Sunday's victory ends a month-long campaign to liberate the city from ISIS militants. Lt. General Abdul Wahab al-Saidi, commander of the liberation of Fallujah operations, said the city was liberated Sunday after recapturing the neighborhood of al-Jolan from ISIS. It was the last area of Fallujah that ISIS had controlled, he said while standing in the neighborhood.
Over 1,800 ISIS militants were killed during the military operations by the Iraqi forces to recapture the city and villages surrounding it. Two and a half years of ISIS rule in Fallujah has led to some of the bloodiest fighting to date against the terror group and has displaced thousands of Iraqis fleeing the war-torn city; those who were unable to flee were either imprisoned, executed, or pledged allegiance to ISIS out of fear. Fallujah was ISIS' last major foothold in the Anbar Province, which was only 40 km from Baghdad.
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