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Iraqis from Ramadi gathered at the Bzebiz bridge after fleeing Ramadi and spending the night walking toward Baghdad on Saturday. Islamic State militants seized the center of their city in western Iraq, but U.S. officials say the takeover is only temporary. (Associated Press)

Islamic State seizes Ramadi, Iraq, counters U.S. claim terrorist group on defensive

By Jacqueline Klimas - The Washington Times

Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi arrived last week to distribute weapons and support security forces and Sunni volunteers at a camp in Habaniyah, west of Baghdad. After victory against Islamic State militants in the city of Tikrit, Iraq set sights on western Anbar province for its second major counteroffensive against the Islamic State. (Associated Press)

Iraq may follow U.S. Marines’ blueprint to defeat Islamic State in Anbar

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

In this Tuesday, April 7, 2015 photo, Iraqi forensics experts collect human remains from a mass grave, believed to contain the bodies of Iraqi soldiers killed by Islamic State group militants when they overran Camp Speicher military base last June, in Tikrit, Iraq. Forensic teams in the newly recaptured city of Tikrit have started exhuming bodies from mass graves believed to contain some of the hundreds of soldiers killed by Islamic State militants last year, a government spokesman said Tuesday. (AP Photo)

FRANK GAFFNEY: Mass graves found in Tikrit

By Sean MacCormac

Iraqi security forces deploy in Tikrit, 80 miles (130 kilometers) north of Baghdad, Iraq, a day after Iraqi security forces backed by Shiite militiamen took control of the city from Islamic State militants in this Thursday, April 2, 2015, file photo. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed, File)

Iraqi teams start exhuming mass grave of soldiers in Tikrit

By Sinan Salaheddin - Associated Press

Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi tours the city of Tikrit after it was retaken by the security forces in Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, April 1, 2015. Iraq declared a "magnificent victory" over the Islamic State group in Tikrit, a key step in driving the militants out of their biggest strongholds. (AP Photo)

Iraq declares victory over Islamic State group in Tikrit

By Qassim Abdul-Zahra and Sameer N. Yacoub - Associated Press

A halt in U.S. airstrikes against Islamic State positions in Tikrit is slowing a potential retaking of the larger city of Mosul from the terrorist army. (Associated Press)

Tikrit assault stalls as Obama withholds U.S. airstrikes to avoid Iran ties, analysts say

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

Iraqi forces clashed with Islamic State militants in the Qadisiyah neighborhood of Tikrit on Thursday. Iraq's defense minister said the operation to retake Tikrit is "essential to opening a corridor" for Baghdad-aligned forces to move north toward Mosul. (Associated Press)

Tikrit offensive vital in reversing Islamic State gains in Iraq and Syria, analysts say

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

In this still image taken from video, soldiers fire toward a target in Tikrit, Iraq on Wednesday, March 11, 2015. (AP Photo)

Iraqi troops clash with Islamic State group in Iraq’s Tikrit

By Qassim Abdul-Zahra - Associated Press

In this still image taken from video a soldier fires from behind a building in Tikrit, Iraq on Wednesday, March 11, 2015. Iraqi soldiers and Shiite militiamen entered the Islamic State-held city of Tikrit on Wednesday, authorities said, breaching one of the biggest strongholds of the extremists in a key test for Iraqi forces. (AP Photo)

Iraqi soldiers, militiamen enter Islamic State-held Tikrit

By Sameer N. Yacoub - Associated Press

Iraqi Hezbollah fighters carry the coffin of their comrade, Ali Mansour, who his family says was killed in Tikrit fighting Islamic militants, during his funeral procession, in the Shiite holy city of Najaf, 100 miles (160 kilometers) south of Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, March 2, 2015. (AP Photo/Jaber al-Helo)

Iraq launches operation to retake Tikrit from Islamic State

By Sinan Salaheddin - Associated Press

Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki offered amnesty to those who renounce Islamic extremists. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban, File)

Iraq’s Nouri al-Maliki signals his intent to stay in job

By Ryan Lucas and Qassim Abdul-Zahra - Associated Press

Iraqi security forces celebrate after clashes with followers of Shiite cleric Mahmoud al-Sarkhi, in front of his home in the Shiite holy city of Karbala, 50 miles (80 kilometers) south of Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, July 2, 2014. (AP Photo/Ahmed al-Husseini)

Indian nurses who were kidnapped cross into Iraqi Kurdish region

By Qassim Abdul-Zahra and Muneeza Naqvi - Associated Press

This photo taken on Tuesday, July 1, 2014, shows damaged homes due to clashes between fighters of the al-Qaida-inspired Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and Iraqi security forces in Tikrit, 80 miles (130 kilometers) north of Baghdad, Iraq. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant announced this week that it has unilaterally established a caliphate in the areas under its control. It declared the group's leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the head of its new self-styled state governed by Shariah law and demanded that all Muslims pledge allegiance to him. (AP Photo)

ISIL kidnaps 46 Indian nurses from Iraqi hospital

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

This undated file image posted on a militant website on Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2014, which has been verified and is consistent with other AP reporting, shows fighters from the al Qaeda-linked Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) marching in Raqqa, Syria. (AP Photo/Militant Website, File)

Iraq sends in helicopter gunships, launches operation to take back Tikrit from ISIL

By Qassim Abdul-Zahra and Sameer N. Yacoub - Associated Press

Militants from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) leading away captured Iraqi soldiers in Tikrit, Iraq in June. (AP Photo via militant website, File)

Iraq’s top cleric calls for deal on PM by Tuesday

By Qassim Abdul-Zahra and Sameer N. Yacoub - Associated Press

SALHANI: Countering Muslim extremists in Iraq

By Claude Salhani

This image posted on a militant website on Saturday, June 14, 2014, which has been verified and is consistent with other AP reporting, appears to show militants from the al-Qaida-inspired Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) with truckloads of captured Iraqi soldiers after taking over a base in Tikrit, Iraq. (AP Photo via militant website)

Obama ignored general’s pleas to keep American forces in Iraq

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times