Militarily the United States and Iraq's interim government seem to have won a clear victory in Fallujah. Their forces, including token Iraqi units, claim to control the entire town, though they are still going door-to-door looking for diehard fighters in houses, mosques and even tunnels. They say they have killed 1,600-plus insurgents out of 3,000-odd thought to have been holed up in the town, at a cost, so far, of around 40 American and six pro-government Iraqi troops dead and several hundred wounded. No humanitarian teams were allowed to operate in Fallujah during the siege, nor is it clear how many of the town's 300,000 or so civilians were left (some say all but 50,000 fled), so the number of civilian casualties is unknown.
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