[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 |