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The 2016 Convoy Fallujah Airstrike, an American/Iraqi bombing in 2 miles west of Amiriyah Fallujah on 28 June 2016 That killed 250-440 ISIS militants. Airstrikes destroyed around 688 vehicles believed to be carrying ISIS fighters fleeing one of their former strongholds, according a senior Iraqi official = Background = The move came nearly four weeks after the start of a U.S.-backed offensive to liberate the city, which was the last major ISIS foothold in Iraq’s Anbar province. Fierce fighting has taken place street by street, and bombs remain a concern as ISIS fighters flee the city. Many houses are booby-trapped, forcing Iraqi forces to move slowly and methodically to clear improvised explosive devices.Iraqi forces killed more than 1,800 ISIS militants during the operations to recapture the city of Falluja and villages surrounding it, ISIS appears to be on the defensive across the Middle East – from its self-declared capital of Raqqa in Syria to Falluja, a strategically important city just 65 kilometers (40 miles) from the Iraqi capital, Baghdad.

= Attack = The cars were carrying militants and some were equipped with mounted machine guns. Iraqi Airforce started to chase ISIS convoys on Tuesday. On the same day, the U.S.-led coalition destroyed those convoys alongside Iraqi F-16s.The alleged fighters were trying to escape the previously ISIS-held Fallujah area

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