Head of the Badr Organisation Hadi al-Amiri (L) addresses a news conference with Iraqi Interior Minister Mohammed Salem al-Ghabban (R) in Udhaim dam, north of Baghdad March 6, 2015. Iraqi government forces and Iran-backed militiamen entered a town on the southern outskirts of Saddam Hussein's home city Tikrit on Friday, pressing on with the biggest offensive yet against Islamic State militants that seized the north last year. REUTERS/Thaier Al-Sudani (IRAQ - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST CONFLICT MILITARY)