Iraq, 20 years on: Fallujah bears brunt of legacy of a brutal war • FRANCE 24 English

#Fallujah is one of the cities that has paid the highest price for the #US-led invasion of #Iraq two decades ago. A stronghold of support for former dictator Saddam Hussein, it quickly became the scene of brutal guerrilla warfare. The instability created by the conflict produced long-lasting effects. In particular, it laid the foundations for jihadism, giving birth to al Qaeda in Iraq, which later evolved into the Islamic State group. FRANCE 24's Lucile Wassermann reports.
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  • @lazylad8544
    @lazylad8544 Жыл бұрын

    I wish the people of Iraq peace and prosperity in the future.

  • @Burtejunior
    @Burtejunior Жыл бұрын

    It's beautiful to see the people of Fallujah recovering after the a lot of painful years. 💔

  • @denizb.4142

    @denizb.4142

    Жыл бұрын

    (2003-2017) 14 years

  • @hasithakumarasiri8343
    @hasithakumarasiri8343 Жыл бұрын

    Now Nato lecturing us about illegal invasions and democracy 😂🤡

  • @nick8874

    @nick8874

    Жыл бұрын

    the usa didnt invade iraq because they hate the existence of iraqis and want to exterminate them.....

  • @mikehawk120

    @mikehawk120

    Жыл бұрын

    Well, stop breeding in other countries, try that….

  • @seferino

    @seferino

    2 күн бұрын

    Even less You are gonna learn it from Islamic countries. 🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️💯💯🤣🤣

  • @gerardyoutube3826
    @gerardyoutube3826 Жыл бұрын

    America should be held accountable for war crimes.

  • @curiousnomadic

    @curiousnomadic

    Жыл бұрын

    I don't doubt that Russia would not be doing what it is today if it wasn't emboldened by the US blindly following Bush and Blair's lies into war.

  • @jonfee5081

    @jonfee5081

    Жыл бұрын

    Nope

  • @theonly6359

    @theonly6359

    Жыл бұрын

    @@jonfee5081why not?

  • @goranstojanov1160

    @goranstojanov1160

    Жыл бұрын

    @@jonfee5081 GO SEEK HELP!!!!

  • @egoiisticprince7977

    @egoiisticprince7977

    Жыл бұрын

    @@jonfee5081 why not? Amerixa should face sanctions

  • @camobooty2008
    @camobooty2008 Жыл бұрын

    Never found one trace of weapons of mass destruction

  • @ProjecthuntanFish

    @ProjecthuntanFish

    Жыл бұрын

    yes they did

  • @yansideabacoa6257

    @yansideabacoa6257

    Жыл бұрын

    @@ProjecthuntanFish source?

  • @ProjecthuntanFish

    @ProjecthuntanFish

    Жыл бұрын

    @@yansideabacoa6257 Go google it ! The found small amounts of WMDs and that is a fact! Also Saddam shipped most of his WMDs to Syria right before the invasion and that is a FACT as well.

  • @yansideabacoa6257

    @yansideabacoa6257

    Жыл бұрын

    @@ProjecthuntanFish source?

  • @PhysicsXO

    @PhysicsXO

    17 күн бұрын

    Trust me bro​@@yansideabacoa6257

  • @W.GlobalAffairs
    @W.GlobalAffairs Жыл бұрын

    Where is the ICC hiding this time?

  • @damienc5591

    @damienc5591

    Жыл бұрын

    They are busy covering for Zelenskyy

  • @fysalbasra
    @fysalbasra Жыл бұрын

    My everything Iraqi people and Iraqi blessed land😢 love from Pakistan Faisal (pashtoon ) pathaan

  • @FabledCity
    @FabledCity Жыл бұрын

    Absolutely excellent work. And really good access.

  • @kylerittenhouse5426
    @kylerittenhouse5426 Жыл бұрын

    What weapons........ exactly, a lie.

  • @vorlon81
    @vorlon81 Жыл бұрын

    Is the ICC going to Charge Bush and Blair and Poland as well?

