Third Battle of Fallujah

BelligerentsIraq
Support:
CJTF-OIR
(Air support)ISILCommanders and leadersHaidar al-Abadi
(Prime Minister)
Khaled al-Obaidi
(Defense Minister)
Lt. Gen. Abdel-Wahab al-Saadi
(Overall commander of the operation)
Lt. Gen. Raed Shaker Jawdat
(Chief of the Iraqi Federal Police)
Maj. Gen. Fadhil Barwari
(ICTS commander) Staff Maj. Gen.
Lt. Col. Hashim Ismail †
(1st Division's Commando Regiments commander)

(Mayor of Fallujah)
Maher al-Bilawi †
(Fallujah top commander)
Ahmed Majeed †
(Fallujah security chief)
Abu Ubaydah al-Ansari †Units involved

• Iraq Armed Forces
  • Army
  • Counter-Terrorism Service (CTS)
  • Air Force
• Federal Police
• Popular Mobilization Forces
• Saraya Ansar al-Aqeeda

Military of ISIL

• Al-Hisbah (Religious Police)

Strength

11,000–14,500 fighters

• 7,000–10,500 Iraqi soldiers
• 4,000 PMF militiamen

10,500 militantsCasualties and losses 394–900+ killed,
3,308 wounded 2,500+ killed,
2,186 captured 112 civilians killed
85,000+ civilians displaced

The Third Battle of Fallujah, code-named Operation Breaking Terrorism (Arabic: عملية كسر الإرهاب) by the Iraqi government, was a military operation against ISIL launched to capture the city of Fallujah and its suburbs, located about 69 kilometres (43 mi) west of Baghdad, the capital of Iraq. The operation began on 22 May 2016, three months after the Iraqi forces had started the total siege of Fallujah. On 26 June, Iraqi forces recaptured the city of Fallujah, before recapturing the remaining pocket of ISIL resistance in Fallujah's western outskirts two days later.