July 21, 2015
REPORTS FROM IRAQ
Iraqi forces continue their advances on Falluja and Ramadi. Daesh is still trying to show a victory face by increasing attacks on civilians in Baghdad.
ANBAR
Iraqi Federal Police commander says his forces killed 23 Daesh terrorists and destroyed 13 vehicles and 3 boats in Anbar and Salahuddin. [Iraqi Media Network]
Falluja
The PMFs say the Saraya Al-Jihad militia, supported by the IAA, foiled a Daesh attack on Al-Shiha north of Falluja, killing 40 terrorists and destroying 3 machine guns. [Iraqi Media Network]
A source in the Anti-Terrorism Service in Anbar says Iraqi forces broke through to the Technical Institute in Saqlawiya, 22 km (14 miles) north of Falluja, killing many Daesh fighterss, and they are clearing the buildings in and around the Institute from booby-traps. [Al-Mada]
The PMFs say they liberated the Al-Fuhoud area in Saqlawiya, killing 10 Daesh fighters, and defused several booby-trapped houses near the Technical Institute. They also say they stopped a Daesh attack on Albu Jassem village northeast of Falluja and confiscated their weapons and equipment. [Iraqi Media Network]
The director of Falluja hospital says 9 people were killed, including a child and 2 women, and 12 injured, including 4 children and 3 women, in the Iraqi forces bombing on Falluja. [Rudaw]
Daesh says it brought down an Iraqi helicopter in north Falluja. [A3maq]
A video of the PMFs blowing up an attacking truck bomb in Falluja. [YouTube]
Ramadi
A source in Anbar Operations Command says the IAF dropped pamphlets on Ramadi asking people to leave the city before the Iraqi forces enter in the coming hours. [Al-Maalomah]
A source in Anbar Operations Command says reinforcements from the Iraqi Golden Division arrived in Humaira south of Ramadi, preparing to break through to the southern parts of the city. [Al-Maalomah]
The Deputy Commander of the Golden Division says its Anti-Explosives Unit disassembled booby traps in 50 houses in Al-Tash, south of Ramadi. [Iraqi Media Network]
The commander of the tribal fighters in Anbar says Iraqi forces are clearing Albu Aitha, 20 km (12½ miles) north of Ramadi, and advancing towards the city, killing dozens of Daesh fighters as they go. [Al-Mada]
Iraqi Federal Police commander says an Iraqi sniper killed 5 Daesh snipers, including 3 hiding in a mosque, in Hsaiba east of Ramadi. He also says Iraqi forces arrested a local Daesh member, destroyed a truck used for Daesh supplies, and disassembled booby traps in 3 houses and a school. [Al-Mada]
Elsewhere in Anbar
Daesh publishes photos of the graduation ceremony in one of its training camps in Anbar. [Come to Success]
SALAHUDDIN
A security source says Iraqi forces are gathering on the outskirts of Siniya preparing to break through. The source also says Iraqi forces shelled Siniya with heavy artillery. [Al-Maalomah]
A security source says PMFs shelled a Daesh vehicle near the eastern gate of the Baiji refinery, killing 5 men and destroying their vehicle. [Al-Maalomah]
A security source says Iraqi forces killed 5 Daesh terrorists trying to sneak into Tikrit from the west, and destroyed their vehicle. [Al-Maalomah]
One of the criminals who participated in the Speicher massacre says he killed 60 cadets that day. He is from a Shia family but joined radical groups starting in the mid-1990s. He says he returned to Basra after committing the crime but was caught by the security force there. [Al-Mada]
DaeshDaily comment. During the 1990s Saddam kept an eye on the takfiri groups in Baghdad and in Sunni areas but he gave them a lot of freedom in Shia areas. Takfiri are Salafis of the Sunni sect who hold that all who don’t follow their interpretation, Muslims and non-Muslims, are not believers and should be killed. Their cult has been the inspiration for jihadist groups, Daesh and Al-Qaeda included.
