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At least 21 people are killed after two suicide bombers attack a wedding party near Tikrit.
2017-03-8

The Islamic State seizes the Yazidi-dominated town of Sinjar.
2014-08-3

Forty-six Indian nurses held hostage by the ISIS for almost a month in Tikrit, Iraq, arrive at Cochin airport, Kochi, India.
2014-07-5

The Iraqi Army expels militants from the centre of the city of Tikrit amongst heavy fighting.
2014-06-28

American human rights group Human Rights Watch claims that Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant executed at least 160 captives earlier this month in Tikrit.
2014-06-27

Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant capture the al-Walid (al-Tanf) border crossing with Syria and the Turaibil (Karameh) border crossing with Jordan.
2014-06-22

The Pentagon sends the USS "Mesa Verde" to the Persian Gulf to join a contingency of U.S. Navy ships already stationed there to monitor the northern offensive.
2014-06-16

2014 Mosul offensive: Insurgents continue their offensive, gaining control of the city of Tikrit, the second provincial capital to fall in as many days. At least 500,000 residents of Mosul flee the fighting and head east into Kurdish-controlled territory, while insurgents storm the Turkish Embassy and take 48 Turks hostage, including the Consul General.
2014-06-11

A terrorist attack on a news complex in Tikrit, Iraq kills 5 people.
2013-12-23

A suicide attacker blows up a tanker lorry at the police headquarters in the Iraqi city of Tikrit, killing at least nine people. Three people are killed in a separate shooting in Baghdad.
2013-04-1