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TIKRIT Gonzalo Jara Chile Jersey , Iraq, March 16 (Xinhua) -- A top Iraqi army officer said on Monday that Iraqi troops need U.S.-led coalition air support to recapture the city of Tikrit, after two weeks of a major offensive stalled against Islamic State (IS) militants.
"The Iraqi security forces need coalition assistance to complete the liberation of Tikrit as the IS militant group planted thousands of bombs to defend their last redoubt in Tikrit," said Lt. Gen. Abdul-Wahab al-Saadi, head of the Operations Command of Salahudin province.
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"The U.S.-led coalition have advanced equipment to locate the targets accurately and have advanced technology and sophisticated weapons that can reduce by far the time and casualties of clearing the city," he said.
The campaign to recapture Tikrit has been stalled due to the presence of IS booby traps and the Iraqi security forces' intention to limit casualties.
"The reason behind the stall of the operations to free Tikrit is that the leaders do not want their units to sustain heavy casualties, and they prefer to prolong the siege of the city to force the IS militants either to surrender of be killed," a federal police colonel said.
"Hundreds of improvised explosive devices had been planted at the entrances to the city and the main streets Francisco Silva Chile Jersey , important buildings," the officer told Xinhua on condition of anonymity. "Even residential houses were booby-trapped."
Some 30,000 Iraqi troops and thousands of allied Shiite and Sunni militias have been involved in the two-week operation to recapture Tikrit and other key towns and villages in the northern part of Salahudin province from IS militants.
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Much of Salahudin province has been under IS control since June 2014, after bloody clashes broke out between Iraqi security forces and the group.
WASHINGTON， Sept. 20 (Xinhua) -- Last month was the hottest August on record， continuing a trend of breaking global heat records for the 16th consecutive month， the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said Tuesday.
"Put away your party hats: August marks a not-so-sweet 16 months of record warmth for the globe， the longest such streak in 137 years，" the NOAA said in a statement.
The combined average temperature over global land and ocean surfaces for August was 0.92 degrees Celsius above the 20th century average of 15.6 degrees Celsius， surpassing the previous record set in 2015 by 0.05 degrees Celsius， according to the NOAA's monthly report.
Record warmth were observed across the northeastern U.S.， northern South America， central and southern Africa， and across parts of western Russia， southern India， China， Southeastern Asia and Indonesia.
Overall， five of the six continents had at least a top 10 warm August， with Africa and Asia observing a record high average temperature for August since continental records began in 1910.
Record warmth was also present across the northwestern Atlantic Ocean， the central southern Atlantic Ocean， and across parts of western Indian Ocean and the western and southeastern Pacific Ocean.
On the whole， the August globally-averaged sea surface temperature was the second highest on record， just behind 2015 by 0.02 degrees Celsius.
For the year to date， the average global temperature was 1.01 degrees Celsius above average， also breaking the heat record set in 2015 by 0.16 degrees Celsius.
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