Fallujah

/ 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)

Example Sentences

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.

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The interviews for “The Last 600 Meters,” which commemorates the Iraq War battles of Fallujah and Najaf, were conducted in 2007, “while memories were still fresh.”

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When Blackwater contractors were mutilated and hanged from a Fallujah bridge in March 2004, the decision of Gen. James Mattis was to hunt down those responsible and arrest or kill them—the murderers had been rash enough to pose for pictures and the Marines had about 24 targets, according to Marine officer John Toolan.

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“We wanted to get something that represented our jobs, our service, fighting in Fallujah and Ramadi as machine gunners,” he said in a video posted on Instagram Wednesday, referring to his service in Iraq.

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

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