An Update On ISIS Activities

December 2, 2015

December 2, 2015

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REPORTS FROM IRAQ

 

Among today’s major developments:

Failure of water system threatens public health in Mosul.

Heat is on Erdogan on multiple fronts regarding alleged Turkish cooperation with Daesh.

Daesh gains ground against opposition forces in Syria.

Cameroon Army reports freeing 900 hostages, killing 100 Boko Haram fighters.

 

ANBAR

Ramadi

Twenty-two Daesh fighters were killed in fighting to clear the east and southern approaches to Ramadi, an Anbar Operations source said, adding that security forces destroyed seven vehicles and a truck bomb and seized explosive materials. [BasNews]

 

IAF planes conducted airstrikes on Daesh positions in Tarabasha north of Ramadi, killing 20 Daesh leaders of Arab and foreign nationality. [Mada] [Baghdadia]

 

Daesh says it shelled Iraqi forces near the Albu Farraj Bridge north of Ramadi with mortars. [JustPaste]

DaeshDaily comment. Daesh never previously mentioned it had lost the bridge.

 

Coalition airplanes destroyed a Daesh vehicle, killing the terrorists inside it, in Albu Ali Al-Jassim northwest of Ramadi. [IWMC Report]

 

East of Ramadi, Iraqi Rapid Intervention forces killed two Daesh members and defused 23 IEDs, an Anbar security source said. [Sumaria]

 

Iraqi Rapid Intervention units in east Hsaiba killed 13 Daesh fighters, including a sniper, and destroyed four hideouts and defused 13 C4 IEDs. [IWMC Report]

 

An Iraqi Army officer and two soldiers were killed yesterday and two officers and a solider wounded in the failed Daesh attack on Tal Mshaihda east of the city. [IWMC Report]

 

Falluja

The IAF bombed a Daesh hideout in the industrial area in Falluja city, killing a Daesh Chechen leader called Abu Bilal. [IWMC Report]

 

The head of the Anbar Governorate Council has requested that Iraqi forces open safe passages for women, children, and seniors to exit Falluja, citing the “very difficult security situation” inside the city with food and other vital supplies dwindling, as well as Daesh’s threats to execute civilians who attempt to flee the city. [Mada]

DaeshDaily comment. We realize the statement is contradictory, but this is what he said.

 

Iraqi forces killed a terrorist and wounded another in Nuaimiya just south of Falluja. [BOC Facebook Page]

 

Daesh says it bombed and rocketed Iraqi forces in different areas in Falluja District. [JustPaste]

Daesh publishes photos of targeting an Iraqi Army building in Albu Sawda in Qarma and in Zoba’a with a 23 mm cannon. [JustPaste] [JustPaste]

 

Iraqi forces killed 14 terrorists and destroyed a vehicle and a hideout in areas east of Falluja. [BOC Facebook Page]

 

IAF planes struck a Daesh hideout in Albu Daaij east of Falluja, killing eight Daesh members and destroying a vehicle bomb. [Baghdadia]

 

An Iraqi Army 24th Brigade unit clashed with Daesh fighters in the Lihaib area in Qarma, killing one and forcing the rest to flee. [BOC Facebook Page]

 

Hit/Haditha

Jazeera Operations Command troops destroyed 60 IEDs and a car bomb and defused two booby-trapped houses in the Baghdadi area. [IWMC Report]

 

The Command also said the Iraqi Tenth Division Artillery killed ten Daesh members and destroyed 27 IEDs and a vehicle bomb in fighting around Baghdadi. [Sumaria]

 

SALAHUDDIN

Baiji

An Iraqi Army air raid targeted a Daesh gathering in the Makhoul Mountains area, killing 15 Daesh militants. [Mada]

 

A security source says Iraqi forces killed three Daesh snipers hiding in a cave in Makhoul Mountains. [Ghad]

A PMF source says his troops stopped a Daesh attack in the Makhoul Mountains area. [Harbi]

Another PMF source says Iraqi forces stopped a Daesh attack in the Fatha area. [HarbiShirqat

 

A video of a Saudi Daesh member captured by Iraqi forces. [YouTube]

 

Shirqat

The IAF destroyed a Daesh hideout in Sdaira area east of Shirqat, killing 8 terrorists including a commander. [IWMC Report]

 

Samarra

Samarra Operations Command troops found 20 IEDs and 2 rockets in addition to other explosives in the Tayoub area in Samarra District. [IWMC Report]

 

Daesh supporters republish the Samarra high school graduation certificate of Daesh leader Awwad Baghdadi. [Ana Al-Muslim]

DaeshDaily comment. The interesting thing about this old photo is that it shows a stamp of the Baath party division in the area on his diploma. All high school graduates were forced to get their diplomas stamped at the nearest Baath party headquarters; otherwise they wouldn’t be able to enter college. The Baath party division gave the student a rank of one, two or three. “One” means the student is a Baath party member (the vast majority of students were forced to join anyway); “Two” meant a supporter but not a member; and “Three” meant not a member and not a supporter. Baghdadi got a One.

