Tikrit assault was so far a big fail. Small, thin encircled town with lightly armed militia inside, over 700 killed and no results. Iranian generals know only two tactics: human wave and barrel bomb.
Are you kidding me. Get your facts straigh first, the operation was for the entire sallahidding province and is planned over a few weeks, and another few weeks existention to take areas in Kirkuk.
For far the PMF liberated 7000 square KM's, including 4 major towns and over 100 villages and settlements. They besieged IS in a very small area and have taken away their ability to launch offensives. That is certainly not a failure by any means.
Patience is key, the PMF have eniugh forces to storm and take over the city, but they don't want mass casualties.
Casualties are expected in every battle, the casualties didn't go for a stalemate. IS casualties are even high but go unreported. We are in a full scale war, everyday 40-80 iraq fighters die to defend this nation, but again we have been through wars before and that didn't break us. The Iran-Iraq war took over 500k casualties, and we give the casualties needed to win this war which is much more important battle which Iraqis see as a just cause.
The Sallahiddin operations are expected to have more than 1500 casualties, nothing come free. Falujah took a few weeks and more than 100 casualties until the Americans cleared it, and that was with extensive air support and the destruction of the city.
The Iraqi forces are still planning the Tikrit offensive, just because it was put in hold for a few days doesn't mean it will not happen.
Well, i think even if the Shia forces manages Sunnis into submission, things will be like before the ISIS appeared. Bombings in mosques, market places, claiming hundreds of lives in each month.
This time it's kind if different, these cities are undergoing a civilian filtration op. Before more if the terrorists were undercover, when IS came all the pro-is were exposed, now the PMF is entering these areas along with the anti-IS population to identify each and every person who was with IS, they know their names and where they live.