December 22, 2015
REPORTS FROM IRAQ
Today’s Major Developments:
Iraqi forces make large gains in coordinated attack on Ramadi city.
Turks decide not to leave Ninewa despite all the calls to withdraw.
PUK, KIU parties in KRG refuse Gorran’s call to withhold participation in the government.
Syrian Army battles Daesh for Eastern Syria
BAGHDAD
Political developments
Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu says Turkish troops will not quit Iraqi territory until after Mosul is liberated from Daesh. In a statement issued to the media at a gathering of the ruling AKP party in Ankara, the PM said “We are offering support to the Peshmerga and to local volunteers and we will do this until Mosul’s liberation from Daesh,” adding that “we will not withdraw our military forces that are present there until the terrorist threat in Iraq is ended,” and indicating that “Turkey is working to reinforce its military presence in Iraq.” [Mada]
A Turkish training crew will remain on base in Bashiqa in Ninewa, Turkish Defense Minister İsmet Yılmaz has announced. He also reportedly said that Turkey would, in his words, continue to work against all terrorist groups that threaten the security and safety of Iraq, saying that Turkey considered the security of neighboring countries an aspect of its own security. [Maalomah] [Anadolu]
The remarks by the Turkish PM and Defense Minister came as a portion of the Turkish forces stationed at the Zilkan camp in Bashiqa were seen withdrawing toward the Turkish border. [Rudaw]
An MP from Ninewa, Ahmad Al-Jubouri, has announced his intention to question the Iraqi Defense Minister Khalid Al-Obeidi on the matter of the Turkish deployment to Ninewa, noting that the Minister reportedly visited the base where Turkish forces were encamped without making any reports on it. [Sumaria]
Foreign Minister Ibrahim Al-Jaafari has criticized recent calls “on the television screens” for Iraq to join the recently formed Saudi-led Islamic Coalition against terrorism. He seemed miffed at Iraq not being invited to join, saying that Iraq represents a profound part of Islamic and Arab civilization and should be treated the same way as other sovereign Arab states. [Sumaria]
The National Coalition parliamentary bloc led by Ayad Allawi has decided to suspend its participation in the current Iraqi government and in any ministries, the bloc’s leader announced, citing the “erroneous policies” of the Abadi government. The bloc’s leader also denied recent reports that three of the bloc’s members were listed as possibilities to replace the previous Minister, from the National Coalition, who was removed due to corruption charges. [Maalomah]
DaeshDaily comment. Allawi might be feeling dissed by the elimination of his Vice President position. The National Coalition had only one minister, who became a source of embarrassment and likely won’t be replaced by another bloc member. This leaves it with no high-level representation, to which they are giving a not unfamiliar Iraqi reaction.
The Integrity Commission has sentenced former Finance Minister, Rafi Al-Essawi to a year in prison on charges related to hiring family members for civil service positions and awarding promotions by illegal means. This sentence is separate from the seven-year corruption sentence handed down by the court earlier in the month against Al-Essawi and several others. [Sumaria]
DaeshDaily comment. Whatever the merits of the charges against Al-Essawi, this is not good news. It’s another Sunni Arab leader taken down by criminal charges, reinforcing the widespread belief that the court system has become a sectarian Shia weapon against Sunnis. This issue helped to topple Al-Maliki, and many of those demonstrators protesting the judicial system are aiming specifically at the lead justice, regarded by some critics as Al-Maliki’s puppet based on controversial previous decisions (but not a Maliki appointee).
