TIKRIT, Iraq -- Iraqi troops clashed along two fronts with Islamic State militants Thursday in Tikrit as rockets and mortars echoed across Saddam Hussein's hometown a day after soldiers and allied ...

TIKRIT, Iraq (AP) — The government declared victory in Tikrit on Wednesday over extremists of the Islamic State group, and it warned the militants holding other Iraqi provinces that they would be the ...

A rocket hit a small oil refinery in northern Iraq on Sunday, causing a fire at a fuel storage tank and forcing a complete shutdown of operations after the blaze spread to a nearby pipeline network, ...

TIKRIT, Iraq (AP) — Abdel Mowgood Hassan climbs over toppled bricks and a torn-away front door to enter his uncle’s house in Tikrit, the first of his relatives to make a cautious return home since ...

Iraq has shut down operations at a small refinery in the north after two rockets hit a fuel storage tank and caused a fire earlier on Sunday, two refinery officials said.

TIKRIT, Iraq (AP) — Iraqi troops started the final phase of an offensive to recapture Saddam Hussein’s hometown of Tikrit on Thursday, a military official said, just hours after the United States ...

BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) Looting broke out in Tikrit hours after ISIS forces were driven out, a senior Iraqi security official in the city told CNN.The official said he witnessed at least 20 houses set on ...

WASHINGTON -- At Iraq's request, the U.S. began airstrikes in Tikrit on Wednesday in support of a stalled Iraqi ground offensive to retake the city from Islamic State fighters. The bombing marked a ...

Iraqi government forces say they have retaken some districts around Tikrit in their fight to recapture the city from Islamic State (IS). A force of about 30,000 troops and militia are said to be ...

TIKRIT, Iraq (AP) — Iraq declared a "magnificent victory" Wednesday over the Islamic State group in Tikrit, a key step in driving the militants out of their biggest strongholds. Iraqi Defense Minister ...