Third Battle of Fallujah
The Third Battle of Fallujah, 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 the Iraqi capital Baghdad. The operation began on 22 May 2016, three months after the Iraqi forces had started the total siege of Fallujah. On 26 June, Iraqi forces recaptured the city of Fallujah, before recapturing the remaining pocket of ISIL resistance in Fallujah's western outskirts two days later.
| Battle of Fallujah (2016) | |||||||||
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| Part of the War in Iraq, the Anbar campaign (2015–16), and the aftermath of the Siege of Fallujah (2016) | |||||||||
Fallujah operations on 22–23 May | |||||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||||
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Iraq Support: CJTF-OIR (Air support) | |||||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||||
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Haidar al-Abadi (Prime Minister) Khaled al-Obaidi (Defense Minister) Lt. Gen. Abdel-Wahab al-Saadi (Overall commander of the operation) Lt. Gen. Raed Shaker Jawdat (Chief of the Iraqi Federal Police) Maj. Gen. Fadhil Barwari (ICTS commander) Staff Maj. Gen. Ismail al-Mahalawi Lt. Col. Hashim Ismail † (1st Division's Commando Regiments commander) Esa al-Esawi (Mayor of Fallujah) |
Maher al-Bilawi † (Fallujah top commander) Ahmed Majeed † (Fallujah security chief) Abu Ubaydah al-Ansari † | ||||||||
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Iraq:
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11,000–14,500 fighters
| 3,500–4,000 militants | ||||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||||
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394–900+ killed, 3,308 wounded |
2,848+ killed, 2,186 captured | ||||||||
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112 civilians killed 85,000+ civilians displaced | |||||||||
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