Recapturing Fallujah gives Iraqi forces control of the most populated areas along the Euphrates river, as well as surrounding farmland west of Baghdad.
Fallujah is predominantly Sunni Muslim, and many people in the city supported former president Saddam Hussein against the US military invasion.
Al Jazeera’s Caroline Malone reports.
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