Iraqi forces closed in on the key Islamic State (Daesh) stronghold of Tikrit Tuesday, their progress slowed by jihadist snipers and booby traps, on the second day of Baghdad's largest operation ...

US troops moved into Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit yesterday as a senior defence ... without a fight as they rolled past abandoned Iraqi military equipment. As fighting wound down, US ...

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US forces have been "actively engaging" Iraqi troops in Tikrit -- Saddam Hussein's home town and likely the last stronghold of his resistance, said Lieutenant Mark Kitchens, a spokesman at US ...

(JTA) — Near the start of the Iraq War in 2003, David Goldstrom found himself leading a Yom Kippur service for about 50 soldiers in one of Saddam Hussein’s former palaces in Tikrit, Iraq.

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Iraqi forces have managed to retake Tikrit's military hospital in their major operation against Daesh to liberate the strategic northern city. According to Press TV correspondent near Tikrit ...

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