al-Fallujah

Fallujah or al-Fallujah is a city inside the Iraqi province of Al Anbar, located kind of 69 kilometers west of Baghdad on the Euphrates. Fallujah dates from Babylonian times and become host to critical Jewish academies for many centuries. The town grew from a small metropolis in 1947 to a populace of 275,128 inhabitants in 2011. Within Iraq, it's miles referred to as the "city of mosques" for the greater than 200 mosques discovered inside the metropolis and the encompassing villages. In January 2014, the metropolis turned into captured by means of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant and suffered essential population loss.

On 23 May 2016, Iraqi forces introduced the start in their try to retake Fallujah from ISIS. On 26 June 2016 the town was d completely liberated via the Iraqi military. The place has been inhabited for many millennia. There is evidence that the region surrounding Fallujah become inhabited in Babylonian instances. The modern name of the city is thought to come back from its Syriac call, Pallgutha, that's derived from the word department or "canal regulator" since it turned into the location wherein the water of the Euphrates River divided right into a canal. Classical authors stated the call as "Pallacottas".