An Update On ISIS Activities

August 14, 2015

August 14, 2015

 

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REPORTS FROM IRAQ

 

ANBAR

Falluja

Iraq War Media Cell (IWMC) says Iraqi forces shelled a Daesh hideout in Hay Nazzal in Falluja with rockets, killing 6 terrorists. [Al-Maalomah]

Baghdad Operations Command says Iraqi forces killed 2 terrorists and injured 2 others and defused 24 IEDs in Qarma. [Al-Baghdadia]

The leader of Sahwa in Qarma says Iraqi forces raided a Daesh hideout in Al-Rashad in Qarma center, killing 4 terrorists. [Al-Baghdadia]

 

A video of the Iraqi forces shooting down a Daesh spy plane in Qarma. [YouTube]

Daesh publishes photos of its “anti-armored” battalion in Falluja. [Just Paste]

 

A video of the Iraqi forces destroying a Humvee bomb in Saqlawiya. [YouTube]

Ramadi

A security source says Iraq forces raided a Daesh hideout in Hay Al-Tameem south of Ramadi, killing 8 terrorists and injuring others. [Al-Maalomah]

A security source says clashes between Iraqi forces and Daesh continue in the Al-Malaab area west of Ramadi and people there are leaving their homes. [Al-Baghdadia]

The chairman of the security committee in Khaldiya says Iraqi forces are engaged in a large military campaign to clear Hsaiba east of Ramadi, and have killed dozens of Daesh terrorists. [Al-Baghdadia] The IFP commander says Iraqi forces killed 29 Daesh fighters and destroyed many of their vehicles and weapons in Hsaiba. [Al-Sumaria]

The Anbar Operations Command says Iraqi forces supported by the Coalition airpower captured Al-Madhiq, 9 km east of Ramadi, killing dozens of Daesh terrorists. [Ray Al-Youm] A member of Anbar GC says Iraqi forces cleared Al-Madhiq completely. [Al-Sumaria]

A security source says Iraqi forces captured a school in Al-Madhiq, killing dozens of terrorists. The source says the school was Daesh’s most important headquarters in the area and the Iraqi forces are now clearing the school and the areas around it from IEDs. [Al-Baghdadia]

Daesh says a Turkish suicide bomber attacked Iraqi forces near Anbar University with a truck full of explosives, killing and injuring many of them. [Dump]

The Ameriyat Al-Falluja subdistrict council says 28 displaced people in Bzaibiz crossroads suffered from food poisoning after getting expired food items from a local NGO under the supervision of the Anbar Governor’s office. [Al-Baghdadia]

Elsewhere in Anbar

A security source says an Iraqi sniper infiltrated Daesh defense lines in Rutba and killed 2 terrorists. [Al-Baghdadia]

A security source says Daesh kidnapped 8 traffic policemen in Hit last week and killed 2 of them today. [Al-Baghdadia] Eyewitnesses say Daesh kidnapped dozens of “repented” policemen in Hit and Kubaisa, accusing them of forming secret cells to kill Daesh fighters. They say Daesh executed 2 of them publicly in Hit. [Al-Sumaria]

The Commander of the Iraqi Army’s 7th Division says his troops destroyed 3 Daesh vehicles near Al-Baghdadi, using Kornet missiles. [Al-Sumaria]

The Anbar Governor says Iraqi forces opened Al-Razzaza crossroads to displaced families leaving Anbar. [Iraq Press]

SALAHUDDIN

There were big military developments in and around Baiji, mostly bad. The Iraqi media accounts and Daesh accounts are overlapping and there is no way to entirely sort out the explanations. Daesh reported four specific vehicle bomb attacks by foreign jihadis:

–          A Tunisian terrorist attacked Iraqi forces west of Baiji with a car bomb, killing and injuring many Iraqi troops. [Dump] Daesh publishes a photo of the Tunisian terrorist and the moment of the explosion. [Dump]

–          A Turkish terrorist attacked Iraqi forces in Tal Abu Jarad, south of the refinery, killing and injuring many of them. Daesh publishes a photo of the Turkish terrorist and the moment of the explosion. [Dump]  [Dump]

–          A Tajik terrorist also attacked Iraqi forces with a car bomb in Tal Abu Jarad. [Twitter]

–          An Algerian terrorist attacked the Iraqi forces with a fourth car bomb in southwest Baiji; Daesh published his photo. [Dump]

Daesh says its terrorists control “almost half” Baiji after 6 suicide attacks. [A3maq]

Daesh publishes photos of the attack on Baiji. [Dump]Daesh publishes photos of shelling Iraqi forces with Katyusha rockets south of Baiji. [Dump]

