June 22, 2016
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Today’s Major Developments
IRAQI FORCES EXTEND CONTROL ACROSS NORTH FALLUJA.
FALLUJA DISPLACEMENT ESTIMATED AT OVER 70,000 PEOPLE IS CAUSING ANXIETY.
FALLUJA OFFICIAL ALLEGES DAESH LEADERS WERE RELEASED FROM PRISON BY BRIBES.
IRAQI FORCES MOVE TOWARD SHIRQAT FROM THE SOUTH.
ERBIL COURT SENTENCES 12 TO DEATH OR LIFE IN PRISON FOR DEADLY 2014 BOMBING.
COALITION SPOKESMAN OPTIMISTIC ABOUT MANBIJ BUT EXPECTS BIG FIGHT.
REPORTS FROM IRAQ
NATIONAL NEWS
The Combined Joint Task Force says the Coalition conducted 17 airstrikes on Daesh in Iraq—ten in Ninewa, around Mosul (4), Qayara (3), Kasik (2), and Tal Afar (1); five in Anbar, around Falluja (3) and Ramadi (2); and two near Baiji. [CJTF]
BAGHDAD
Security-related incidents reported
Center (Rusafa, Karkh, Karrada, etc.)
An MoI source says two people were killed and five wounded when an IED exploded in the Sheikh Omar area. [Mada]
North (Tarmiya, Taji, etc.)
A security source says four civilians were wounded when a roadside IED exploded in the Hamamiyat area in Taji. [Ghad]
An MoI source says a policeman was killed and four wounded when an IED exploded on their vehicle in Meshahda in Tarmiya. [Mada]
An MoI source says one person was killed and eight wounded when an IED exploded near a market in Husseiniya. [Mada]
Iraqi Army 59th brigade cleared a road in the Bani Zaid area, defusing 26 IEDs. [BOC Facebook Page]
Northeast (Adhamiya, etc.)
An MoI source says one person was killed and five wounded when an IED exploded near a commercial area in Suleikh. [Mada]
East (Sadr City, New Baghdad, etc.)
An MoI source says a shop owner was killed and his two sons wounded when a sticky IED exploded under their vehicle in Ameen. [Mada]
An Iraqi journalist survived an assassination attempt when unknown armed men shot at him in Mashtal. [PUKMedia]
Southeast (Mada’in, etc.)
A security source says three civilians were wounded by an IED explosion in Zafaraniya. [Sumaria]
South (Dora, Mahmudiya)
An MoI source says armed men broke into a house in Arab Jubour and killed an Iraqi Army soldier and two of his brothers, who are tribal PMF fighters. [Mada]
The MoD says Iraqi forces found an ammunition cache in a house in Dora. [Ghad]
Southwest (Rasheed)
Daesh claimed responsibility for the suicide attack on the checkpoint in the Suwaib area and says twenty-five people were killed or wounded in the attack. [JustPaste]
Total Baghdad incidents reported: 12 (Includes only incidents reported)
ANBAR
Falluja
The Chairman of the Anbar Provincial Council says there are 18,000 displaced families from Falluja and they are in a dire situation. He asks international organizations for help. [Sumaria]
Prime Minister Abadi’s spokesman also asks international organizations to help an estimated 70,000 displaced people from Falluja. [Sumaria]
DaeshDaily comment. Watch out! This could be where the pro-Daesh political counter-attack starts. The displaced families and the inadequate services for displaced people are already a major news story. All the displacement from other major battles has been treated as an unfortunate consequence of the conflict, but the displaced from Falluja will be used by sectarian media to paint the government as insensitive to Sunnis. A lot of those people sitting under the desert sun for lack of tents need to be moved back home as fast as possible, not just treated as sympathetic subjects for government statements.
The Chaldean Patriarch says his church delivered $50,000 in urgent humanitarian assistance to displaced families from Falluja. [Sumaria]
Falluja city. U.S. Army Col. Christopher Garver, the Baghdad-based spokesman for the coalition, said on Tuesday that only a third of Fallujah has been “cleared” of Daesh. He also says that other parts of the city are “contested,” with clashes underway between Iraqi security forces and Daesh terrorists. Most of the cleared area is in the south of the city. “Clearing operations continue outward from the city center,” Garver added. [Baghdadia]
DaeshDaily comment. This cautious statement is hard to evaluate, and may depend on the definition of “cleared,” but the individual battle reports show Iraqi forces winning in every part of the city and Daesh fighters retreating. The battle reports today come mainly from the north of the city, suggesting that the battle is largely over in southern and central parts of the city.
