TIKRIT, Iraq -- Iraqi troops clashed along two fronts with Islamic State militants Thursday in Tikrit as rockets and mortars echoed across Saddam Hussein's hometown a day after soldiers and allied ...

TIKRIT, Iraq (AP) — The government declared victory in Tikrit on Wednesday over extremists of the Islamic State group, and it warned the militants holding other Iraqi provinces that they would be the ...

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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Thousands of Iraqi soldiers and Shi'ite militiamen sought to seal off Islamic State fighters in Tikrit and nearby towns on Tuesday, the second day of Iraq's biggest offensive yet ...

TIKRIT, Iraq (AP) — Iraqi troops started the final phase of an offensive to recapture Saddam Hussein’s hometown of Tikrit on Thursday, a military official said, just hours after the United States ...

WASHINGTON -- At Iraq's request, the U.S. began airstrikes in Tikrit on Wednesday in support of a stalled Iraqi ground offensive to retake the city from Islamic State fighters. The bombing marked a ...

Some 30,000 Iraqi troops and militia backed by aircraft pounded jihadist positions in and around Tikrit on Monday in the biggest offensive yet to retake one of the Islamic State group's main ...

BAGHDAD (AP) — Skirmishes broke out Tuesday between Iraqi security forces and militants on the outskirts of Tikrit, a local official and a resident said, a day after the Iraqi and Kurdish troops ...

TIKRIT, Iraq (AP) — Iraq declared a "magnificent victory" Wednesday over the Islamic State group in Tikrit, a key step in driving the militants out of their biggest strongholds. Iraqi Defense Minister ...

TIKRIT, Iraq -- The twin Saddam Husseins that galloped in heroic statuary on horseback atop the gate to his compound here are gone, melted down to make a memorial of a U.S. soldier being comforted by ...

TIKRIT, Iraq, April 15 -- During Saddam Hussein's rule, every Iraqi town big enough to have a public school or a police station had at least a few larger-than-life portraits of the president. Here in ...