#tikrit

Reprise de Tikrit et traque des complices des terroristes
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L’une des grandes villes irakiennes récupérée des mains des terroristes du Daesh, première des importantes localités est Tikrit, lieu de naissance de Saddam Hussein. Libérée au bout de 2 mois de dures batailles qui ont commencé avec le nettoyage des villages environnants. De même est arrivé à Kobané sur le territoire syrien, pour laquelle il a fallu 4 mois de combats. Maintenant les peshmergas, les milices chiites et les éléments de l’armée régulière irakienne qui ont reconquis cette cité, occupée par (...)

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#ISIS Bulldozes Ancient Assyrian City: Iraqi Gov’t
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A file picture taken on July 17, 2001 shows Iraqi workers cleaning a statue of winged bull at an archeological site in #Nimrud, 35 Kilometers (22 miles) southeast of the northern city of #Mosul. AFP/Karim Sahib A file picture taken on July 17, 2001 shows Iraqi workers cleaning a statue of winged bull at an archeological site in Nimrud, 35 Kilometers (22 miles) southeast of the northern city of Mosul. AFP/Karim Sahib

The Islamic State of #Iraq and Syria (ISIS) group has begun bulldozing the ancient Assyrian city of Nimrud in Iraq, the government said, in the jihadists’ latest attack on the country’s historical #heritage. ISIS “assaulted the historic city of Nimrud and bulldozed it with heavy vehicles,” the tourism and (...)

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#ISIS Torches #Oil Field East of #Tikrit as Iraqi Army Pushes #Mosul Offensive Forward
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Iraqi government forces and allied militias gesture as they hold the national flag in the northern part of Diyala province, bordering #Salahuddin province, as they take part in an assault to retake the city of Tikrit from jihadists of the Islamic State of #Iraq and Syria (ISIS) group, on March 4, 2015. AFP/Younis al-Bayati Iraqi government forces and allied militias gesture as they hold the national flag in the northern part of Diyala province, bordering Salahuddin province, as they take part in an assault to retake the city of Tikrit from jihadists of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) group, on March 4, 2015. AFP/Younis al-Bayati

Updated at 3:40 am/pm (GMT+ 2): Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) militants (...)

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Outgunned Iraqi army retreats from #Tikrit
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Iraqi forces have withdrawn from the militant-held northern Iraqi city of Tikrit after a new push to retake the city met heavy resistance, a soldier who fought in the battle said on Wednesday. Government troops and allied volunteer fighters were forced to retreat just before sunset on Tuesday to a base four kilometers (2.5 miles) south after coming under heavy mortar shelling and sniper fire, the sources said. The attempt to retake Tikrit, which fell on June 12 to insurgents led by the militant Islamic State group, began two-and-a-half weeks ago. read more

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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

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#Iraq prepares for offensive against jihadi-held #Tikrit
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Armed American drones were flying over Baghdad as Iraqi forces readied a massive operation Saturday to take back Saddam Hussein’s hometown from jihadi militants. Thousands of soldiers were advancing on Tikrit, which was overrun by insurgents led by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) more than two weeks ago along with a swathe of northern and north-central Iraq. read more

Iraqi helicopters attack jihadi-held university in #Tikrit
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Smoke billows from an area controlled by the Islamic State of #Iraq and Syria (ISIS) between the Iraqi towns of Naojul and Tuz Khurmatu, both located north of the capital Baghdad, on June 26, 2014. (Photo: AFP - Karim Sahib) Smoke billows from an area controlled by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) between the Iraqi towns of Naojul and Tuz Khurmatu, both located north of the capital Baghdad, on June 26, 2014. (Photo: AFP - Karim Sahib)

Iraqi helicopters fired on a university campus in Tikrit on Friday to dislodge insurgents who overran the city in an onslaught that has given them control of large swathed of territory in the north and brought them close to Baghdad. Tikrit, the hometown of former dictator Saddam (...)

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Seven dead in #Iraq air strike
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An air strike on the insurgent-controlled Iraqi city of #Tikrit killed at least seven people on Sunday, as the authorities seek to stem a swift militant offensive. The air strike, reported by state television and witnesses, comes after a lightning advance earlier this month in which insurgents including the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) jihadist group overran a swathe of territory, including Tikrit. read more

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Iraqi choppers fire on #Tikrit #mosque
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Iraqi army helicopters fired rockets on one of the largest mosques in the city of Tikrit on Friday, local officials and witnesses said. It was unclear if there were any casualties in the strikes on Tikrit, the hometown of late dictator Saddam Hussein which was overrun by insurgents earlier this week. (Reuters)

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Iraqi air force bombs #Tikrit palace
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Iraqi forces launched at least four air strikes on jihadists occupying ousted dictator Saddam Hussein’s palace compound in the city of Tikrit on Thursday, witnesses said. It was not immediately clear whether the strikes against the militants, who took the city a day before, were launched by helicopters or planes. The sprawling compound in central Tikrit was one of several around the country where Saddam once received foreign guests and dignitaries. read more

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#ISIS seizes #Iraq's #Tikrit as US mulls drone intervention
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An Iraqi family fleeing violence in the northern Nineveh province arrives at a Kurdish checkpoint in Aski kalak, 40 kilometers West of Arbil, in the autonomous Kurdistan region, on June 11, 2014. (Photo: AFP - Safin Hamed)

Militants have seized the Iraqi city of Tikrit as a jihadi offensive sweeps closer to #Baghdad, prompting the UN Security Council to convene crisis talks Thursday while the US mulls air strikes on the rebels. The Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) seized the second city of Mosul on Tuesday and has since captured a large swathe of northern and north-central Iraq including Tikrit - the hometown of executed dictator Saddam Hussein. read (...)