Iraq has launched a military operation to recapture Tikrit, the hometown of former leader Saddam Hussein ... as funnelling money and weapons to them. Image source, AP Image caption, Gen Soleimani ...

US forces have been "actively engaging" Iraqi troops in Tikrit -- Saddam Hussein's home town and likely the last stronghold of his resistance, said Lieutenant Mark Kitchens, a spokesman at US ...

It was as if Saddam believed that through this inglorious death he would become, permanently, the martyr in whose image he had always ... “The hell that is Iraq?” The shouting increased ...

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At this moment the regime of Saddam Hussein is being removed from power and a long era of fear and cruelty is ending. The government of Iraq and the ... We found out that Tikrit had fallen to ...

Fighters from the Iran-linked militia Saraya al-Salam withdraw from a protest near Iraq’s parliament building. Ameer Al-Mohammedawi/picture alliance/Getty Images On the two-decade anniversary of ...