article_snippet: Tikrit Military Hospital is a few blocks south of the presidential palace.
article_snippet: The Sunni extremist group blew up a key bridge near Tikrit, preventing the joint Iraqi forces from using The Sunni extremist group to cross the Tigris River to approach the city from the east.
article_snippet: Some 17 explosives-laden vehicles have been detonated at various security checkpoints and in the city center, Faleh al-Issawi, the deputy head of the Anbar Provincial Council said.
article_snippet: One vehicle targeted a bridge that provides access to the city of Ramadi, west of Baghdad from the north.
article_snippet: There were none in the Tikrit or Ramadi areas.