Iraq, with significant assistance from Iran and dangerous participation by Shia militias, has been on the offensive in Tikrit all week and is close to taking the city back from ISIS. Now:
More than 40 Iraqi soldiers were killed when ISIS blew up the Iraqi army headquarters near Ramadi in Iraq’s western Anbar province, an Anbar provincial leader told CNN as the battle continues for control of key cities in Iraq.
Tikrit, is the:
… birthplace of former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein
And, thus, a heavily symbolic objective. The bigger prize will be Mosul, a city ten times larger.
