Amiriyah Fallujah
Amiriyah Fallujah
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| Hosts 31 displaced persons camps (11,661 people as of 2019). Site of hostage crisis during the Gulf War and heavy clashes in the Iraq War and Siege of Fallujah (2016). |
Al-Amiriyah (
The city was named Amiriyah Fallujah after the
During the lead up to the Gulf War in 1990, several Western hostages were held as a human shield at a suspected ammunition factory in the area from September 1990 until their release 6 December 1990. These included a crew member from British Airways Flight 149. Nationals of Britain, Japan, France, and Serbia were held on the site. Only the British were detained until December, the French and Japanese being released in October and November 1990 respectively. The nature of their internment makes it difficult to pinpoint the exact location, but they were told by their Iraqi minders that they were at "a factory in Amiriyah"
During the
police had taken control over the city.In 2016, during the Siege of Fallujah, there was intense fighting in the area between the Iraqi army and IS militants.[2] Several suicide attacks by IS were also reported.[3][4]
References
- ^ CCCM Iraq Camp Master List and Population Flow, Reliefweb
- ^ Iraqi army bombard 20 ISIS rocket launchers in Anbar Province, Iraqinews.com
- ^ "Almasdarnews: ISIS attack kills 100 Iraqi soldiers in Fallujah". Archived from the original on 2017-08-18. Retrieved 2016-05-16.
- ^ ISIS suicide attacks kills, wounds 20 security members in Amiriya Fallujah, Iraqinews.com
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