This document doesn’t show that Baghdadi was a Baathist per se; however it shows he is not like other former Iraqi AQI leaders like Omar Hadid who were linked to the jihadists in Afghanistan before 2003. He was part of the official Baathist establishment as shown by the fact that he was accepted into the College of Islamic studies, which required a security clearance, and then was appointed as a mosque imam in Baghdad, which required a direct approval from Izzat Al-Douri, Saddam’s Vice President.

Baghdadi also did graduate study at the College of Islamic Studies. Only students with rank “One” could be admitted to study for a post graduate degree, no matter what their standing was in their undergraduate class.

 

A PMF source says Saraya Al-Salam rocketed a Daesh hideout west of Samarra, killing 8 Daesh members including two local commanders. [Harbi]

 

Elsewhere in Salahuddin

An IAF airstrike in northern Salahuddin killed “tens” of Daesh fighters including the organization’s military commander in the Makhoul Mountains known as Abu Saif Al-Souri. The airstrikes targeted Daesh gatherings identified through intelligence gathering. [Mada] [PUKMedia]

 

An IED exploded on a PMF foot patrol in the Himrin Mountains, killing one PMF fighter from Hawija and wounding 16 others. [Baghdadia]

 

BAGHDAD

The general secretary of Kata’eb Hezbollah says the deputy chairman of the PMF Commission, Abu Mahdi Al-Muhandis, bought $300 million worth of weapons for the Iraqi MoD, while the MoD’s allocation for the PMFs is only about 8% of the Ministry’s budget. He asked the Ministry to increase its PMF budget to 4 trillion Iraqi dinars (around $3.3 billion). He added a claim that 20,000 PMF fighters were killed or wounded in the battles against Daesh so far. [Sumaria]

DaeshDaily comment. And from where, may we ask, did Mr. Muhandis get the money?

 

Prime Minister Abadi has “ended the duties” of the Minister of Trade, Muhammad Abd Al-Kareem Al-Kasnazani. He said he considers the Minister “resigned” from his position and says he failed to discharge his ministerial duties. Last month an investigative court in Baghdad restricted the Minister and several other high-level officials in the Trade Ministry from traveling pending adjudication of corruption charges. [Mada]

DaeshDaily comment: The Minister is implicated in several corruption cases and his bodyguards admitted killing Ministry employees who wanted to report the corruption.

 

PM Abadi also vowed to open an extensive investigation into the killing, by unknown gunmen, of Kirkuk GC Mohammed Khalil Al-Jubouri two days ago. The Badr organization has already announced that it holds Daesh responsible for the killings. [BasNews] [Sumaria]

 

An MoD spokesman says Iraq will file an official complaint with the Security Council if the reports about Turkey buying Iraqi oil from Daesh turn out to be true. [PUKMedia]

 

The Kata’eb Hezbollah killed five would-be suicide bombers targeting Shia pilgrims heading to Karbala in a battle lasting over an hour, a security source said. All five bombers were killed in the battle with no civilian or Hezbollah casualties announced. [Sumaria]

 

The MoD publishes a video of airstrikes on Daesh in several areas. [MoD Website]

 

An Iraqi Army 23rd Brigade unit defused 4 IEDs in Tal Al-Samar and another one in Yusufiyah in south Baghdad. [BOC Facebook Page]

 

According to security sources:

  • An IED exploded near the main supermarket in Shaab in north Baghdad, wounding a civilian. [Ghad]
  • The body of an unknown woman was discovered in the Al-Nasr area of east Baghdad bearing multiple stab wounds [Mada]
  • One person died and two were injured when a sticky IED attached to a civilian car exploded in the Karrada District in central Baghdad. [Mada]
  • An IED exploded near a popular market in the Zafaraniya area of southeast Baghdad, killing two and wounding four others. [Mada] Unknown armed men opened fire on a civilian in Zafaraniya, killing him on the spot. [Sumaria]
  • An IED exploded in the al-Furat area near a bakery complex in southwest Baghdad, killing two and wounding seven others. [Mada] [Baghdadia]
  • A roadside IED exploded in the Street 9 area of Bayya in southwest Baghdad, killing one civilian and wounding two others. [Baghdadia] [Sumaria]
  • An IED near a commercial area killed one and wounded six others in the Iskan area of west Baghdad. [Mada]
  • An IED exploded on an Iraqi military patrol in the Abu Ghraib area west of Baghdad, wounding four soldiers. [Baghdadia]

