Military operations continue in various parts of Iraq, with Tikrit, a Baath Party stronghold and the birthplace of Saddam Hussein, the only major city not under coalition control. Retired U.S. Air ...

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Since last October, Army Spc. Adam Boentgen has been stationed near Tikrit, Iraq. As part of his deployment with the 101st Airborne Division, Boentgen does paralegal work for the Army. That job ...

Iraq’s Kirkuk cement factory ... which purposefully focused investment in and around Baghdad and his home area of Tikrit. The factory’s management has implemented some upgrades, including ...

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 ...

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(JTA) — Near the start of the Iraq War in 2003, David Goldstrom found himself leading a Yom Kippur service for about 50 soldiers in one of Saddam Hussein’s former palaces in Tikrit, Iraq.

March 19, 2003 – The second Gulf War begins, code named Operation Iraqi Freedom. December 13 2003 – Hussein is captured in a cellar, or ‘spider hole’ at a farmhouse in Tikrit between 8:00 ...

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