Takfiri mosques were established even in the Shia heartland in Kerbala and Najaf under the protection of Saddam’s faith campaign. They started to get conversions from young men and women from Shia families, and some were sent outside Iraq for further radical training. These people became more valuable after 2003 when AQI announced itself officially in Iraq. With their Shia names and contacts they were able to infiltrate Shia communities and deceive the security agencies. They provided AQI, and later Daesh, with information and hideouts and participated in hundreds of terrorist attacks on Shia civilians in Baghdad and southern Iraq.
Daesh paraded 4 Sunni imams through Shirqat on the back of a truck, after accusing them of being anti-Daesh. The imams were forced to chant for Daesh and raise its flag. [YouTube]
A security source says an Iraqi army captain was killed and 2 soldiers injured in a mortar attack on Mtaibija south of Tikrit. [Al-Gharbiya]
BAGHDAD
Security sources report a rash of deadly incidents.
- Al-Suqour Intelligence Cell arrests a Daesh terrorist responsible for many car bomb attacks, including the May attack in Karrada that killed Ammar Al-Shahbander, the Swedish-Iraqi journalist, and 15 other people. [Al-Maalomah]
- A suicide bomber attacked Iraqi forces in Tarmiya in north Baghdad, killing 3 soldiers and injuring 8. Other sources say 6 soldiers were killed and 15 injured. [PUK Media] [Rudaw]
- A civilian was killed and 8 injured in an IED explosion near a popular market in Husseiniya in north Baghdad. [Iraq Press]
- An IED exploded in Taji in north Baghdad, killing 2 people and injuring 7. [Iraq Press] The police found 3 unknown dead bodies in Taji. [Al-Baghdadia]
- A parked car bomb exploded in Baghdad Al-Jadida in east Baghdad killing 15 civilians and injuring 43. [Al-Mada] A video of the car bomb in Baghdad Al-Jadida. [YouTube]
- A civilian was killed and 5 injured in an IED explosion in Habibiya in Sadr City, in east Baghdad. [Iraq Press]
- A civilian was killed and 5 injured in an IED explosion in Mashtal in east Baghdad. [Al-Gharbiya]
- A car bomb exploded in a residential area in Zafaraniya in south Baghdad killing 2 civilians and injuring 10. [Al-Mada]
- A civilian was killed and 6 injured in an IED explosion in Ghazaliya in west Baghdad. [Al-Baghdadia]
The Chairman of the Security and Defense Committee in the Iraqi Parliament says Coalition pilots from Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Jordan and Qatar are targeting Iraqi forces in coordination with Daesh. Several PMF commanders have said the Coalition is hindering the Iraqi forces’ advances. [Al-Mada]
DaeshDaily comment. Some Shia politicians and PMF commanders previously accused American pilots of dropping supplies to and supporting Daesh. This is another version of the same lie. No excuses for the Chairman, however.
The rapporteur of the of Security and Defense Committee in the Iraqi Parliament, a Kurdish MP, says that according to the agreement between the Iraqi government and the US, the F-16s will fly in military missions only with a Kurdish pilot. [Rudaw]
DIYALA
A Diyala investigative judge says a member of the security checkpoint in Khan Bani Saad admitted he helped the car bomb to enter the area. The suspect says Daesh threatened to kill him and his family if he didn’t cooperate. The judge also says the Khan Bani Saad police chief admitted he got information about Daesh’s intentions to attack the city with a car bomb days before the incident.
DaeshDaily comment. The obvious fact, despite all the checkpoints suffocating the citizens’ movements, is that Daesh is still able to hit anywhere with car bombs and IEDs. They could not do that without support from members of the security forces, motivated by corruption or ideological reasons.