  • @atamh12

    @atamh12

    Жыл бұрын

    ICC western lap dog

  • @21cranberries21

    @21cranberries21

    Жыл бұрын

    No..why?

  • @RecoveringAhole

    @RecoveringAhole

    Жыл бұрын

    Will never happen. We will never charge our Allies. They’ll probably die first before their legacy goes to crap. Same with Hillary.

  • @MoroZ4300

    @MoroZ4300

    Жыл бұрын

    They wanted to, some years back, but the US threatened the ICC, so they withdrew the investigation.

  • @sartajparveen2001

    @sartajparveen2001

    9 ай бұрын

    Why poland ?

  • @euaggeliakladi4260
    @euaggeliakladi4260 Жыл бұрын

    Two war criminals should be tried and put in prison

  • @mathewhosier9739

    @mathewhosier9739

    Жыл бұрын

    They did their job, they annihilated a ruthless dictator, mission accomplished

  • @martinrolecek8837

    @martinrolecek8837

    Жыл бұрын

    ​@@mathewhosier9739 they illegally invaded country that was minding its own busines. USA terrorists murdered 1,8milion civilians, stole everything that wasn't nailed down, raped at will, tortured innocent people and created multiple terror groups in the process. Mission complete fail and every single soldier that served there should be tried for warcrimes.

  • @ponysaurusrex5008

    @ponysaurusrex5008

    Жыл бұрын

    @@mathewhosier9739 Troll, go collect your 50 cent.

  • @AllShallBeRevealed1776
    @AllShallBeRevealed1776 Жыл бұрын

    Where are the war crimes tribunals for the Bush Administration

  • @JackMa152ddd
    @JackMa152ddd Жыл бұрын

    Get these war criminals to jail asap

  • @beingreal6499
    @beingreal6499 Жыл бұрын

    Who is the terrorist, if you Ask Iraqi and Afghan people, the reply of course will be America and it is true, For Palestinian it will be different,,

  • @denizb.4142
    @denizb.4142 Жыл бұрын

    Still no Arrest Warrant for Bush & Blair

  • @mathewhosier9739

    @mathewhosier9739

    Жыл бұрын

    For what? Ending a brutal dictatorship, killing terrorists, or removing coward terrorists from the face of the planet

  • @yansideabacoa6257

    @yansideabacoa6257

    Жыл бұрын

    @@mathewhosier9739 brainwashed, the imperialist dogs have no place on the other side of the planet

  • @malikmumtazz6333
    @malikmumtazz6333 Жыл бұрын

    As a Afghan Pashtoon I solute to my Iraqi martyrs brothers sisters,May theirs souls be in peace and blessings of Allah.we pay tribute for their courageous gallantry to Beat the Intruders, Invaders, Respect and love for all those still alive resisted the Invaders Push them out of the holy soils Of Iraq and Afghanistan.Indeed we also suffered alot while beating the enemies day night across Afghanistan particularly in Hellmond Mosa Qala,Marja,Herat,Kandahaar,konar, Nooristaan and other regions of Great Afghanistan.we thought them such a lesson they would remember for ever before invading into other Gallant Nations lands.

  • @Dennis-nc3vw

    @Dennis-nc3vw

    Жыл бұрын

    You know half the insurgents in Fallujah switched sides when they saw the evil they had brought about with their "resistance"? It was called the Anbar Awakening. The rest stayed behind to form ISIS.

  • @giftedtheos

    @giftedtheos

    14 күн бұрын

    Insurgents were terroists

  • @Brainbaskit
    @Brainbaskit Жыл бұрын

    Don't forget the role Colin Powell took in the big lie, to the face of the entire world.

  • @husseinalrasheed7031
    @husseinalrasheed7031 Жыл бұрын

    The Anti-Terrorism Service and the Special Forces that appeared at the beginning of the video cannot arrest the Shiite militias loyal to Iran, but rather work with them and receive their accounts from the treasury of the Iraqi state, unfortunately.

  • @hunterblack-kb3et

    @hunterblack-kb3et

    Жыл бұрын

    Fortunately! GLORY IRAN !!