Government reports track approximately with the Daesh claims. A government security source says Iraqi soldiers were killed or injured when Daesh attacked them with 5 oil tanker bombs in Tal Abu Jarad. [Al-Baghdadia] Another source says Daesh infiltrated Iraqi defense lines in Tal Abu Jarad and the clashes are still going on. [Al-Baghdadia] The Mayor of Baiji says Daesh attacked the Iraqi forces with 12 car bombs and 200 terrorists, killing and injuring many soldiers. [Erem] The IFP commander says Iraqi forces killed 15 Daesh terrorists and destroyed 5 vehicles in Tal Abu Jarad and Albu Jwary in Baiji. [Al-Ghad]

A security source says 2 civilians were killed and 2 injured when 20 mortar shells fell on Albu To’ma in south Baiji. [Al-Ghad]

A security source says the IAA and IAF bombed Daesh locations in several areas in Shirqat killing 120 terrorists. [Al-Mada]

A source in the Iraqi North Oil Company says Daesh smuggles oil and moves openly between Iraqi cities in coordination with corrupt Iraqi officials. Daesh lost tens of millions of dollars in revenues when Iraqi forces recaptured Ajil oil field in Salahuddin but they still have oil business in other areas. [BasNews]

BAGHDAD

More demonstrations occurred today in Baghdad and 7 other governorates. The demands were again about corruption, services and judicial independence. Some sources say the demonstrations were infiltrated by political parties. Some demonstrators in Baghdad were angry because Maliki left for an unannounced visit to Iran.

Unknown men assaulted some of the demonstrators in Al-Tahrir Square in downtown Baghdad, then ran away. [Al-Mada]

PM Abadi says he has 38 bodyguards while some officials have 900. He says there are 10,000 bodyguards just for the CoR. [Al-Mada]

PM Abadi warns that some people are trying to politicize the demonstrations and make them platforms for partisan disputes. [Al-Sumaria] The PM, responding to the demonstrations, asks the judiciary to make substantial reforms and fight corruption. [Rudaw]

President Masoum says he approved more than 300 execution sentences imposed during the last 3 years. [Al-Baghdadia] President Talabani was known to oppose capital punishment on principle.

According to security sources:

–          The bodies of three unknown men were found shot in Tarmiya in north Baghdad. [Al-Mada]

–          A civilian was killed and 6 injured in an IED explosion in a commercial area in Jisr Diyala in southeast Baghdad. [Al-Gharbiya]

–          Two civilians were killed and 6 injured in an IED explosion in Al-Mada’in in south Baghdad. [Al-Gharbiya]

–          A civilian was killed and 7 injured in an IED explosion in Bayyaa in south Baghdad. [Buratha]

–          Unknown armed men shot and killed a barber in his shop in Nafaq Al-Shurta in southwest Baghdad and injured 2 other civilians.

DaeshDaily comment: This suggests Sunni extremists as the perpetrators. During the sectarian violence from 2006 and 2007, barbershops were attacked because they were cutting beards. After several attacks, most barbers in Baghdad put signs on their shops saying “Sorry, but we don’t cut beards anymore.” 

 

KIRKUK

A Peshmerga general says the Coalition bombed Daesh targets in several villages in Daquq, killing and injuring many terrorists. [Al-Ghad] A security source says 8 Daesh terrorists were killed and 7 injured. [Al-Sumaria]

A Peshmerga source says 2 men, a woman, and her child were killed and 9 others were injured when an IED exploded on them while trying to escape from Daesh in Hawija. [Al-Mada]

NINEWA

The Peshmerga, supported by Coalition airpower, stopped Daesh attacks on Sinjar and Makhmur, killing 20 terrorists and destroying many of their vehicles. [Al-Hurra]

A PUK official says the Coalition bombed Daesh in the Sultan Abdullah village in Makhmur, killing and injuring dozens of terrorists. He also says Daesh shelled the Peshmerga in Tal Al-Reem west of Makhmur but they haven’t attacked the Kurdish forces in a long time. [PUKMedia]

Daesh publishes photos of shelling the Peshmerga with mortars and Katyusha rockets. [Just Paste]

A security source says Daesh executed another mosque imam in Mosul. [BasNews]

Kata’eb Al-Mosul says it killed 4 Daesh terrorists in 2 attacks in Mosul. [The KH FB page] [The KH FB page]

Daesh publishes photos

OTHER GOVERNORATES   

Kurdistan

A KDP official says 4 Daesh terrorists were killed in internal disputes over spoils in east Mosul. [Buratha]

 

Southern Iraq

Sistani’s rep in Kerbala says the Marjiya welcome PM Abadi’s reform program and says the reforms cannot be done without reforming the judiciary. [Al-Sumaria]

A video of demonstrators in Kerbala chanting “Tehran out out, Kerbala will remain free”. [YouTube]

DaeshDaily comment. The story runs counter to a common but debatable western media story line that Iraq is becoming an Iranian satellite. The truth is that most Iraqis don’t like Iran, and anti-Iran sentiment in strongly Shiite Kerbala has been high for a long time.

