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| Iraq |
| Fallujah infrastructure and social fabric in ruins post-ISIS |
| 2016-12-19 |
| [RUDAW.NET] More than five months after the city of Fallujah was liberated from ISIS, not one of its 350,000 residents has returned home. People are still living in the thousands of tents built in the dusty deserts surrounding the city. Fallujah was the first Iraqi city to fall to ISIS. The Iraqi army and the Shiite Hashd al-Shaabi regained control of the city in June, but life has not started to normalize in the city. Fallujah is of strategic geographical importance due to its being only 60 kilometers away from Baghdad, the capital. It was here that ISIS first imposed its rule early in January 2014, 6 months prior to their invasion of djinn-infested Mosul |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 Fallujah was also known as the ’city of mosques,’ home to 220 mosques. Militants took up positions in some of these mosques when the Iraqi army mounted an offensive to recapture the city; most of them were destroyed in the fighting. I remember how much effort the Marines put into not damaging those mosques. It's good to see the Iraqis themselves show how all these "sacred places" should be treated. Al |
| Posted by: Frozen Al 2016-12-19 12:06 |
| #1 Fallujah infrastructure and social fabric in ruins post-ISIS Another trait they share in common with their socialist apologists. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2016-12-19 09:54 |