  • @fysalbasra
    @fysalbasra Жыл бұрын

    Love Fallujah💕💕 love Basra 💕💕

  • @robertgoyette5863
    @robertgoyette5863 Жыл бұрын

    thank you for this piece. no one explains that the US armed forces invaded the city twice and basically leveled it

  • @mathewhosier9739

    @mathewhosier9739

    Жыл бұрын

    Well look at what they did to those Americans, what did they expect? Animals should be treated as such

  • @yansideabacoa6257

    @yansideabacoa6257

    Жыл бұрын

    @@mathewhosier9739 what were those pigs doing on the other side of the world? makes you wonder for what reason they were made to face the peoples’ justice. a handful of white US lives seem to be worth more than the lives of 300,000 iraqis.

  • @patrickt6642

    @patrickt6642

    Жыл бұрын

    Dragged burned bodies through streets.

  • @yansideabacoa6257

    @yansideabacoa6257

    Жыл бұрын

    @@patrickt6642 makes you wonder why

  • @tabo01

    @tabo01

    Жыл бұрын

    @@mathewhosier9739 WTF is WRONG with you? When you invade a country, YOU ARE THE TERRORISTS.

  • @milindamanchey
    @milindamanchey Жыл бұрын

    Still US military personnel who deployed committed suiside becus they did wrong...we believed in karma . One day US will pay heavy price.

  • @yansideabacoa6257

    @yansideabacoa6257

    Жыл бұрын

    @@callmekirkland8 not nearly enough

  • @sartajparveen2001

    @sartajparveen2001

    9 ай бұрын

    ​​@@callmekirkland8na dude. The worst has yet to come. And what I can see are truly one of the worst things that are coming for the US.

  • @bradynorris1653
    @bradynorris1653 Жыл бұрын

    “War is a racket”. -Marine General Smedley Butler.

  • @mansooraqureshi2696
    @mansooraqureshi2696 Жыл бұрын

    No war,no occupation.....No jahadis.

  • @stuvo1977
    @stuvo1977 Жыл бұрын

    I don't know why we invaded Iraq. Sorry to the people of Iraq.😥

  • @sendthis9480

    @sendthis9480

    Жыл бұрын

    I believe that story’s timeline begins in 1956, with the Suez Crisis.

  • @albarsalan3611

    @albarsalan3611

    Жыл бұрын

    We will not forgive you didnot Forget abu greb crime and abeer al janabi and other crimes

  • @martinrolecek8837

    @martinrolecek8837

    Жыл бұрын

    Bush wanted blood

  • @Dennis-nc3vw

    @Dennis-nc3vw

    Жыл бұрын

    @@albarsalan3611 This very day, 15 years ago, a carbomb detonated at a restaraunt Iraq killing 19 people. But you've already forgotten about that, just like all the others murders that were committed every day by the terrorists America was trying to kill and capture.

  • @Natalia_19908
    @Natalia_19908 Жыл бұрын

    i hate to see innocent children have to suffer all those things

  • @prudencendungutsemubili2991
    @prudencendungutsemubili2991 Жыл бұрын

    What lessons have world politicians learned from illegal invasion of Iraq? What lessons have the world main media learned?

  • @goodpainlive1

    @goodpainlive1

    Жыл бұрын

    they don't care. They lined their pockets and don't have care in the world 20 years later

  • @TheMiketyson9

    @TheMiketyson9

    Жыл бұрын

    Nothing!

  • @WaveRider1989

    @WaveRider1989

    Жыл бұрын

    Have workd learned anything from any past wars, some much worse then Iraq.

  • @martinrolecek8837

    @martinrolecek8837

    Жыл бұрын

    We learned that USA is above the law

  • @adamraciecki4850
    @adamraciecki4850 Жыл бұрын

    now a beautiful city that has come out of the darkness

  • @smiddlyrabone8900
    @smiddlyrabone89008 ай бұрын

    WHAT weapons of mass distruction?????