“Shameless militias” have exploited the national preoccupation with the struggle against Daesh to steal Iraqi oil from foreign oil companies by using the cover provided by membership in the security forces, said Moqtada Al-Sadr from his office in Najaf. The allegation came in response to a recent incident in Wasit Governorate in which gunmen in military guise broke into a Russian Gazprom facility. Sadr said the attack was not the first of its kind and would not be the last. [Mada]
Along the same line, a member of Baghdad GC has accused unnamed Iraqi officials and members of the security forces of perpetrating crimes of abduction and assassination against Iraqi citizens inside the capital. Said Ghaleb Zamili has told Mada Press that intelligence weaknesses in the agencies responsible for Baghdad’s security, the protection of criminal elements by some officials, and the misuse of official identities and officially licensed weapons for carrying out criminal activities have led to a dangerous security situation in the capital. Some of the criminal elements with official protection may be linked to Daesh, he added. He called for a review of the security services in the capital to avoid repeated security breaches and to protect Iraqi citizens. [Mada]
Security developments
An Iraqi Army 52nd Brigade unit destroyed a Daesh hideout and killed 6 terrorists inside it in Shiha west of Baghdad. [FOC Facebook Page]
An Iraqi Rapid Intervention Unit killed 2 terrorists and wounded another in Al-Rofa west of Baghdad. [FOC Facebook Page]
Another Rapid Intervention unit killed 2 terrorists near the Dhiban Bridge west of Baghdad. [FOC Facebook Page]
An Iraqi Army 4th Brigade defused an IED in Sabaa Qusour in north Baghdad. [FOC Facebook Page]
Daesh says its terrorists attacked and wounded a PMF fighter in Tarmiya in northern Baghdad Governorate. [DabiqNews]
According to security sources:
- An IED exploded near a popular market in Saba’ Al-Bor in north Baghdad, killing a civilian and wounding five. [Maalomah]
- An IED exploded in the Cairo sector of north Baghdad, killing one civilian and wounding eight. [Mada]
- An IED exploded near a popular restaurant in the Sheik Omar area in downtown Baghdad, killing two civilians and wounding seven. [Mada]
- Unknown armed men on a motorcycle shot and killed a school teacher using guns with silencers in Hay Al-Nasr in east Baghdad. [Mada]
- A sticky IED exploded under a civilian car on Palestine Street in east Baghdad, killing a civilian and wounding two. [Buratha]
- The body of an unknown woman was found stabbed in Al-Amin in east Baghdad. [Mada]
- An IED exploded in the industrial area in Nahrawan in south Baghdad, killing two civilians and wounding seven. [Mada]
- An IED exploded in Hay Al-Amel in southwest Baghdad, killing a civilian and wounding four. [Mada]
- An IED exploded near a popular market in Bakriya in west Baghdad killing a civilian and wounding nine. [Mada]
ANBAR
Tribal PMFs in Anbar will not turn themselves into a political movement, unlike their predecessors the Sahwa forces, the Anbar Tribal Council has stated. A member of the Council told Mada Press that the Anbar PMFs, numbering over 8,000 fighters, are purely a military force assembled to support Iraqi ground forces, and do not possess political goals nor seek to become “another copy” of the Sahwa project. [Mada]
Ramadi
The MoD spokesman says Iraqi forces crossed the Warrar River on a temporary bridge towards Ramadi city center and started to clear city areas, including from IEDs. [Maalomah]
A photo of the bridge [Facebook]
The Anbar Police Chief says Iraqi units liberated several important areas in south Ramadi city. [Sumaria]
A security source says the Anbar Police, led by their Chief, crossed Street 60 and entered Ramadi city center. [Sumaria]
An Anbar Police source says Iraqi forces broke into the Jamaiya and 17 July areas in north Ramadi killing many Daesh terrorists. [Mada]
The Anti-Terrorism Service (ATS) says its troops broke into Ramadi city from several sides and started to clear areas inside the city. [Maalomah]
An ATS spokesman says Iraqi troops, supported by the IAF, are moving toward the government compound in Ramadi. He also says the Iraqi forces are fighting Daesh in the areas around the compound. [Ghad]
The ATS Commander says Iraqi troops achieved all their military goals for today. He also says there are no civilians in the areas where Iraqi forces advanced. [Sumaria]
