Gun and suicide bomb attacks kill 12 in Iraq’s Tikrit
Militants killed 12 people in a shooting and a suicide bombing opn Saturday in the northern Iraqi city of Tikrit, which was recaptured from ISIL last year. It was not clear last night whether the renewed violence in Tikrit would delay plans by Iraqi forces to recapture Mosul. Western officials have indicated that the drive […]Militants killed 12 people in a shooting and a suicide bombing opn Saturday in the northern Iraqi city of Tikrit, which was recaptured from ISIL last year.
It was not clear last night whether the renewed violence in Tikrit would delay plans by Iraqi forces to recapture Mosul. Western officials have indicated that the drive for Iraq’s second city will begin next month, although Baghdad has declined to give a specific date for the operation.
In Saturday’s attack, militants shot dead four security personnel at a checkpoint on the west side of the city, then continued north and detonated an explosives-rigged vehicle at another checkpoint, killing eight more people.
