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Second Battle of Fallujah

Second Battle of Fallujah
(Operation Phantom Fury)
Part of the Iraq War
4-14 Marines in Fallujah.jpg
U.S. Marines from Mike Battery, 4th Battalion, 14th Marines, operate the 155mm M198 howitzer at Camp Fallujah, November 2004.
Date 7 November – 23 December 2004
(1 month, 2 weeks and 2 days)
Location Fallujah, Iraq
Result Coalition victory
Belligerents
 United States
 Republic of Iraq
 United Kingdom
Iraqi insurgents
al-Qaeda in Iraq
Commanders and leaders
United States Richard F. Natonski
United States Keith Stalder
United States James Mattis
United Kingdom James Cowan

Abu Musab al-Zarqawi
(Commander of Jama'at al-Tawhid wal-Jihad)
Abdullah Jannabi
(Preacher)
Omar Hadid 
(Field Commander)
Abu Ayyub al-Masri
Abdullah Shaddad
(Field Commander)

Saleem-Banishari 
(Ansar-ul-Islam Commander)
Strength

United States 10,500 troops
Iraq 2,000 security forces
United Kingdom 850 troops

Total: 13,350 troops
≈3,700–4,000 insurgents
Casualties and losses
American:
95 killed, 560 wounded
(54 killed and 425 wounded from 7 to 16 November)
Iraqi:
8 killed, 43 wounded
British:
4 killed, 10 wounded
Total: 107 killed, 613 wounded
1,200–1,500 killed
1,500 captured
Unknown number of civilians killed

Abu Musab al-Zarqawi
(Commander of Jama'at al-Tawhid wal-Jihad)
Abdullah Jannabi
(Preacher)
Omar Hadid 
(Field Commander)
Abu Ayyub al-Masri
Abdullah Shaddad
(Field Commander)

United States 10,500 troops
Iraq 2,000 security forces
United Kingdom 850 troops


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