A series of celebrations for U.S. troop withdrawal were held peacefully in central Iraq's Fallujah city on Friday, Xinhua reported.
Fallujah, dubbed "City of Resistance" as a former bastion of anti-U.S. insurgency, launched a photo exhibition Friday at the city's Youth Center Hall, featured with photos on mass destruction and civilian casualties which were caused by the U.S. counter- insurgency campaign in 2004.
Local residents also paid tribute to the tombs of the martyrs of Fallujah, who were killed in the 2004 conflict.
Fallujah once was one of the major redoubts of Iraqi resistance immediately after the U.S.-led invasion in 2003. For weeks in April and November in 2004, Fallujah was under siege by U.S. troops. U.S. aircraft and artillery brutally bombarded the city, some 69 km west of Baghdad, killing and wounding thousands of Iraqi people.
Besides, a festival of poetry was held in the city's center of culture and science, hailing the anti-U.S efforts and the ending of the U.S. occupation.
On Wednesday, thousands of people gathered in the city to celebrate the U.S. troop pullout. The demonstrations turned fierce, as U.S. national flags were seen set on fire.
The U.S. military handed over its last base in Iraq to the Iraqi authorities on Friday, a day after the U.S. force marked the end of its mission in the country, as the remaining 4,000 U.S. soldiers are moving out on daily basis.