Siege of Saqlawiyah | |||||||
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Part of the Iraqi Civil War (2014–2017) | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant | |||||||
Strength | |||||||
820[1] | unknown | ||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||
300–500 killed, captured or missing[1](40–300 killed 68 captured)[1][2] | 14 killed[3] |
The siege of Saqlawiyah was a siege of the town of Saqlawiyah (north of Fallujah, 50 km west of Baghdad) by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS or ISIL) during the War in Iraq of 2013 to 2017.