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Iraqi security forces and militias fought their way into Tikrit Wednesday, advancing on two fronts in their biggest counter-offensive so far against ISIS militants, Reuters reported.

In a possible response to the fighting north of Baghdad, militants in the ISIS stronghold of Anbar west of the capital launched 13 suicide car bomb attacks on army and security positions in the provincial capital of Ramadi.

Army and militia fighters captured part of Tikrit’s northern Qadisiyah district, the provincial governor said, while in the south of the city a security officer said another force made a rapid push toward the center.

“The forces entered Tikrit general hospital,” an official at the main military operation command center said. “There is heavy fighting going on near the presidential palaces, next to the hospital complex.