The Iraqi city of Fallujah is devastated after a week of intense fighting that has left at least 1200 Iraqis dead.

A reporter from the London Independent reports, “US warplanes, tanks and mortars have left a shattered landscape of gutted buildings, crushed cars and charred bodies. A drive through the city revealed a picture of utter destruction, with concrete houses flattened, mosques in ruins, telegraph poles down, power and phone lines hanging slack and rubble and human remains littering the empty streets.”

Al Jazeera reports that as many as half of the city’s mosques have been destroyed.

While the U.S. military claims most of the city is now under their control the BBC reports the Iraqi resistance is putting up an intense fight in the southern part of the city.