Iraqi forces have reportedly taken control of theal-Qadisiyah neighborhood fromISIL Takfiri terrorists. The Takfiris are now besiegedin the center of the city.
According to reports, the streets of Tikrit have been covered with dead bodies of the ISIL terrorists. Some of the terrorists were killed by the Iraqi forces, while others were executed by their fellow Takfiris for fleeing the battle.
In a statement, the Tikrit tribesman have announced that they too are participating in the fightto push out the Takfiris from Tikrit.
Iraqi warplanes conducted several airstrikes on ISIL militants in Tikrit.
Peshmarga forces have attacked the ISIL terrorists in Riyad district near Hawija, located 240 kilometers (150 miles) north of the capital, Baghdad.
The terrorists have reportedly fled to the town of Shirqat north of Tikrit on the way to Mosul.
The Iraqi army has been launching massive operations in the past several days to retake Tikrit from the terrorists.
Last week, 30,000 Iraqi forces started a huge operation to recapture the embattled city of Tikrit in the northern province of Salahuddinfrom Takfiri elements.
According to reports, a number of villages and oilfields near Tikrit, which is the birthplace of Iraqi former dictator Saddam Hussein, have been retaken.
Located some 130 kilometers (80 miles) north of the capital, Baghdad, Tikrit was overrun by the ISIL terrorists in summer 2014 along with Iraqs second-largest city of Mosul and other areas in the Arab countrys Sunni heartland.
Tikrit has a strategic position as it sits on the road to Mosul.
The ISIL terrorists, many of whom were initially trained by the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in Jordan in 2012 to destabilize the Syrian government, now control parts of Iraq and neighboring Syria. They have been engaged in crimes against humanity in the areas under their control.
By Press TV
