Iraqi offensive on Tikrit stalled for third day

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Islamic State fighters traded sniper fire and mortar rounds with Iraqi troops and allied Shi'ite militia forces on Sunday in the city of Tikrit but ** major advances were made by either side, a military official who returned from the front said. The nearly two-week-old operation to win back the city from the radical Islamist militants occupying large parts of the country's **rth and west been stalled since Friday, when security officials said Iraqi forces and their militia allies would wait for reinforcements before moving forward. "There were ** new pushes today from either side, only scattered skirmishes in the **rthern and southern parts of the city," Colonel Mohammed Abid al-Jubouri told Reuters by phone after visiting the southern edge of Tikrit on Sunday.

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