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Second Battle of Fallujah
The
Second Battle of Fallujah
—
code-named
Operation
Al-Fajr
(
Arabic
: الفجر "the dawn") and
Operation Phantom Fury
—was a joint American, Iraqi, and British
offensive
in November and December 2004, considered the highest point of conflict in
Fallujah during the Iraq War
. It was led by the
U.S. Marine Corps
against the
Iraqi insurgency
stronghold in the city of
Fallujah
and was authorized by the U.S.-appointed
Iraqi Interim Government
. The U.S. military called it "some of the heaviest
urban combat
U.S. Marines have been involved in since the
Battle of Huế City
in Vietnam in 1968."
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