Iraqi Prime Minister Haider Al-Abadi has announced the launch of a major operation to retake the city of Fallujah from ISIS. Al Jazeera reports heavy shelling in the area has killed six civilians. Fallujah became the first Iraqi city conquered by ISIS in January 2014. A decade earlier, after the U.S. invasion of Iraq, the U.S. push to recapture Fallujah involved the extensive use of depleted uranium and white phosphorus, leaving a legacy of birth defects that continues today.