Iraqi forces advance into militant-held #Tikrit Baghdad
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Iraqi security forces advanced into militant-held Tikrit on Tuesday in an assault aimed at revitalizing flagging efforts to retake the city, officials said. Security forces began the attack on Tuesday morning and have succeeded in retaking government facilities in the city’s south. “Iraqi forces began a military operation to liberate the city of Tikrit and our forces were able to control the southern part of the city,” Ahmed Abdullah Juburi, the governor of Salaheddin province of which Tikrit is the capital, told AFP. read more