July 28, 2015
Iraqi Soldiers after a suicide attack in Ramadi
Daesh Daily
July 28, 2015
REPORTS FROM IRAQ
ANBAR
Falluja
The Commander of the local PMF in Qarma says Iraqi forces launched a major operation on the Albu Khalifa area, killing 14 Daesh terrorists including 12 foreigners. [Al-Maalomah]
A PMF commander says Daesh transformed entire neighborhoods in Saqlawiya to “ticking bombs,” booby-trapping everything including bread. [Al-Sumaria]
A local PMF commander says snipers from his unit sneaked into Falluja and killed Daesh’s “minister of finance,” a local terrorist responsible for hanging an Iraqi soldier from Falluja Bridge. [Al-Maalomah]
A medical source in Falluja says 4 people were killed, including a child, and 16 injured, including 2 women and 3 children, in Iraqi forces’ bombing of Falluja. [Rudaw]
Ramadi
A member of Anbar GC says Iraqi forces supported by Coalition airpower implemented a large military operation in several areas east of Ramadi, killing 44 Daesh fighters. [BasNews] An Anbar tribal leader says Iraqi forces supported by Coalition airpower captured 4 areas south of Ramadi, close to Anbar University, killing dozens of Daesh fighters. He says the security forces are clearing the areas now of IEDs and booby-trapped houses. [BasNews]
A local PMF commander in Anbar says Ramadi will be liberated in the coming days and Daesh terrorists are escaping after the Iraqi forces broke them in the University battle. [Al-Mada]
The Chairman of the Khaldiya subdistrict council says Iraqi forces supported by the IAA and Coalition airpower captured the Albu Dhiab area north of Ramadi, killing 30 Daesh terrorists. [Al-Sumaria] A security source says the IAA bombed a Daesh leader’s funeral in Albu Dhiab, killing 9 more. [ Al-Baghdadia]
A source for the Anti-Terrorism Service, which includes several Army components, says Iraq Army units are now holding the ground in Tash 1st and 2nd south of Ramadi after capturing the area. [Al-Sumaria]
Anbar Operations Command destroyed 115 IEDs, a car bomb and 8 Daesh hideouts in Albu Aitha east of Ramadi. The IWMC also says the Coalition destroyed a Daesh construction shovel, a car bomb and 12 hideouts in the same area. [IWMC Report]
A security source says Iraqi forces stopped a Daesh suicide truck bomb attack in Hsaiba and killed the suicide bomber. He also says Iraqi forces killed 14 Daesh fighters in their advance east of Ramadi. [Al-Sumaria]
Photos of Iraqi soldiers after a car bomb explosion in Ramadi. [Facebook] [Facebook] [Facebook]
Iraqi Federal Police says Iraqi forces, who regained control of the stadium area yesterday, have started to clear the area of IEDs. [Erem News]
Elsewhere in Anbar
A member of Anbar GC says most of the families trapped in Bzaibiz crossway want to go to Kurdistan. He asks Baghdad Operations Command to open the crossway for them and allow them to enter Baghdad. He says BOC only allows people with severe health cases to enter. [Al-Sumaria]
A security source says the IAF bombed a Daesh convoy heading from Rutba to Hit, killing 30 and injuring 25. [Al-Baghdadia]
SALAHUDDIN
A security source says 3 car bombs exploded in Baiji center targeting an Iraqi Joint Force, killing 11 soldiers and injuring 15. [Al-Sumaria]
A local source in Kirkuk says Daesh lashed 25 men in Shirqat for shaving their beards. [Al-Sumaria]
Salahuddin Operations Command killed 10 terrorists in Albu Jwary and defused 6 booby-trapped houses and 19 IEDs. [IWMC Report]
The Badr militia commander meets with Albu Ajeel tribal leader in Tikrit and agrees to let the displaced families return to their houses in Albu Ajeel in Tikrit. Badr will form a PMF unit to protect the area.
DaeshDaily comment. Many southern tribes accuse Albu Ajeel of committing the Speicher massacre.
