Zamili: 80% Tikrit liberated, call for arming the tribesmen

Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) The head of the parliament’s security and defense committee , Hakim Al-Zamili, emphasized that Tikrit town has been liberated almost 80%, “asking for arming the tribesmen to hold the liberated districts.”

Zamili accompanied the Defense Minister, Khalid Al-Obaidi visited the Salah-il-Din command operation in Tikrit to meet its leaders and also the leaders of the volunteers of popular mobilization.

Zamili said “The security forces supported by the volunteers and the tribesmen liberated most of the districts in Salah-il-Din almost 80%,” noting that “Zamili referred that “his committee asked the Defense Ministry for arming the tribesmen to hold the liberated districts and those that will be liberated later.”

“The security forces and the volunteers will go to Baiji and other districts to clear them from the terrorists of ISIL,” he concluded. /End/