Under Ba'athism, Tikrit was best remembered as the hometown of Saddam Hussein, and as a power base for his regime up until the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003. After the invasion, the city has been the site of conflict, culminating in the Second Battle of Tikrit from March through April 2015, which resulted in the displacement of 28,000 civilians. The Iraqi government regained control of the city from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant on March 31, 2015 and it is now at peace.