 

REPORTS FROM SYRIA

Local activists say Daesh kidnapped 50 Kurdish citizens from Al-Bab village in north Aleppo. [BasNews]

Daesh says its terrorists captured a village in north Aleppo from other armed opposition groups. [Dump] Daesh publishes a video of the clashes with the Syrian opposition in north Aleppo. [YouTube]

Friday prayers in Al-Qaryatayn. [Just Paste]

Turkish forces shot Arab displaced people from Tal Abyad trying to cross the border to Turkey, killing 3 of them and injuring 9. [Welati]

Kurdish security forces release 28 prisoners held previously for suspicion of working with Daesh in Tal Abyad. [Welati]

The Turkish Army raided the Kobane people’s refugee camps in Suruc and arrested many of them. [Hawar]

Hasaka women are forming a women’s battalion to defend the city. [Hawar]

Kurdish sources say Turkey is sending fertilizer to a Daesh controlled area in Aleppo to make explosives. [Hawar]

REPORTS FROM TURKEY

 

Turkish authorities say they arrested 34 Daesh and PKK suspects in different states. [Anadolu]

REPORTS FROM OTHER MIDDLE EAST/NORTH AFRICAN COUNTRIES 

Libya. Local sources say 12 beheaded bodies were found crucified in the eastern areas of Sirte. [Al-Wasat] Daesh arrested dozens of young men in Sirte during the last 3 days, mostly from the Al-Firjan tribe, and local sources say they might have been executed. [Al-Wasat] Local sources say Daesh invaded the health clinic in Sector 3 in Sirte and killed 22 wounded men, then burned the clinic. [Al-Wasat] Daesh had surrounded the sector and shelled it for 3 days before breaking in. [Akhbar Libya]

Local sources say a Saudi and an Egyptian Daesh terrorist were killed in the clashes in Sirte. [Al-Wasat] Several Daesh Twitter accounts say they will execute the prisoners in Sirte, and Daesh says they will publish the photos of the executions soon. [Akhbar Libya] [Akhbar Libya] Daesh says they executed 25 men from Sirte so far. [Islam Memo]

The Ministry of Health in the Libyan interim government asks the Security Council to hold an urgent meeting to discuss the situation in Sirte. [Al-Wasat] Photos of the executed men in Sirte. [Twitter] [Twitter]

Local sources say Daesh attacked Libyan government forces in Benghazi, killing 7 soldiers and destroying a tank and 3 vehicles. [Akhbar Libya] Daesh says it captured several Libyan Army posts in Al-Saberi in Benghazi and captured 2 tanks and 2 vehicles in addition to weapons and ammunitions. [Dump] [Ana Al-Muslim]

Daesh publishes photos of the results of the Libyan bombing on Harawa. [Just Paste]

SOCIAL MEDIA SOURCES

 

Facebook Page of the Day

Abdul Majid Al-Hattari, a Yemeni “imam” of Daesh.

Daesh Twitter Accounts of the Day

https://twitter.com/777kooora313

https://twitter.com/beloversniper

https://twitter.com/Aliraqi494Omar

https://twitter.com/Abo_muslim66

 

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Acronyms  

AHH

Asa’eb Ahl Al-Haq

COMSEC

Council of Ministers Secretariat

CoR

Council Of Representatives (Iraqi Parliament)

FSA

Free Syrian Army

GC

Governorate (Provincial) Council

GoI

Government of Iraq

IAA

Iraqi Army Aviation

IAF

Iraqi Air Force

IED

Improvised Explosive Devise

IFP

Iraqi Federal Police

IKR

Iraqi Kurdistan Region

IWMC

Iraqi War Media Cell

JOC

Joint Operations Command

KDP

Kurdistan Democratic Party

KH

Kata’eb Hezbollah

KM

Kata’eb Al-Mosul

KRG

Kurdistan Regional Government

MoD

Ministry of Defense

MoI

Ministry of Interior

MP

Member of Parliament

PKK

Kurdistan Workers’ Party

PM

Prime Minister

PUK

Patriotic Union of Kurdistan

PYD

Democratic Union Party (Syria)

YPG

People’s Protection Units (Syria)

 

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