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Fallujah

British  
/ fəˈlʊdʒə /

noun

  1. a town in central Iraq, about 60 km W of Baghdad; a centre of resistance against the US-led invasion of Iraq, from 2003. Pop: 223 000 (2005 est)

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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There’s a whole genre of colonoscopy dispatches, from Katie Couric to Dave Barry, describing the procedure in language better suited for covering Fallujah or “Fear Factor.”

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 3, 2026

The biggest engagements fought by Americans since the Vietnam conflict, Fallujah and Najaf were fierce, frustrating, and part of a war that was neither warmly embraced by Americans nor understood very well by them.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 6, 2025

Sanford told local outlet Clarkston News that he was a sergeant in the Marines and was deployed to Fallujah in Iraq in 2007.

From BBC Sep. 29, 2025

Unlike in Fallujah, Mosul and Raqqa, people all over the world are seeing video of the unfolding catastrophe on their computers, phones and TVs.

From Salon Nov. 18, 2023

We visited Baghdad, the U.S. military headquarters in Fallujah, and the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit encampment outside Babil, in the heart of Iraq’s so-called Sunni Triangle.

From "The World Is Flat" by Thomas L. Friedman

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