Following Operation Steel Curtain, in which US Marines and Iraqi Army units swept the city of insurgents, the streets were secured by a combination of Iraqi Army and Marine forces.
Operation Steel Curtain – sometimes referred to as the "Second Battle of Husaybah"
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