The Iraqi Army and the Popular Mobilization forces are completing their preparations to start the third stage of the campaign which aims at expelling ISIL from Salahuddin province

The Iraqi Army and the Popular Mobilization forces are completing their preparations to start the third stage of the campaign which aims at expelling ISIL from Salahuddin province and providing the military's troops with positions of direct confrontations with the terrorist group in Tikrit.

Al-Manar correspondent reported that the Iraqi army units and the Popular Mobilization forces continued targeting ISIL's sites in the city in order to isolate their gatherings and to cut off their supply lines.

ISIL terrorists deliberately torched an oil field eastern Tikrit, the correspondent added.