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Tikrit (Arabic: تِكْرِيت, romanized:Tikrīt [ˈtɪkriːt]) is a city in Iraq, located 140 kilometers (87 mi) northwest of Baghdad and 220 kilometers (140 mi) southeast of Mosul on the Tigris River. It is the administrative center of the Saladin Governorate. As of 2012, it had a population of approximately 160,000.
Mar 13, 2015 · 13 March 2015. Getty Images. The main gate of former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's palace in Tikrit, shown in March 2003. By Mina Al-Lami. BBC Monitoring. The Iraqi city of Tikrit - currently ...
Apr 1, 2015 · Debris on a road in Tikrit, April 1, 2015. On June 11, 2014, Mahmoud, a sixty-year-old employee at a school in Tikrit, Iraq, drove home for his afternoon nap. Thirty minutes later, he received a frantic call from a friend in Baghdad who demanded to know if TV reports that ISIS had taken over the city were accurate.
Mar 9, 2015 · Tikrit, the city on the Tigris ninety miles north of Baghdad, has long served as a symbol of Iraq’s ancient past. More recently, Saddam Hussein was born in one of its suburbs, and he was buried ...
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Apr 3, 2015 · TIKRIT, IRAQ – 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 ...
Jun 23, 2015 · Tikrit’s capture marked Iraq’s biggest victory yet against the Islamic State group, which holds about a third of Iraq and neighboring Syria in its self-declared caliphate. The military later handed control of the city to a provincial police force, in a model it hopes to emulate in liberated areas across the country.
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Tikrit (also Takrit) is located in north-central Iraq, some 100 miles north-northwest of Baghdad. The fortress around which the city was built was constructed by a Sassanid Persian king as a border post against the Byzantines. The first dwellers of the city belonged to the Banu Iyad tribe of Christian Arabs, and its name is believed to have ...
