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Al-Awja (Arabic: العوجة) is a village 8 miles (13 km) south of Tikrit, Iraq on the western bank of the Tigris. It is mainly inhabited by Sunni Arabs. The village is known for being the hometown and place of burial of former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein.
Mar 16, 2015 · Footage filmed by the AP news agency shows that all that remains standing of the once-lavish mausoleum in the village of al-Awja are some pillars. Iraqi forces and Iranian-backed Shia militia...
Sep 16, 2010 · Al-Awja is the village where the family of President Saddam Hussein – who ruled Iraq for more than thirty years, before being executed following the US occupation of Iraq – continues to live until this day.
Apr 16, 2018 · In his native village of Al-Awjah, the mausoleum of Iraq's executed dictator Saddam Hussein has been reduced to broken concrete and tangled barbed wire, showing no trace of his remains.
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Aug 2, 2007 · Awja, 160 kilometers north of Baghdad, is in the middle of a fiercely contested war zone, where American troops passing on Iraq's main north-south highway, flanking the village, are regularly...
The First Battle of Tikrit was fought for the Iraqi city of Tikrit following the city's capture by the Islamic State and Ba'athist Loyalists during the 2014 Northern Iraq offensive. The battle took place between 26 and 30 June 2014.
Dec 30, 2006 · Sep 22 1980: Iraq invades Iran, with which it has had a long-term border dispute. He cracks down on the Shia Islamist al-Dawa party, which has ties to Iran’s revolutionary regime.