 

KIRKUK

A funeral was held for the slain Arab Kirkuk GC member Muhammad Khalil al-Jubouri in a Kirkuk city cemetery. Governor Najmaldin Karim has denounced the killing and committed security forces in the region to work swiftly to find the perpetrators. [Sumaria]

 

A security source says 150 families escaped from Daesh controlled areas in Hawija and Shirqat and headed to Kirkuk waiting for Peshmerga approval to get in. [Ghad]

A PUK official says many families are leaving Hawija and Shirqat towards Mosul, anticipating an attack on both cities. [IraqPress] [See Mosul story below]

 

Videos of families escaped from Hawija and secured by PMFs [Harbi] [Harbi]

 

The IAF destroyed two Daesh IED factories in Hawija. [IWMC Report]

 

A security source says Coalition airplanes bombed Daesh locations in Riyadh and Rashad in southwestern Kirkuk, killing ten terrorists. [Sumaria]

 

NINEWA

Sinjar

Seven Peshmerga fighters were killed in the Jadarai village in Sinjar when a booby-trapped house exploded, the Mayor of Sinjar announced, pointing out that the death toll was higher than the number of Peshmerga killed in the liberation of Sinjar. [Rudaw]

 

Mosul

Coalition planes targeted Daesh positions in Sinjar, and in Qayara in southern Mosul District, killing and wounding 35 Daesh members.  [Mada]

 

Mosul has been without running water for the last three weeks, since emergency power has been cut in the city, a local resident said, alleging that the Iraqi government is hesitant to try to liberate the city now and warning of a humanitarian catastrophe in the making. Residents have turned to drinking well water, which is polluted and unfit for drinking, causing illness to spread, especially among children. [Mada]

 

Tens of families have fled from Hawija and Shirqat to Mosul, for fear of Coalition airstrikes, a PUK source said, saying that the families had arrived after Daesh expelled the original Christian, Kurdish, or religious minority inhabitants to take up residence in the vacant houses. [PUKMedia]

 

Other Governorates  

KURDISTAN

The General Secretary of the Peshmerga Ministry says the United States sent heavy weapons for the Peshmerga. The weapons are now in Kuwait and will arrive in a month. [IraqPress]

 

REPORTS FROM TURKEY

 

 Another report from Turkey translated by a DaeshDaily friend

Turkey’s left-wing Bir Gün newspaper reports that an opposition deputy has raised a question in parliament about Russia’s accusations that Daesh is selling its petrol through Turkey, aided and abetted by the Turkish government. CHP legislator Mahmut Tanal, from Istanbul, cited Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev’s statement following the downing of the Russian jet that, “Turkey has demonstrated with this act that it is protecting the Daesh militants. Bearing in mind the direct financial gain that certain Turkish officials who are involved in the distribution of petroleum products manufactured at facilities belonging to Daesh derive from this process, this is nothing surprising.”

Tanal submitted a list of questions with the request that they be answered by Interior Minister Efkan Ala: “Is the distribution of petrol produced at facilities belonging to the Daesh terror organization being conducted on Turkish territory? Who are the Turkish officials whom Medvedev alleges are involved in the delivery process? Is there a connection between the delivery of petrol products alleged to be conducted jointly with Daesh and the grounding of the Russian warplane? Was said warplane grounded for the purpose of strengthening economic ties and to please the petrol manufacturers?” [Bir Gün]

Russia has published a video of oil tankers crossing the border from Syria to Turkey. [RT]

Erdogan said today that no one has the right to insult Turkey by accusing it of buying oil from Daesh. [Aawsat]

 

The KRG representative in Moscow has told Russian authorities that he suspects that Turkey maintains economic ties with Daesh. [PUKMedia]

 

The German TV channel ARD has reported that Daesh sells captured Yazidi women in “slave markets” in southwest Turkey. Its correspondent was reportedly able to make contact with a Kurdish middleman who has assisted families in negotiating the paid release of family members. With the middleman’s help the ARD correspondent was able to negotiate the sale of a prisoner, receiving instructions to visit an office in Gaziantep where the TV correspondent presented a sum of $15,000 for the release of an eleven-year old girl. The money was mechanically counted by the staff in the office, reportedly staffed by Syrians only. Shortly after this the correspondent received a WhatsApp message confirming that Daesh had received the payment and would release the girl. The Kurdish middleman Abi Mital said he had been able to secure the release of 250 Yazidi women and children in this fashion and that Daesh had taken over $250 million in return for their release. [PUKMedia]

