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Casey Jr., Jordanian, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, leader of the insurgent faction in Fallujah, is believed to have fled the city as of 9 November 2004.

However, according to the head of CENTCOM, Gen. officials estimated that 2,000-3,000 hardcore insurgents were entrenched in the city at the time the assault began.

military officials believed that 70-90 percent of the city's population had fled. Fallujah had a population of approximately 300,000 civilians but U.S. The assault on the city was an attempt to regain control of the city from insurgents in preparation for national elections scheduled for January 2005. Casey Jr., the top American commander in Iraq, acknowledged that an unknown number of the Iraqis did not show up. commanders expected about 2,000 members of Iraqi Security Forces to fight with American troops but Gen. A number of trained Iraqi forces also particpated in the operation. This followed weeks of aerial bombardment by U.S. It was later renamed Operation al-Fajr (Arabic for Dawn) by the Iraqi Defence Minister.Īn estimated 10,000-15,000 American troops launched Operation Phantom Fury in Fallujah on November 8, 2004. There are a few concrete buildings, while the rest of the base consists of tents and less significant sleeping facilities.This operation was initially named Phantom Fury by DoD. The base is basically a small human community in the middle of a plain arid field. The facilities on site are not among the greatest in the world. Since the new Iraqi Army is not entirely built yet, the unit doesn’t have any subdivisions, companies or groups. The only unit hosted at Camp Fallujah is the 1-st Division, part of the Iraqi Army. Both of these operations were lead and conducted by the American forces. These days, the base hosts the headquarters of this important unit of the Iraqi Army.Īmong the most important operations Camp Fallujah was part of, you can count Operation Iraqi Freedom and its two less important operations – Operation Phantom Fury and Operation Vigilant Resolve. In the first days of 2009, the Iraqi government took over and installed the 1-st Division on site. Therefore, they found appropriate to pass by the control of this base to the new Iraqi Army. By that time, they also took over Iraq and installed a government to support their actions. In 2009, the United States of America realized that the base was not that important for its mission in Iraq. That was the moment when the military base was turned into an expeditionary base. The base was then turned over to the 1-st Marine Expeditionary Force in the spring of 2004. These days, the MEK and the American forces have a little armistice and cease fire agreement. Although this fight had nothing to do with the so called liberation of Iraq, no measures were taken. The 82-nd Airborne group of the US Army took over the base after the MEK troops surrendered. Camp Fallujah was used as a training site. In 2003, the American invasion of Iraq forced the MEK to give up some of its military bases. However, Saddam Hussein decided to support them and hosted the units on the Iraqi territories, from where they conducted multiple attacks on the Iranian military forces that tried to exterminate them. Its life in Iran was not too long, as they were overrun by their enemies. They decided to fight against the invasion of the western imperialism and established headquarters in both Iraq and France. It was founded in the ’60s by a group of students that decided their country should never be the subject of the western powers for various local resources. MEK is an Iranian organization dealing with various political events. The base was initially used by the Mujahideen e Khalg people. It is an expeditionary base involved in many of the recent local conflicts.

These days, the bases is operated by the Iraqi Army. Dreamland was known as Camp Baharia among the US troops. The base is relatively small and is adjacent to another base nearby – Dreamland. Still commonly referred to as Camp Fallujah, MEK Compound is a military base located in Fallujah and used for the common conflicts in Iraq.