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Photos from the Front Lines against ISIS in Tikrit

Wed Apr 8, 2015 17:51:31

Sunni tribes, Shia forces, and Iraqi Christians plus army and security forces had fought together for weeks against the terrorists who swept in from Syria last year, killing or stealing anything in their path.

The campaign to take back Tikrit wasn't easy. The radicals had stuffed human and animal bodies with explosives, and hidden IEDs, booby traps in and around the city, according to soldiers interviewed on the front lines. But the Iraqi soldiers and militias finally took the ISIS stronghold.

By Alex Wroblewski