First families return to homes in Iraq's Fallujah

[WorldNews]

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The Iraqi police and army had decked out the checkpoints with plastic flowers to welcome the first returning Fallujah residents following the city's recapture from jihadists in June. "Today feels like a rebirth," said Fawaz al-Kobaisi, whose family was among Saturday's first batch of Fallujah returnees. The 70-year-old's family left in the early days of jihadist rule over Fallujah, before the Islamic State group even launched its broad June 2014 offensive across Iraq.

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