An ATS source says Iraqi forces cleared Hay Al-Bakr, just southeast of Ramadi, killing 33 Daesh terrorists and destroying 4 vehicle bombs. [Mada] A security source says they raised the Iraqi flag there. [Sumaria]
An Anbar Operations Command source says American Special Forces supported by Apache helicopters are conducting military operations in Ramadi, targeting Daesh leaders and supply lines. The source says the forces are working separately from the Iraqi forces in Ramadi but depend on Iraqi information sources in the city. [Mada]
A security source says tens of Daesh terrorists were killed in a Coalition airstrike on the Dhubbat 2 area in southeast Ramadi. [Ghad]
A local Anbar official says Iraqi forces liberated the Dhubbat 1 and Ummal areas in Ramadi city, killing many terrorists. [Mada] A security source said Iraqi artillery shelled Daesh in Dhubbat killing 6 terrorists and destroying 2 hideouts. [Sumaria]
A security source confirmed the report about liberating Dhubbat and said Iraqi forces raised the Iraqi flag in the area. [Sumaria]
An Anbar Operations Command source says tribal fighters killed 7 Daesh commanders in the Barid Street neighborhood in Ramadi city center. [Mada]
The Chairman of Khaldiya subdistrict council says Iraqi forces attacked Ramadi city from the north, east and south, killing 40 Daesh fighters so far. He says they cleared the Milk Factory in north Ramadi, one of Daesh’s main headquarters in the city. He also says Iraqi forces shelled and rocketed Daesh locations in the city, destroying 9 vehicle bombs. [Mada] [Maalomah]
A member of the Khaldiya council says the battle of Ramadi will be over within the next 48 hours. He says Iraqi forces are clearing the city while Daesh planted several suicide terrorists and the IAA is targeting them. [Maalomah]
The Chairman of Anbar GC says Daesh was “broken” in Ramadi and the announcement of the liberation of the entire city will come soon. [Sumaria]
A member of Ramadi District Council says dozens of Daesh terrorists escaped to Sufiya east of Ramadi after Iraqi troops entered the city center. [Maalomah]
Videos of Iraqi forces in Ramadi [Harbi] [Harbi]
A video of Ramadi people celebrating the arrival of Iraqi forces [YouTube]
Daesh online supporters publish 2 photos of calm streets, claiming they were taken today in Ramadi. [Facebook]
The CoR Speaker says he is proud of the Iraqi forces’ victories in Ramadi and asks that they protect and secure the civilians in the city. [Sumaria]
A security source says Iraqi forces advanced from Albu Farraj north of Ramadi in the direction of the Ramadi General Hospital in the city. [Baghdadia]
The Anbar Operations Commander says Iraqi forces cleared Jaraishi in north Ramadi, clearing all IEDs and killing 9 Daesh fighters. [Sumaria] Another source says 23 Daesh terrorists were killed in the operation to clear Jaraishi. [Maalomah]
Another Anbar Operations Command source says Iraqi forces cleared the road between Jaraishi and Albu Dhiab, north and northwest of Ramadi. [Mada]
The Anbar Operations Commander says 5 brigades of local tribal fighters arrived in Ramadi to hold the ground in the liberated areas. [Mada]
A member of Anbar GC says Iraqi forces took 15 families under their protection who escaped Daesh in Ramadi, and moved them to secure areas. [Mada]
A security source says the IAA targeted Daesh locations in Humaira south of Ramadi, killing many terrorists. [Baghdadia]
The IWMC says the IAF destroyed a Daesh vehicle bomb garage in Assriya village north of Ramadi. [Baghdadia]
An Iraqi Army 8th Division source says the Division destroyed a Daesh vehicle bomb while it was attacking Iraqi forces in Hay Al-Aramil in south Ramadi. A suicide terrorist with an explosives vest was killed in the area. [Sumaria] [Sumaria]
The Rapid Intervention Commander says Iraqi forces rocketed Daesh in east Hsaiba, killing 17 terrorists. [Sumaria]
Daesh publishes 2 photos of shelling Iraqi forces in Adnaniya west of Ramadi. [ADI]
DaeshDaily comment. Until recently Daesh said Iraqi forces couldn’t capture that area, but apparently they did.
Falluja
In a bizarre and stunning incident, 2 suicide bombers detonated themselves on Daesh in Falluja, killing many Daesh members. A security source says Daesh could not have known the identity of the 2 suicide bombers. [Maalomah]
DaeshDaily comment. After killing so many people using suicide bombers, this incident might be the first time Daesh tastes its own medicine in Iraq.