  • @IfanFidi
    @IfanFidi8 ай бұрын

    Fallujah 🖤🖤🖤🇸🇾

  • @saradjtowingllc2477
    @saradjtowingllc2477 Жыл бұрын

    Nobody knows how bad Falujjah was more than Jeremy Dewitte

  • @lopezjosejl60
    @lopezjosejl6010 ай бұрын

    Fallujah glad to see you recover..greetings from California ✌🏼💯

  • @SelfTaughtArtist1
    @SelfTaughtArtist1 Жыл бұрын

    Business as usual.

  • @stormlah
    @stormlah Жыл бұрын

    actually sad

  • @azharfarooq1141
    @azharfarooq11419 күн бұрын

    War crimes commited by us forces in Iraq should be accountable

  • @timby2383
    @timby2383 Жыл бұрын

    Murica invades: "We're bringing freedom and democracy" Russia invaders: "That's a brutal and unjustified invasion against the sovereign republic!"

  • @deleon3139

    @deleon3139

    Жыл бұрын

    One the US didn't annex Iraq like Russia did to Crimea.. two Iraq wasn't a Republic.... Third all large scale operations were finished by 2005 ..

  • @abdullaalzabi361

    @abdullaalzabi361

    Жыл бұрын

    @@deleon3139 Doesn't make it right lmfao

  • @yansideabacoa6257

    @yansideabacoa6257

    Жыл бұрын

    @@deleon3139 Republic was declared in 1958

  • @Dennis-nc3vw

    @Dennis-nc3vw

    Жыл бұрын

    Maybe because the US actually installed a democracy. Who do you think elected the Iraqi government? Do you think it was America's idea to put Sadrists in parliament?

  • @timby2383

    @timby2383

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Dennis-nc3vw did millions of dead Iraqi wanted to suffer or die for your democracy?

  • @straybirdpei
    @straybirdpei Жыл бұрын

    who is responsible for this disaster?

  • @imadimad415

    @imadimad415

    Жыл бұрын

    America and Iran

  • @theonly6359

    @theonly6359

    Жыл бұрын

    Americans and NATO

  • @belluh-1huey102

    @belluh-1huey102

    Жыл бұрын

    @@theonly6359 can't say NATO

  • @witteegameapps7031

    @witteegameapps7031

    Жыл бұрын

    Bush

  • @Mchayetx
    @Mchayetx Жыл бұрын

    Proudly from fallujah ❤ my great city

  • @eugenio1542
    @eugenio1542 Жыл бұрын

    😢☝️❤️🌍🙏

  • @Matlock901
    @Matlock9019 ай бұрын

    its time these UK Reporters stop preech Gloom And Doom over Iraq and leave these people Alone. iraq is rebuilding beautifully and is going to be ok

  • @IqraOnlineTutor
    @IqraOnlineTutor Жыл бұрын

    INformative

  • @belluh-1huey102
    @belluh-1huey102 Жыл бұрын

    cannot wait for the uneducated comments

  • @navrhy3075
    @navrhy3075 Жыл бұрын

    MARSOC Marine at 02:12

  • @roasterzz_x7544
    @roasterzz_x7544 Жыл бұрын

    Operation briefs are not like this and it's done several times. This is just an act...

  • @calizonawildtv5695
    @calizonawildtv5695 Жыл бұрын

    City of Hero’s.

  • @Dennis-nc3vw

    @Dennis-nc3vw

    Жыл бұрын

    If by heroes you mean insurgents, half of them joined the US in the Anbar Awakening after realizing the evil they were fighting for, and the other half stayed behind to form The Islamic States of Iraq, precursor to ISIS.

  • @calizonawildtv5695

    @calizonawildtv5695

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Dennis-nc3vw you know one side of the story just like a lot westerners these people were defending there land iraqi land Americans cross the ocean to go kill these people for some oil and gold .

  • @calizonawildtv5695

    @calizonawildtv5695

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Dennis-nc3vw The Anbar awakening was defense against Alqaida who makes the real fighters look bad

  • @Dennis-nc3vw

    @Dennis-nc3vw

    Жыл бұрын

    @@calizonawildtv5695 How many thousands of deaths could have been avoided if the insurgents cooperated with the US in the first place, or at least let us do our jobs instead of shooting at us?

