Tikrit, Iraq

Iraq

Tikrit, Iraq connects to 2896 places across 13 topics through 111 Bunkabop connections, with military affairs dominating the graph. The city's Tikriti Al-Bu Nasir tribe supplied senior members of the Iraqi Republican Guard and Saddam Hussein's government. Tikrit later became a focal point of the 2003 Iraq War, during which Operation Red Dawn led to Hussein's capture. The city also carries threads of Ottoman governance, early Christian displacement, and, in 2015, a recapture from the Islamic State by Iraqi and Shia militia forces.