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 ...

TIKRIT, Iraq (AP) – Iraqi forces battled Islamic State militants holed up in downtown Tikrit, going house to house Tuesday in search of snipers and booby traps, and the prime minister announced ...

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In Iraq's Tikrit, liberation from the Islamic State group comes at a heavy price, both in loss of life and in the sheer devastation the militants leave in their wake. Much of Tikrit, Saddam Hussein's ...

Displaced Iraqis who fled fighting between Islamic State (IS) militants and Iraqi Kurdish fighters in the Mosul and Anbar regions receive polio and tetanus vaccines from a health worker at a mosque ...

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 ...