  • @HistoryOfRevolutions
    @HistoryOfRevolutions Жыл бұрын

    The battle of Falluja was the most humiliating battle for the Americans. Americans lost hundreds of soldiers, just like the battle of Marjah in Afghanistan when the Afghan people destroyed the American Invaders.

  • @oliverbird6914

    @oliverbird6914

    Жыл бұрын

    Not sure about that...the city fell to the Americans and the insurgents suffered large casualties. I don't support the Americans doing this btw. Just the Americans razed the whole city

  • @belluh-1huey102

    @belluh-1huey102

    Жыл бұрын

    @@oliverbird6914 "razed" compare 2023 Bakmut to 2004 Fallujah. One is way more intact than the other.

  • @Jake-rs9nq

    @Jake-rs9nq

    Жыл бұрын

    @@belluh-1huey102 Well of course, the Americans took Fallujah in just 6 weeks. The shelling of Bakhmut is almost a year old.

  • @knightron

    @knightron

    Жыл бұрын

    Liar. The US only suffered less than 60 kia but the insurgents lost over a thousand personnel (kia).

  • @tomwaits9027

    @tomwaits9027

    Жыл бұрын

    this is the craziest cope ive ever seen

  • @nazia.3372
    @nazia.3372 Жыл бұрын

    Saddam Hussein Time was iraq Good Condition And Now Bad Condition....

  • @humbertycarrillo483

    @humbertycarrillo483

    Жыл бұрын

    Saddam was Bad and Brutal But now Iraq is a Disaster Of multiples Of Mercenaries and warlord from the elites from the middle east

  • @NealZ31
    @NealZ31 Жыл бұрын

    Poets & artist are the way.

  • @CyberspacedLoner
    @CyberspacedLoner Жыл бұрын

    The Last Disastrous Wars of the American Empire

  • @hansblitz7770
    @hansblitz7770 Жыл бұрын

    Operation Durka Durka Jihad complete.

  • @user-iw5ct7ti1z
    @user-iw5ct7ti1z8 ай бұрын

    Fallujah

  • @noahingram8052
    @noahingram80528 ай бұрын

    Nope not even gonna watch this 10 seconds in no no

  • @agentxcompany
    @agentxcompany Жыл бұрын

    Thanks USA

  • @Melissa-h

    @Melissa-h

    Жыл бұрын

    Yea thanks to those fools destroyed the place.

  • @dianeallen6330

    @dianeallen6330

    Жыл бұрын

    Your welcome!🇺🇸🇺🇸

  • @Hollywood-qv6jh

    @Hollywood-qv6jh

    Жыл бұрын

    You are welcome

  • @anniemihn

    @anniemihn

    Жыл бұрын

    For killing 1 million civillians including children.

  • @111t

    @111t

    Жыл бұрын

    ​@@Melissa-h The US military and terrorism are two sides of the same coin

  • @kakhaval
    @kakhaval Жыл бұрын

    Is Falluja any better than Halabja that was gassed by the brutal regime these people supported

  • @oliverbird6914

    @oliverbird6914

    Жыл бұрын

    Yes both are evil and enemies of the people. The invasion was illegal and a total disaster for Iraq

  • @Adam-gf3jg

    @Adam-gf3jg

    Жыл бұрын

    whats your source that the people of Fallujah had anything to do with it? prove your claim and stop acting like a kurdish victim

  • @kakhaval

    @kakhaval

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Adam-gf3jg Kalil Al-Duleimi was Saddam's lawyer and he is from Sunni triangle. After Saddam's execution he claimed the moon was crying for Saddam while showing photo of a crying moon on Aljazeera TV. This is example of their distorted blind loyalty.

  • @juamu1132

    @juamu1132

    Жыл бұрын

    @@kakhaval you expect them to care of halabja after what the americans did? what fantasy world are you living?

  • @belluh-1huey102

    @belluh-1huey102

    Жыл бұрын

    @@juamu1132 Looking at it now, they should, as Mahdi wound up controlling the government.

  • @scottjenkins6972
    @scottjenkins6972 Жыл бұрын

    Boooo hoooo