A security source says unknown men stabbed and killed 4 Daesh terrorists in Falluja. [Sumaria]
Iraqi forces killed 19 terrorists and destroyed 4 vehicles and defused 21 IEDs in the sixth day of military operations south of Falluja. [FOC Facebook Page]
A security source says the IAF destroyed Daesh hideouts and killed several terrorists south of Falluja. [Ghad]
An Anbar Operations Command source says an Iraqi Army major was killed and one of his soldiers wounded by a Daesh sniper near Ameriyat Al-Falluja. [Mada]
Hit/Haditha
Daesh says its terrorists launched a big attack on Albu Hayat east of Haditha and clashed with Iraqi troops for six hours, then rocketed them with 20 Katyushas. [ADI]
SALAHUDDIN
Baiji
An Iraqi JOC source says the IAF bombed a Daesh gathering in the Makhoul Mountains area, killing 19 terrorists, including a Chechen commander called Abu Abdullah, and destroyed 5 vehicles. The terrorists were preparing to attack Iraqi forces in the area. [Mada]
A security source says more than 300 Daesh fighters gathered in Sheik Ali village near Baiji preparing for an attack on Baiji, Makhoul or Siniya. The source says Daesh is trying to cover for its losses in Ramadi. [Ghad]
Samarra
The Samarra Operations Commander says Iraqi troops supported by the IAA killed 86 Daesh terrorists and destroyed 10 vehicle bombs and 4 other vehicles and 5 hideouts in several areas around Samarra during the last two days, especially in the west. He also says security forces secured the Shia pilgrimage ceremonies in Samarra. Hundreds of thousands of people visited the shrines in the city. [Maalomah]
A security source says the IAF destroyed a Daesh rocket launcher in Jazeera Samarra that was prepared to launch on the shrines in Samarra. The source says several Daesh terrorists were killed in the airstrike. [Mada]
DaeshDaily comment. Attacks like this that can generate a lot of media attention should be expected from Daesh now as a reaction to its impending losses in Ramadi.
DIYALA
Muqdadiya/Abu Saida
A security source says the mayor of Abu Saida survived an IED attack on his convoy near Mukhaisa village. The source says no human casualties resulted from the attack. [Sumaria]
DaeshDaily comment. Daesh terrorists are still hiding in this village especially in its orchards.
KIRKUK
The bodies of two unknown men were found shot and buried in Qula village, 30 km (19 miles) northeast of Kirkuk. [Sumaria]
A Peshmerga source says Coalition airplanes and Peshmerga artillery targeted a Daesh gathering in Dibis, killing 5 terrorists and wounding others. [Mada]
NINEWA
Mosul
An unknown group in Mosul has reportedly raised the Iraqi flag over a building in the city center after Iraqi planes dropped leaflets announcing that the liberation of Mosul was approaching, local sources say. Daesh quickly removed the flag, and announced stiff punishments for all residents in the area if the act is repeated. [Karemlash]
Peshmerga militia have killed the oldest son of Daesh’s director of the Mosul municipal office, medical sources confirmed, as the son was fighting for Daesh in recent clashes with the Peshmerga on the Bashiqa front east of Mosul. [Karemlash]
A KDP official says Daesh executed 17 people publicly in Mosul, accusing them of using the internet. [Mada]
A Ninewa Police captain says the Coalition bombed a Daesh convoy on the road between Mosul and Hatra, killing 13 terrorists and wounding 3. [BasNews]
The captain also says Daesh blew up three houses belonging to Christian displaced families in the Arabi area in north Mosul. [BasNews]
The same source says Daesh executed 4 teachers west of Mosul for refusing to teach Daesh curriculum. [BasNews]
Daesh publishes photos and a video of the results of the bombing on the 17 July area in Mosul yesterday and says many civilians, including women and children, were killed in the bombing. Daesh later said 5 civilians were killed in the airstrike. [Karemlash] [Karemlash] [A3maq] [DabiqNews]
Daesh publishes photos of normal life in Hay Al-Fath in Mosul. [DabiqNews]
Daesh publishes photos of the results of Coalition airstrikes on a grain silo in Mosul. [DabiqNews]
Northwest Ninewa
A KDP official says the Peshmerga rocketed Daesh in the asphalt factory, a Daesh headquarters in Bashiqa, killing 12 terrorists and destroying the factory. [Mada]
A Peshmerga commander says his troops, supported by Coalition airpower, killed 26 Daesh terrorists in Bashiqa before retreating safely to their locations. [Aawsat]
Daesh publishes photos of an attack on the Peshmerga in Al-Khazer. [DabiqNews]
Other Governorates
KURDISTAN
The PUK and the Kurdistan Islamic Union (KIU) have rebuffed the Gorran party’s recent demand that the PUK and KIU refuse to participate in KRG cabinet meetings. A Gorran representative stated that the KDP and Gorran are the only two parties which have taken positions on what Gorran has described as KDP leader Masoud Barzani’s “illegitimate” tenure of the presidency of the KRG. The PUK and KIU have been supporting Gorran in the issue over Barzani’s authority and Gorran’s exclusion from the government, but PUK and KIU representatives defended their respective parties’ right to make their own decisions. [Rudaw]
