TIKRIT, Iraq (Reuters) - On April 1, the city of Tikrit was liberated from the extremist group Islamic State. The Shi'ite-led central government and allied militias, after a month-long battle, had ...

BAGHDAD - Al Qaeda-inspired militants seized effective control Wednesday of Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit, expanding their offensive closer to the Iraqi capital as soldiers and security forces ...

Republican Guard and other Iraqi troops regrouping in Saddam Hussein's hometown, Tikrit, have been battered by U.S. airstrikes and don't present an effective fighting force, U.S. Central Command said ...

TIKRIT, Iraq (Reuters) - On April 1, the city of Tikrit was liberated from the extremist group Islamic State. The Shi'ite-led central government and allied militias, after a month-long battle, had ...

Robert Siegel talks with Lt. Col. Mark Edmonds, Army Deputy Brigade Commander of the 3rd Brigade, 82nd Airborne, about ongoing operations in the Iraqi city of Tikrit. Edmonds says that despite the ...

Iraqi forces appeared Wednesday to be making progress on the third day of a major offensive intended to push ISIS fighters out of the city of Tikrit. The Iraqi soldiers are reportedly approaching the ...

OUJA, Iraq — The tomb of Iraq's late dictator Saddam Hussein was virtually leveled in heavy clashes between militants from ISIS and Iraqi forces in a fight for control of the city of Tikrit. Fighting ...

AD DAWR, Iraq — All was quiet in this village by the Tigris on Sunday, a day after U.S. troops swept in to capture Saddam Hussein in his crude hide-out near a barn for sheep. But there was a sense of ...

After a month of fighting in the Iraqi city of Tikrit, the Iraqi Prime Minister said Tuesday that Iraqi forces took a step toward pushing out the self-declared Islamic State. We turn now to Iraq.

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 ...