Vigilant Resolve. Fallujah is a city in the Al Anbar Province. It sits on the Euphrates River about 35 miles west of Baghdad. When the war kicked off in March 2003 US Forces left Fallujah, for the most part, alone. They figured it had no real tactical advantage and so, while keeping it under the supervision and control of the 82nd Airborne Division, did not try to take the city. Before the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force (I MEF) took over control of the Al Anbar Province on 24 March 2004 Fallujah had