iraqi Army Starts Operation to Storm IS-Held Fallujah
The Iraqi army began an operation on Monday to storm Fallujah, a stronghold of the Islamic State terror group near Baghdad, a military officer told a Reuters crew near the front line. A military unit is trying to advance in the city, he said as explosions and gunfire could be heard in Fallujah’s southern Naimiya district.
The Iraqi army, supported by Iranian-backed Shiite militia, began the operation to recapture Fallujah on May 23, first by tightening its siege around the city, 30 miles west of Baghdad, and has now begun a direct assault.
In January 2014, Fallujah became the first Iraqi city to fall under the control of the terrorists, six months before they declared a caliphate over territory seized in Iraq and Syria.
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