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ISIS Ain’t Outta Tikrit Yet

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U.S. airstrikes and Iraqi troops may soon push the terror group out of Saddam Hussein’s hometown. But the cries of victory are, for the moment, premature.

Iraqi forces moved into parts of downtown Tikrit on Tuesday, which means the city’s recapture from the self-proclaimed Islamic State could be “imminent,” U.S. defense officials told the Daily Beast.

But those wins were short of Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al Abadi claims in Baghdad that the city had been “liberated.”...

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