A Turkmen MP asks the government to establish a military operations command for the Tuz area, after the suicide attack last week. He says Turkmen Iraqis are paying for the dispute between Baghdad and Erbil, which led to security confusion in Tuz. [Al-Ghad]
BAGHDAD
The Iraqi Parliament issues a statement condemning Turkey’s bombing of Iraqi villages and violation of Iraqi airspace. [Al-Maalomah] Iraqi Council of Ministers also issued statement calling the Turkish attack “a dangerous escalation and an assault on Iraqi sovereignty”. [Al-Maalomah] A Kurdish MP in the Iraqi Parliament says the Turkish bombing aims at putting Daesh and the PKK at the same terrorism level. He says Erdogan’s party broke the truce with PKK that saved a lot of blood. [Al-Maalomah]
DaeshDaily comment. The posturing will continue as long as presumed political advantage can be gained from it.
A news-making explanation from the spokesman for Prime Minister Abadi: He refutes the reports about the participation of Arab nations in the bombing against Daesh in Iraq. He says no Arab airpower has ever participated in any anti-Daesh airstrike in Iraq. He also says the Coalition launches airstrikes after getting initial approvals from Iraq and after getting information from Iraqi intelligence sources. [Al-Mada]
DaeshDaily comment. When the airpower coalition was announced in Washington, the participation of Arab states was the focus. If the PM’s spokesman has it right, all the Coalition airstrikes in Iraq are by US and other western aircraft; all the Arab-nation airstrikes are confined to Syria. The unspoken part of this dialogue is that some Shia leaders don’t have confidence that all the Sunni Arab governments are on Iraq’s side, due to sectarian motives.
The Iraqi government discusses minimizing the numbers of the security personnel allocated for Iraqi officials. There are 18 military regiments allocated for just the Prime Minister, President, and parliament Speaker and their deputies. [Al-Mada] An Iraqi MP says Iraqi officials’ security guards should be taken to the front lines to fight if they want to keep receiving their salaries. [Iraq Press]
DaeshDaily Comment: Reform should be encouraged. The number of security personnel allocated to Iraqi officials is incredible. In addition to the three top leaders and their offices, there are 29 ministers, 22 chairmen of independent commissions, 328 MPs, 18 governors, and thousands of military and police commanders, general directors, local officials, etc., not to mention former office-holders. The number of police and army personnel in these guard units is in the tens of thousands, all paid by the Iraqi budget. Most are recruited based on their family or political ties, which means there are fewer positions for those who want to serve in real military units that can defend the country. It’s a form of corruption, the more so for positions assigned to “ghost soldiers” whose salaries are paid to others. This is not to say the officials don’t need security, because there is a constant risk of being attacked.
The MoD says the Coalition launched airstrikes on Daesh locations in Anbar and Mosul, destroying a big building used by the terrorists in Ramadi and a car bomb factory in Mosul. [Al-Baghdadia]
A Shia MP says if Turkey’s President Erdogan is serious about fighting Daesh he should disassemble Turkey’s network that recruits terrorists and facilitates their movement in the region. [Al-Maalomah]
The Coalition implemented 19 sorties on different operation sectors, killing 53 terrorists and destroying 5 vehicles, a construction shovel, 45 locations and hideouts, and 10 tunnels. [IWMC Report]
According to security sources:
- A civilian was killed and 5 injured in an IED explosion near a popular market in Shula in northwest Baghdad. [Al-Baghdadia]
- A sticker IED exploded under the car of an MoI employee in Hurriya in north Baghdad, killing him instantly. [Al-Gharbiya]
- A Ministry of Higher Education employee was killed when unknown armed men opened fire on his car as he drove on the Al-Qanat highway in east Baghdad. [Iraq Press]
- A civilian was killed and 3 injured in an IED explosion in Dora in south Baghdad. [Al-Gharbiya]
- An IED exploded in Nahrawan in south Baghdad, killing one civilian and injuring 9. [Al-Gharbiya]
- A civilian was killed and 6 injured in an IED explosion in Sheik Omar in downtown Baghdad. [Al-Gharbiya]
Daesh claims responsibility for the attack in the Al-Sham area in north Baghdad yesterday. [Dump]
An Iraqi Army force captured a suicide bomber trying to target them in Yousifiya in south Baghdad. [8th Day]
A report about the importance of the thermo cameras in monitoring the terrorist activities in Yousifiya (video). [Al-Sumaria]
DIYALA
The spokesman of the Iraqi Ministry of Electricity says armed men in Khanaqin planted IEDs near power supply lines running to Baghdad. One of the IEDs exploded, killing a police officer accompanying the Ministry’s maintenance unit. [Al-Sumaria]
The security committee in Diyala GC decided all soccer tournaments must obtain a security approval. The decision came after 3 IED explosions on a soccer field during a popular tournament in Abu Saida yesterday. [Al-Sumaria] As we reported yesterday, seven were killed and seven injured in these explosions.