The Gorran party in Kurdistan considers the Iraqi Kurdistan Region a “strong candidate” for joining the Saudi-led Islamic Coalition against terrorism announced last week, saying that the IKR occupied an important position in the war against terrorism. Gorran’s General Secretary, Mohammed Baziani, said the IKR was an agent for stability and security in the region, adding that joining the Saudi-led coalition would enhance the IKR’s international role. Baziani also stated that Saudi Arabia and Turkey have been dealing with Iraqi Kurdistan as though it were an “independent state,” citing KRG President Masoud Barzani’s recent official visits to Riyadh and Ankara. [Sumaria]
Amid a deep budget crisis, the KRG has announced a reform package that would see reductions in high-level and private salaries in the IKR. The pay cuts will reportedly include a 50 percent reduction in the salaries of the President and his deputy, the Prime Minister and his deputy, and ministers and other high-level officials, and leaders of the judiciary; spending cuts in money allocated for the President, deputy president, and Speaker of the KRG Parliament; and 30 percent salary cuts for those holding the rank of ministry directors-general or the equivalent. Cuts are also due for allowances given to pensioners having special grades. A committee will be formed to review social spending and other government outlays. [Baghdadia]
The Italian government has officially opened a consulate in Erbil, in a ceremony attended by the President of the Italian Senate and KRG PM Nechirvan Barzani. In its report, Rudaw also notes that there are 17 foreign consulates in the IKR, six embassy offices (including an Italian office), six embassy branches, and four offices of cooperation and coordination. [Rudaw]
[Rudaw]
REPORTS FROM TURKEY
Another interesting article translated by our friend from Turkey.
Soldiers’ dirty cross-border relations with Daesh
The Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office investigated suspicious communications in Gazientep on the Syrian border between Turkish soldiers and Daesh members, eventually investigating 27 people, but determined it did not have jurisdiction and turned the file over to a Military Prosecutor’s Office, which is reportedly investigating this. Communications uncovered by the Cumhuriyet newspaper showed that there was extensive communication between Turkish soldiers and Daesh members and that Daesh recruits received training and support from people in Ankara and transportation back to Syria to fight with Daesh.
Meanwhile, Can Dundar, Editor in Chief of Cumhuriyet, wrote an op-ed piece appearing in the Washington Post Tuesday, reporting that he is now one of over 20 journalists put in jail by decision of the Turkish government. He and a colleague were jailed in spite of their constitutional rights because Turkey’s leaders were angry at Cumhuriyet for reporting other parts of this same story about collaboration between Turkey’s military and Daesh. [Cumhuriyet]
Our friend in Turkey translated the article to English here.
REPORTS FROM SYRIA
Northeast
A land mine exploded on agricultural land in the Hasaka countryside, killing a civilian and wounding eight members of his family, ARA reports. Daesh planted the mine before it withdrew from the area. Asayish intelligence forces announced yesterday that their engineers had dismantled ten IEDs on roads in the area. [ARA]
A video has reportedly emerged showing a Moroccan member of Daesh executing a civilian in the south Hasaka countryside by tying him to a tree and then killing him with gunfire, without the reasons being known. [ARA]
A civilian was killed and eight wounded when a Daesh landmine exploded in an agricultural area near Al-Hawl. [BasNews]
Daesh publishes photos of shelling and rocketing areas east of Ain Eissa. [ADI]
Northwest
Russian warplanes have intervened on the side of Daesh in fighting in the countryside north of Aleppo, launching airstrikes on the town of Harbal on the frontlines of fighting between Sunni Jabhat Shamiya fighters and Daesh. This led to a number of JS fighters receiving serious wounds, according to a JS field commander. The commander said that forces were shelling Daesh positions in an attempt to break Daesh control over several points around the town when Russian warplanes made several raids on their positions. [ARA]
Daesh has used explosives to destroy two schools in villages near Sarrin in the Kobane countryside along the confrontation line between its forces and those of the YPG, a YPG fighter said. He noted that the villages had been empty of inhabitants for months as residents fled to avoid the fighting in the area, and without reporting on the occurrence of casualties in the blasts. [ARA]
DaeshDaily comment. So why would Daesh destroy schools? Their logic is that if those schools are not under their governance, they should be destroyed. The real Daesh message, therefore, is not about education but about the improbability that they will get control of this area back in the foreseeable future.
