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Iraq forces face rebel resistance in Tikrit
(MENAFN- Arab News) SAMARRA: Iraqi forces faced tough resistance from rebels around Tikrit Saturday but the top US military officer said ahead of a Baghdad visit that victory was only a matter of time.
Gen. Martin Dempsey insisted US air strikes north of Tikrit had been key.
'The Tikrit operation is only possible because of the air campaign we've been running around Baiji' a town further north he said.
The rebel group's footprint in Iraq has been shrinking steadily since federal and Kurdish troops went on the counter-offensive roughly six months ago with foreign military backing.
The US military announced that a string of 26 air strikes over two weeks had succeeded in forcing IS out of Al-Baghdadi a small town near a large Iraqi base in western Iraq where US advisers are stationed.
'Iraqi security forces and tribal fighters from the Anbar region have successfully cleared Al-Baghdadi of ISIL (IS) retaking both the police station and three Euphrates River bridges' it said.
Gen. Martin Dempsey insisted US air strikes north of Tikrit had been key.
'The Tikrit operation is only possible because of the air campaign we've been running around Baiji' a town further north he said.
The rebel group's footprint in Iraq has been shrinking steadily since federal and Kurdish troops went on the counter-offensive roughly six months ago with foreign military backing.
The US military announced that a string of 26 air strikes over two weeks had succeeded in forcing IS out of Al-Baghdadi a small town near a large Iraqi base in western Iraq where US advisers are stationed.
'Iraqi security forces and tribal fighters from the Anbar region have successfully cleared Al-Baghdadi of ISIL (IS) retaking both the police station and three Euphrates River bridges' it said.
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