An MP from Diyala says the security situation is getting worse in Diyala and the militias are kidnapping people. He says 25 were kidnapped during the last 3 days. [Rudaw]
KIRKUK
A local source in Kirkuk says Daesh executed 6 brothers publicly and hung their bodies on electricity poles, because they were trying to leave Hawija. [Al-Sumaria]
A local source in Kirkuk says Daesh beheaded a school teacher publicly in Al-Abbasi subdistrict in Hawija for an unknown reason. [Al-Sumaria]
A security source says Daesh’s new wali (governor) of Kirkuk was killed in a Coalition airstrike on his hideout in Zab subdistrict west of Kirkuk. [Iraq Press]
Daesh lashes a man for adultery in Kirkuk. [Makalem]
NINEWA
A Peshmerga source says the Coalition launched airstrikes on Daesh in west Dijla, killing many of them and destroying their locations. Another source says the Coalition bombed Daesh near Bashiqa killing 10 and injuring many others. [BasNews]
A KDP official says Daesh established cannabis farms in Hammam Al-Alil and Mahalibya south of Mosul. He says these farms were kept secret but recent disputes between Daesh leaders in Mosul uncovered the information. [Al-Sumaria]
The IAA destroyed part of a Daesh oil pipeline west of Mosul. [IWMC Report]
Dash publishes photos of more public beheadings in Ninewa. [Minbar Al-Ansar]
Daesh publishes a video of the results of the Coalition bombing on Wadi Al-Hajar in Mosul. [A3maq]
OTHER GOVERNORATES
Kurdistan
An eyewitness says Turkish jets bombed PKK locations near Zakho in far northern Dahuk. He says the bombing targeted several locations and lasted about an hour. [Al-Sumaria]
REPORTS FROM SYRIA
Burkan Al-Furat soldiers, supported by Coalition airpower, captured Sarrin. (Burkan Al-Furat combines YPG and Free Syrian Army units.) This means Daesh has now been kicked out of the entire Kobane district. [Rudaw] The YPG says they killed 80 Daesh terrorists in Sarrin and confiscated 10 vehicles, 10 car bombs, 3 trucks loaded with weapons, and 60 motorcycles. However, 9 Kurdish fighters were killed in the battles. [BasNews]
YPG soldiers raised their flags on Najm historic castle 2 km west of Sarrin, on the road to Aleppo. [Hawar]
The YPG also claims to have liberated 95% of Hasaka and are promising to liberate the rest in the coming hours. [Welati]
The spokesman of the YPG refutes reports that Syrian Kurdish fighters killed 2 policemen in Turkey. He says the Turkish borders on their side were the safest for Turkey, while Daesh terrorists crossed the Turkish border from Turkey and attacked them. He also says they have nothing to do with the clashes inside Turkey lands. [Hawar]
DaeshDaily comment. This is a critical moment for the YPG and its political party, the PYD. The Kurds are having notable military success against Daesh, and the alliance with the Free Syrian Army could be significant for both. Turkey’s intervention against Daesh further changes the military equation in northern Syria. However, the PYD/YPG relationship with the PKK is now a much bigger liability due to PKK’s renewed hostilities with Turkey, and this could put its recent gains at risk.
Daesh publishes photos of shelling the Syrian army in Aleppo. [Dump ]
Daesh checkpoints in Tadmur. [Dump] And results of the bombing on Tadmur. [Makalem]
REPORTS FROM TURKEY
An unknown man shot an injured Turkish soldier in Hakkari Province in southeast Turkey. [Anadolu]
REPORTS FROM OTHER MIDDLE EAST/NORTH AFRICAN COUNTRIES
Daesh publishes photos of a health clinic in Aden in Yemen, claiming it’s one of theirs. [Makelem]
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Acronyms
| AHH | Asa’eb Ahl Al-Haq |
| COMSEC | Council of Ministers Secretariat |
| GC | Governorate (Provincial) Council |
| GoI | Government of Iraq |
| FSA | Free Syrian Army |
| IAA | Iraqi Army Aviation |
| IAF | Iraqi Air Force |
| IED | Improvised Explosive Devise |
| IFP | Iraqi Federal Police |
| IKR | Iraqi Kurdistan Region |
| IP | Iraqi Parliament (Council Of Representatives) |
| 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) |