Daesh publishes a video of two barrel bombs dropped on Sharba’a village north of Kowaires. [A3maq]
Daesh publishes photos of destroying a Syrian Army T72 tank north of Kowaires airbase, killing two soldiers. [DabiqNews] [A3maq]
Daesh publishes photos of the results of the bombing on Aisha village. [DabiqNews]
Central and West
Daesh says its anti-aircraft units shot down two Syrian jets, one on the highway between Homs and Damascus and the other near Mahin. [DabiqNews]
Daesh publishes photos of shelling Syrian troops with mortars in the Dowa area in Homs. [DabiqNews]
Daesh says one of its suicide terrorists attacked Syrian troops in Dowa with a vehicle bomb, killing or wounding “tens” of them. [ADI]
Daesh says it attacked Syrian troops west of Tadmur with a vehicle bomb without giving more details. [A3maq]
East
Thirty-two civilians are reported dead amid heavy shelling, clashes, and airstrikes involving Daesh, Russian warplanes, and Syrian regime forces. Russian planes have intensified their aerial assault on Deir Ez-Zor, striking the Hamidiya and Haweiqa areas in the city, with several civilians reported injured or killed. Russian planes also reportedly targeted the Siyasiya Bridge over the Euphrates, the only link between Deir Ez-Zor city and its countryside.
At the same time Syrian regime forces shelled and rocketed the town of Hatla in the Deir Ez-Zor countryside, while Daesh and Syrian Army units clashed near the village of Jufra near the Deir Ez-Zor military airport. Daesh fired on Syrian Army positions inside the airport, while Syrian heavy artillery shelled the Sinaa and Haweiqa areas. Daesh also conducted an arrest campaign in Mayadin village, taking 15 civilians into custody on various charges. Nine Syrian students were killed when a mortar shell fell on a girls’ school in the Harabish area of Deir Ez-Zor. The shell was one of several likely launched by Daesh on the area. [ANA] [Qasioun] [Qasioun] [Qasioun]
The Syrian MoI says Daesh shelled a girls’ school in Deir Ez-Zor, killing nine students and wounding fifteen. [SANA]
REPORTS FROM OTHER MIDDLE EAST/NORTH AFRICAN COUNTRIES
Daesh audio newsletter for today in Arabic. [DabiqNews]
Egypt. Security sources say a soldier and a civilian were wounded in an IED explosion on a military armored vehicle in the Nasr Mosque area in Arish center. [VetoGate] [VetoGate]
Security sources say an IED exploded on a police armored vehicle in Kharouba village south of Sheik Zuweid, wounding seven policemen. [VetoGate]
Daesh publishes photos of destroying an M113 military vehicle near Kharouba. [DabiqNews]
Security sources say explosives experts defused an IED near a police station in Arish. [VetoGate]
Libya. The Libyan government announced that Wednesday will be a holiday celebrating the Mawlid Nabawi (Prophet Mohammed birthday), while Daesh announced it will punish anyone who celebrates. [LibyaAkhbar]
DaeshDaily comment. Muslims all over the world celebrate the Mawlid Nabawi except for the Wahhabis who consider it a “bid’ah” (a non-Islamic innovation).
Tunisia. A Sufi location was destroyed by an IED in Tripoli without human casualties. Daesh has attacked several Sufi locations in Libya. [AfriGate]
DaeshDaily comment. This is another thing Daesh doesn’t like.
The Libyan Army spokesman says Libyan troops are fighting Daesh and targeting their locations in Ajdabiya. [AfriGate]
Daesh publishes photos of burning expired medicines in Sirte. [ADI]
Daesh says it detonated an IED on Libyan armed groups in Derna. [DabiqNews]
The Tunisia Minister of Interior says 15 terrorism plans were foiled during December, without giving more details. [Tunisien]
Cross-Reference
Time to Focus on the Wars Within the War Against the Islamic State
http://warontherocks.com/2015/12/time-to-focus-on-the-wars-within-the-war-against-the-islamic-state/
Isis seeking to set up ‘distant caliphate’ in Indonesia
SOCIAL MEDIA SOURCES
Facebook Page of the Day
Daesh’s Battar Media page
Daesh Twitter Accounts of the Day
https://twitter.com/vftg108/status/679369679010439169
https://twitter.com/om_ans_123
https://twitter.com/rkrk4m39
https://twitter.com/alwafaa03572552
https://twitter.com/Mhll_70
