• Key areas of Tikrit reclaimed by Iraqi sec. forces, militas
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[QUOTE](CNN) - Iraqi forces say they've captured key areas in their offensive to take back Tikrit, which has been under ISIS control since June. The security forces, backed by Shia militias, raised the Iraqi flag over the governorate and the main hospital buildings in the city Monday night, a security official with the forces in Tikrit told CNN. The gains, according to the official, came after a slow advance into the city as the [B]forces dealt with more than 300 improvised explosive devices planted in the city's streets[/B][/QUOTE] [url]http://edition.cnn.com/2015/03/30/middleeast/iraq-isis-tikrit/[/url]
If Tikrit is any example of what's to come, Mosul is going to be the bloodiest meatgrinder this conflict has seen yet. God help those Iraqis in the city.
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[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;47427857]If Tikrit is any example of what's to come, Mosul is going to be the bloodiest meatgrinder this conflict has seen yet. God help those Iraqis in the city.[/QUOTE] Let's hope they have enough will left to remove ISIS from the region once and for all because, truth to be told, after Mosul they won't have any major cities left in their control.
[QUOTE=Viper123_SWE;47436553]Let's hope they have enough will left to remove ISIS from the region once and for all because, truth to be told, after Mosul they won't have any major cities left in their control.[/QUOTE] Depends on their ever evolving relations with al Nursa. If they truly do unify, then that'll give them a good chunk of northern Syria.
[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;47439217]Depends on their ever evolving relations with al Nursa. If they truly do unify, then that'll give them a good chunk of northern Syria.[/QUOTE] They won't. Bridges have been burned there will never be an official merger on that level.
[QUOTE=Aman;47440100]They won't. Bridges have been burned there will never be an official merger on that level.[/QUOTE] Last month they talked about formal merger. At least al Nursa has forsaken their al Qaeda father, I believe.
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