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 ...

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 ...

Later, army and medical sources said five soldiers ... US forces found the former president hiding in southern Tikrit eight months after the US-led invasion in 2003. If the military operation ...

At least three children were killed Sunday and three women were injured in attacks on residential areas by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, known also as Daesh, in Anbar Province ...