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ANMAR KHALIL

Fallujah, Iraq— Iraqi security forces evacuate an injured soldier during heavy fighting against Islamic State (ISIS) militants on June 15. The city was a bastion of the Sunni insurgency against U.S. forces after the 2003 invasion, and ISIS took it over in early 2014 Tens of thousands of civilians have fled since Iraqi government forces, backed by Shiite militias and U.S. airstrikes, launched an assault to retake Fallujah in late May. Security forces entered the city center on June 17, but they continued to battle ISIS militants in parts of the city in the following days.

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