Fighting in Tikrit Enter Second week, US bombers hit oil refinery ISIS, 30 Killed

Fighting in Tikrit Enter Second week, US bombers hit oil refinery ISIS, 30 Killed

Iraqi forces clash with Shiite militias aided ISIS militants entered its second week on the outskirts of the city of Tikrit, northern Iraq.

After the campaign launched surface-to Tikrit, Iraqi forces and Shiite militia allies continued to clash with militants on the outskirts of the city ISIS.

The coalition fighting for the town of Al Dour and Albu Ajil where some sniper ISIS complicate efforts to expel extremists.

Thousands of troops launched an offensive in the largest anti-ISIS Iraq last Sunday (1/3) for the recapture of Tikrit, a strategic stronghold located between the capital city of Baghdad in the south - which is controlled by the government - and Mosul in the north - which is controlled by ISIS.

Iraqi troops with tactical support of Iran launched the operation without the intervention of the US-led coalition, which on Sunday (8/3) continued to bomb targets in Iraq and Syria ISIS.

US Coalition air attacks focus on Kobani and Fallujah

Pentagon spokesman Colonel Steve Warren said Monday that the United States and its partners have done almost 2,800 air strikes since the beginning of the attack last August.

While Iraqi forces advanced little by little in the battle to retake Tikrit from the group Islamic State (ISIS), a US-led coalition air strike against militants continue in Syria and Iraq, Monday (9/3) with 13 air strikes, mostly centered near Kobani and Fallujah.

Pentagon spokesman Colonel Steve Warren said Monday that the United States and its partners have done almost 2,800 air strikes since the beginning of the attack last August.

With the Kurdish Peshmerga forces that accompanies trying to repulse militants in Iraq ISIS northeast, journalists VOA Kurdish language broadcasts, Dishad Anwar, witnessing signs of heavy air strikes in the area of ​​Kirkuk, the US defense official said the coalition was attacked twice on the last day.

However, America did not join the attack had been a week by Iraqi forces and Shiite militias as they advanced to Tikrit, the base between Baghdad and the government-controlled south of Mosul in the north controlled by ISIS.

On the second front battle against the ISIS group, officials said Monday that a German woman was killed in Syria when he fought with members of the Kurdish militia.

In another incident in Syria, activists said the air strikes on the US-led coalition of the oil refinery Sunday, killing 30 people.

US Air Attack Smash Oil Refinery ISIS, 30 Killed

Attacks on ISIS-operated refinery that killed 30 people, including militants and workers.

Syrian activists say led coalition air strike the United States regarding an oil refinery in northern Syria, Sunday (8/3), killing 30 people.

Syrian Observatory for Human Rights based in the UK, the use of network resources across Syria to track the violence there, said the group Islamic State (ISIS) operates the refinery, and the dead include militants and workers.

Coalition warplanes supporting the Iraqi army in its offensive to retake the region from ISIS forces, has conducted more than 2,300 air attacks on Iraq and Syria since August, according to data from the US Defense Department.

These attacks include the recent attack to respond to the request of the Iraqi government will help to protect the archaeological sites of the country, which have been subjected to destruction by militants in recent weeks.

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said in a statement Sunday he was very upset by the destruction of cultural sites, including the UNESCO World Heritage site in Hatra, northern Iraq. Fighting in Tikrit Enter Second week, US bombers hit oil refinery ISIS, 30 Killed

Iraqi forces clash with Shiite militias aided ISIS militants entered its second week on the outskirts of the city of Tikrit, northern Iraq.

After the campaign launched surface-to Tikrit, Iraqi forces and Shiite militia allies continued to clash with militants on the outskirts of the city ISIS.

The coalition fighting for the town of Al Dour and Albu Ajil where some sniper ISIS complicate efforts to expel extremists.

Thousands of troops launched an offensive in the largest anti-ISIS Iraq last Sunday (1/3) for the recapture of Tikrit, a strategic stronghold located between the capital city of Baghdad in the south - which is controlled by the government - and Mosul in the north - which is controlled by ISIS.

Iraqi troops with tactical support of Iran launched the operation without the intervention of the US-led coalition, which on Sunday (8/3) continued to bomb targets in Iraq and Syria ISIS.

US Coalition air attacks focus on Kobani and Fallujah

Pentagon spokesman Colonel Steve Warren said Monday that the United States and its partners have done almost 2,800 air strikes since the beginning of the attack last August.

While Iraqi forces advanced little by little in the battle to retake Tikrit from the group Islamic State (ISIS), a US-led coalition air strike against militants continue in Syria and Iraq, Monday (9/3) with 13 air strikes, mostly centered near Kobani and Fallujah.

Pentagon spokesman Colonel Steve Warren said Monday that the United States and its partners have done almost 2,800 air strikes since the beginning of the attack last August.

With the Kurdish Peshmerga forces that accompanies trying to repulse militants in Iraq ISIS northeast, journalists VOA Kurdish language broadcasts, Dishad Anwar, witnessing signs of heavy air strikes in the area of ​​Kirkuk, the US defense official said the coalition was attacked twice on the last day.

However, America did not join the attack had been a week by Iraqi forces and Shiite militias as they advanced to Tikrit, the base between Baghdad and the government-controlled south of Mosul in the north controlled by ISIS.

On the second front battle against the ISIS group, officials said Monday that a German woman was killed in Syria when he fought with members of the Kurdish militia.

In another incident in Syria, activists said the air strikes on the US-led coalition of the oil refinery Sunday, killing 30 people.

US Air Attack Smash Oil Refinery ISIS, 30 Killed

Attacks on ISIS-operated refinery that killed 30 people, including militants and workers.

Syrian activists say led coalition air strike the United States regarding an oil refinery in northern Syria, Sunday (8/3), killing 30 people.

Syrian Observatory for Human Rights based in the UK, the use of network resources across Syria to track the violence there, said the group Islamic State (ISIS) operates the refinery, and the dead include militants and workers.

Coalition warplanes supporting the Iraqi army in its offensive to retake the region from ISIS forces, has conducted more than 2,300 air attacks on Iraq and Syria since August, according to data from the US Defense Department.

These attacks include the recent attack to respond to the request of the Iraqi government will help to protect the archaeological sites of the country, which have been subjected to destruction by militants in recent weeks.

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said in a statement Sunday he was very upset by the destruction of cultural sites, including the UNESCO World Heritage site in Hatra, northern Iraq.VOA