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guerilla-like stratagems such as sending out coordinated teams of suicide-bombers to Baghdad, the capital and political nerve centre of the Iraqi government, in order to bring some pressure to bear on the allies. The strategic logic of these operations was explicated by an Iraq expert & security analyst Sajad Jiyad; "It's keeping the ISF on their toes. It's to let them know that they can strike anywhere, to force them to spread their forces thin. By letting off such a large series of explosions, it's sending a message that they are going to have to put their forces everywhere. It shows that ISIS can carry out these attacks at will and the ISF cannot relax its guard."
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establish a state with a de facto capital in Raqqah. This enabled it to launch a formidable assault on what would prove to be an irresolute and demoralised Iraqi army from a secure base across the Syrian-Iraqi border. The result was a devastating collapse in the military infrastructure of the Iraqi government with entire divisions throwing down their weapons and fleeing ISIS without a fight as happened in the
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that Tikrit was free of ISIL forces, although continued resistance would persist until 17 April, when the last 130 ISIL sleeper agents in the city were killed. Cleanup and defusing operations in the city continued, but Iraqi officials predicted that it would take at least several months to remove the estimated 5,000–10,000 IEDs left behind by ISIL in Tikrit.
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enemy in order to minimise casualties as well as to guard against unnecessary civilian deaths as Isis fighters are said to be holding "an unspecified number of civilians as human shields" in Tikrit and other cities. An indication of the intensity and volume to which these tactics are being utilised by ISIS is given by the report mentioning over 382
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According to numerous sources the city of Al-Dour has already fallen and operation have commenced against Al-Alam in the north. ISIS has sent reinforcements to Tikrit from other parts of its self-proclaimed caliphate further north, where it came under attack on Monday from Kurdish forces around the oil-rich-city of Kirkuk.
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On 4 April, Iraqi forces had recaptured most of Tikrit city; however, on 5 April, it was reported that 500 ISIL fighters were still holed up in the northern Qadisiya District, with resistance from the remaining ISIL fighters persisting for another week. On 12 April 2015, the Iraqi Government declared
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At least 50 ISIS fighters have turned themselves into the allied forces' hands in the town of Al-Dour on 8 March. On the following day, 9 March, the town of al-Alam was captured by the allied forces and completely secured, in effect completing the encirclement of ISIS in Tikrit. On March 11, ISIL was
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when large swathes of the north of the country were captured by the militant group with the Iraqi national army quickly disintegrating in the path of its advance. In light of the sweeping gains of the militants, Nouri Al-Maliki, the Prime Minister of Iraq at that time, attempted to declare a state of
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On 31 March, the Iraqi security forces advanced into the city center, seizing the Salaheddin provincial government headquarters and the Tikrit hospital, as they moved towards the presidential complex. By On 2 April, the allied forces had secured nearly all of central Tikrit. where a few hundred ISIL
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On 25 March, the allied forces were supposed to resume their offensive, as the American-led coalition launched its first airstrikes on ISIL targets in Tikrit. That night, US aircraft carried out 17 airstrikes in the center of Tikrit, which struck an ISIL building, two bridges, three checkpoints, two
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where the combined forces of the allies (with extensive military & intelligence support from Iran) are attempting to encircle the Jihadists in Tikrit by capturing Al-Dour and Al-Alam in the south and the north respectively, in order to cut them off and begin a siege against ISIS-occupied Tikrit.
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After months of preparatory maneuvers and intelligence gathering, a force of over 23,000 allied fighters including the Iraqi armed forces, Shi'ite private militias and Sunni tribal militias began an offensive in early March to encircle ISIL and entrap their fighters in Tikrit and its environs in the
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The continuing success of the allied forces (which are composed of mostly Shi'ite paramilitary groups, though they also contain a significant Sunni contingent), particularly in Sunni areas such as Tikrit, where ISIS has been losing a series of conventional battles, has prompted them to utilise more
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The advance against ISIS however has been quite slow due to the extensive use of asymmetric tactics such as planting IEDs along routes of advance, the use of suicide bombers, tactically placed snipers etc. all of which has prompted the Iraqi officers to progress with particular caution against the
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that the instability created in a neighbouring country provided the fertile ground for the group formerly known as Al-Qaeda in Iraq to blossom into a formidable and distinct rebel-faction strong enough to eventually turn on the lesser rebel groups and easily expel them from eastern Syria and soon
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itself but could not wrest control of it due to the resistance it encountered by the Iraqi security forces in conjunction with the Shi'ite paramilitaries. Both the United States and Iran intervened in order to stem the tide against ISIS and were relatively successful in the breaking of the
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Despite recapturing both Baiji (only temporarily) and Amirli from ISIS, the Iraqi government was still struggling to drive out the militants who seized large swathes of the country in the face of the crumbling Iraqi Army. The most recent concerted effort is the
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Despite ISIS' efforts to forestall the rapid advance of the allies on the east of the Tigris river by blowing up the bridge leading to the city over the Tigris, the allies managed to mount an aggressive push across the river and establish a
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nature of their own. After the departure of the U.S. from Iraq the insurgency gained some long-lost momentum and the casualty statistics started to increase once again. However, it was not until the advent of the
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in which both parties played a significant role (however they did not and still do not officially cooperate or coordinate their respective efforts with one another). Although in the
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by 11 of March. An Iraqi major general has been quoted as saying "We don't want to be rushed because we want to avoid casualties. Tikrit is sealed off from all sides."
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ISIS consolidated their control over the city and strongly repulsed any attempts at its recapture by Iraqi security forces and militia contingents.
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In the aftermath of the U.S. invasion of Iraq back in 2003 the insurgency in the Sunni areas of the country took on a distinct
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The eastern, central, and southern parts of the Salahuddin Province are captured by Iraqi Security Forces, by late October 2016
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Military operations of the War in Iraq (2013–2017) involving the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
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Matt Bradley and Ghassan Adnan in Baghdad, and Felicia Schwartz in Washington (10 November 2014).
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Major Iraqi victory: Iraqi Government forces retakes nearly all ISIL-held parts of the province.
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Military operations of the War in Iraq (2013–2017) involving the United States
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Military operations of the War in Iraq (2013–2017) involving Quds Force
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Military operations of the War in Iraq (2013–2017) involving Hezbollah
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How Tikrit has Changed the War - Counteroffensive in Tikrit March 2015
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emergency though the Iraqi Parliament blocked his efforts to do so.
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Military operations of the War in Iraq (2013–2017) involving Canada
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driven from Tikrit hospital complex in the south of the city.
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Kareem Khadder and Laura Smith-Spark, CNN (11 March 2015).
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Index

Saladin
Iraqi Civil War (2014–2017)
Military intervention against ISIL

Salahuddin Province
Iraq
Baghdad
Salahuddin Province
First Battle of Baiji
Siege of Amirli
First Battle of Tikrit
Second Battle of Baiji
Third Battle of Baiji
Dhuluiya offensive
Second Battle of Tikrit
Battle for Shirqat
Iraq
Iraq
Kurdistan Region
Iranian-led intervention
Iran
Iran
Hezbollah
Asa'ib Ahl al-Haq
Badr Organization
Kata'ib Hezbollah
Muqawimun
U.S.-led intervention
United States
United Kingdom

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