 

REPORTS FROM SYRIA

 

Northeast

Daesh forces attacked the town of Tal Aren with shells and mortars, killing two civilians and wounding ten others. [Hawar]

 

Daesh publishes a video from Raqqa of beheading a Russian (Chechen) “spy” who joined Daesh in 2014. The execution was conducted by a terrorist who also spoke Russian. [Archive]

 

Daesh publishes photos of shelling the Safawiya village east of Ain Eissa. [JustPaste]

Daesh says its terrorists attacked YPG forces west of Ain Eissa then a suicide terrorist attacked the YPG with a vehicle bomb, killing 26 Kurdish fighters. [A3maq]

 

Northwest

Daesh says it captured the town of Kufra in Aleppo’s northern countryside from Jabha Shamiya and Ahrar Al-Sham (photos and a video). [JustPaste] [A3maq]

Other news sources say Daesh forces reclaimed territory in fighting with the Democratic Syria Forces in Kufra between Afrin and Azaz, an Afrin District spokesperson said. SDF fighters had just liberated the village from Daesh some days ago. Nusra Front fighters had loosened their control over roads leading to the area, which helped Daesh in its battle with the SDF, the source said. [BasNews] [Welati] [ARA]

 

Daesh publishes photos of beheading a man in Manbij accused of witchcraft. [JustPaste]

DaeshDaily comment. Usually Daesh uses this accusation against Sufi Muslims.

 

A Daesh Sharia court judge known as Farouq was found dead in his home in Manbij near Aleppo, prompting Daesh to conduct widespread detentions of more than 30 residents, a local activist told BasNews. In the same region, in the town of Bazae, between Manbij and Al-Bab, five Daesh members have been killed by unknown assailants in the last two days. Daesh has reportedly arrested more than 250 residents in the past five days in the area, four of whom it executed on Tuesday. Daesh also reportedly publicly executed a man in Jarabulus on charges of blasphemy. [BasNews] [ARA]

 

Daesh also launched heavy shelling and rocket attacks in the countryside north of Aleppo, but the Syrian Front and Fatah Halab forces were able to put down the attack. [ARA]

 

The Ahrar Souriya Brigade along with Nusra Front has launched mortar and rocket attacks on the Sheikh Maqsoud District of Aleppo, resulting in as many as ten civilian deaths and a number of injuries. The brigade forces were in turn targeted by airstrikes by unidentified air forces. [Welati] [Hawar] [Hawar]

 

Central and West

Daesh says one of its Syrian suicide bombers attacked a Syrian Army convoy near Al-Qaryatayn in eastern Homs, killing around 30 soldiers and destroying 2 tanks and an armored vehicle. [Dump]

 

REPORTS FROM OTHER MIDDLE EAST/NORTH AFRICAN COUNTRIES

 

Daesh publishes the fourth issue of its Konstantiniyye (Constantinople) magazine. [Archive]
Daesh publishes a video of some of its German terrorists. By the end of the video one of them blows himself up to kill Shia somewhere in Iraq. [GoogleDrive]

 

Daesh publishes infographics about its operations in Iraq and Syria during the month of November. [A3maq]

 

Daesh audio newsletter for today in English [Archive]

 

Yemen. Daesh publishes photos of executing two security personnel in Hadhramaut. [JustPaste]

 

Libya.   Several media sources said Daesh is training some of its terrorists to fly airplanes using a simulator that might have been looted from a government facility. [AfriGate]

Council of Mujahidin in Derna executed a local Daesh leader who was captured earlier. [Erem]

 

Tunisia.  Security forces were deployed extensively in Tunis after reports about potential attacks. [AfriGate]

Tunisian authorities conducted 227 raids and arrested 20 terrorism suspects. [Tunisien]

 

Daesh publishes photos of one of its media events in Sirte. [JustPaste]

Daesh publishes two photos of the weapons it captured from Shuhada Abu Sleem militia in Derna. [JustPaste]

Daesh publishes a video of its terrorists in Harawa celebrating the Paris attacks and sending more threats. [Archive]

 

Other locations

Cameroon.  The Cameroon Army says its military operations near the Nigerian border killed 100 Boko Haram terrorists, released more than 900 hostages, and confiscated weapons and vehicles in addition to Daesh flags. [Tunisien]

 

SOCIAL MEDIA SOURCES

 

Facebook Page of the Day

A pro-Daesh page from Mosul

 

Daesh Twitter Accounts of the Day

https://twitter.com/majd_alkhalil1

https://twitter.com/basha_0006

https://twitter.com/fahdhammod200

https://twitter.com/asdasd123hhh

https://twitter.com/Katusha__38

 

 

 

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