Iraqi Army Retreats From Saddam’s Hometown As Assault On ISIS Falters
Ahmed Rasheed and Alexander Dziadosz, Reuters, Michael B. Kelley
BusinessInsider.com
Jun. 29, 2014
Insurgents brought down an army helicopter over the northern city of Tikrit on Sunday as the military sent in tanks to try to dislodge them on second day of a major pushback against a Sunni militant takeover of large stretches of Iraq.
The army retreated to the south, BBC reports, striking a blow to the first major offensive to counter an Sunni insurgency led by extremist ISIS militants.
The clashes are ongoing. Iraqi forces are bolstered by Iranian-trained militias.
Meanwhile in Baghdad, threatened by the rebel advance, top Shi’ite, Sunni and Kurdish lawmakers scrambled to agree cabinet nominations before parliament meets on Tuesday to try to prevent the rebel advance threatening Iraq’s future as a unitary state.
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