A car bomb parked in a popular market in Mandali east of Baquba exploded, killing 3 civilians and injuring 7 by preliminary count. [Rudaw]
A Sunni MP from Diyala warns of sectarian tensions in the governorate after Daesh’s recent attacks in Khan Bani Saad, Hibhib and Al-Hadid. [Al-Maalomah]
A security source says a roadside IED exploded near a village 44 km (27 miles) east of Baquba, injuring one civilian. [Al-Gharbiya]
NINEWA
A Kurdish official says the Peshmerga, supported by Coalition airpower, stopped a Daesh attack from three sides on their locations in Bashiqa, destroying 2 vehicles. [Iraq Press] A Kurdish field commander says 15 Daesh attacked the Kurdish forces in Bashiqa, 22 km (13½ miles) northwest of Mosul, but the Kurdish forces supported by the Coalition airpower foiled the attack and killed most of the attackers. [Bass News]
A Kurdish official says the Coalition bombed Daesh locations in 3 areas west of Mosul, killing 22 terrorists. [Bass News]
A local source says Daesh executed 4 civilians in Mosul, accusing them of “treason”. [Bass News]
Local sources say Daesh executed another young man in Mosul by throwing him from the top of a building for not following Daesh instructions. [Al-Mada]
Kata’eb Al-Mosul says their fighters shot at a Daesh vehicle on Dirtaj Road, killing the mens inside it. [The KM Facebook page]
The Yazidi Association in Efrin in says the KDP is digging a trench between Sinjar and the Kurdish areas in Syria and accuses the KDP of attempting to isolate the Yazidis. [Hawar News]
A Christian Iraqi from Mosul who escaped Daesh prison tells his story and says the leader of the group abducting him was the son of Saddam’s deputy, Izzat Al-Douri. (video) [Al-Hurra TV]
Daesh publishes a video about Eid in Mosul and Tal Afar. [Come to Success] [Come to Success]
OTHER GOVERNORATES
A security source says an American drone fell near the Muthanna cement factory in the Samawa desert. (Photos) [Al-Maalomah]
REPORTS FROM SYRIA
The YPG says their troops enclosed Daesh completely in areas in south and east Hasaka. They also say they foiled several Daesh efforts to break the siege, including a car bomb attack. [Hawar News]
A video of the Kurdish forces advancing in Hasaka. [Xendan]
Daesh says one of its suicide bombers attacked the Kurdish forces in Hasaka. [Come to Success]
DaeshDaily comment. The surprising recent gains by the YPG against Daesh around Hasaka are intriguing. This may have something to do with implied cooperation between the Syrian government and the Kurds, but we also observe that Daesh seems less active lately in Syria.
A Kurdish military source says a Daesh suicide bomber on a motorcycle attacked a Kurdish security barrier 5 km (3 miles) southwest of Tal Abyad, killing one Kurdish fighter and injuring 2. [Bass News]
Kurdish forces say they captured a village and several hills in south Kobane, killing a Daesh fighter. [Bass News]
Daesh’s top religious “thinker,” the Bahraini Turkey Binali, appears in Eid prayers in Raqqa. [All4Syria]
REPORTS FROM OTHER MIDDLE EAST/NORTH AFRICAN COUNTRIES
Turkey. Turkey’s Peoples’ Democratic Party says the negligence of Turkish security forces contributed to the deadly terrorist attack in Suruc, just north of Kobane, Syria. [Xendan]
The Turkish PM says the police identified a suspect linked to the Suruc attack. [Xendan]
Hawar News publishes the names of 29 people killed in the Suruc attack. [Hawar]
Saudi Arabia. Daesh publishes the last audio message of one of its Saudi suicide bombers. [Come to Success]
Libya. A source in Misrata military council says his troops clashed with Daesh terrorists trying to sneak into areas between Sirte and Misrata. [Al-Wasat]
Morocco. The Morocco MoI says the security forces arrested 8 Daesh terrorists in 4 Moroccan cities who were planning to execute terrorist activities. The MoI says the men were in direct contact with Daesh leaders and have been trained in Daesh camps and given foreign passports in order to establish a task force in Morocco. [Al-Mesryoon]
SOCIAL MEDIA SOURCES
Facebook Page of the Day
Iraqi Special Forces.
Daesh publishes a video about their electronic jihad. [YouTube]
Daesh Twitter Accounts of the Day
https://twitter.com/faluja_iraq
https://twitter.com/VBB9Msqr8MWJX4y
https://twitter.com/O_m_e_r_16