Baghdad Operations Command issued a statement saying its troops liberated the Askari neighborhood in northeast Falluja. [Ghad]
The PMFs found a 3 km (2 mile) long Daesh tunnel that extends from Askari to the Jordanian Hospital. [Harbi]
A video of a Daesh tunnel in Falluja [Sumaria]
Rapid Intervention units cleared the Mukhtar and Jeghaifi Thaniya areas in north Falluja, killing 7 terrorists, defusing 4 booby-trapped houses and 197 IEDS, and destroying a vehicle bomb and a machine gun-mounted vehicle. [BOC Facebook Page]
The MoD says the IAA destroyed Daesh hideouts in several houses in the Jolan neighborhood in northwest Falluja in addition to a vehicle and a motorcycle. The IAA also destroyed a Daesh hideout in a house in the Jeghaifi area in north Falluja. [Harbi] The IWMC says an IAA CH4 drone destroyed a Daesh hideout and a vehicle in Jolan. [Baghdadia]
The IWMC says Daesh is burning down houses and public buildings in Jolan. [Sumaria]
The IFP says its troops crossed the Old Bridge in Falluja and destroyed 9 Daesh targets, killing 4 terrorists. It also says its troops are advancing toward the Rusafa and Iskan areas. [Ghad]
The IWMC says the IFP destroyed 4 Daesh vehicle bombs and killed 6 Daesh terrorists, including a sniper, in Falluja city. [Ghad]
The MoI spokesman says Iraqi forces captured several areas in Falluja city, killing 44 terrorists. [SANA]
Photos of Daesh documents found in Falluja. The documents contain names and salaries of Daesh terrorists in the city. According to the documents, each terrorist gets $600 dollars per month. [Ghad]
Security forces found another Daesh prison in Falluja City. [Etejah]
A Security source says Counter Terrorism troops found twelve beheaded bodies in the Dhubat Thaniya area in Falluja city. The source also says Counter Terrorism troops found the body of the dead Daesh media official in the same area. [Buratha]
A tribal PMF commander says 600 people were released from Daesh prisons in Falluja, and Daesh executed 150 more. [Mada]
South. The Chairman of the Ameriyat Al-Falluja subdistrict council says several Daesh leaders and members were released from prisons in Ameriyat Al-Falluja in exchange for large amounts of money. [Maalomah]
In a separate story, the Minister of Planning, Salman Al-Jumaili, issued a statement saying he is suing media outlets that claimed he helped to release captured Daesh terrorists from his tribe. [Mada]
DaeshDaily comment. Some media outlets said the Minister, originally from Falluja, intervened to get the Daesh emir of Qarma, Raff’ Al-Mishhen Al-Jumaili, released.
The Anbar Operations Commander says Iraqi forces liberated the Ajarbiya area south of Falluja, destroying 3 vehicle bombs. [Sumaria]
The Anbar Operations Command says Iraqi Army 8th division, supported by the IAA, started the second stage of the liberation of the Ahssi area in Ameriyat Al-Falluja, and killed a group of terrorists, including a sniper. [Baghdadia]
Iraqi Army 14th division troops killed 5 terrorists and wounded 1, and destroyed a Daesh guesthouse southeast of Falluja. Coalition warplanes destroyed a Daesh hideout, killing 3 terrorists. [BOC Facebook Page]
Iraqi Army 6th division destroyed 5 IEDs in 3 areas southeast of Falluja. [BOC Facebook Page]
East. Iraqi forces cleared the highway between Baghdad and Falluja, destroying 201 IEDs. Iraqi forces also found 2 IED factories in the area. [BOC Facebook Page]
A tribal PMF commander says all the displaced families from Qarma will return to their houses in July. [Mada]
North. The PMF Press says Daesh blew up the Azraqiya Bridge, northwest of Falluja, with a vehicle bomb. [AIN]
A Kata’eb Hezbollah source says Iraqi forces attacked Daesh in several areas north of Falluja, killing or wounding several terrorists. [Harbi]
Ramadi
The IWMC says Iraqi Sukhois destroyed 5 Daesh hideouts, 3 vehicles, and 2 motorcycles, killing or wounding many Daesh terrorists in Jazeera Khaldiya. [Mada]
The Anbar Operations commander says Iraqi forces killed more than 250 Daesh terrorists and destroyed several vehicle bombs in the campaign in areas northwest of Ramadi. [Maalomah]
The Anbar Operations commander had said that Coalition warplanes killed 15 Daesh terrorists and destroyed 2 machine gun-mounted vehicles during the liberation operations in the Zangoura area. [Sumaria]
The Anbar Police commander says Iraqi forces cleared the Zangoura area, 18 km (11 miles) northwest of Ramadi, killing “tens” of terrorists and destroying 2 vehicle bombs. He says Iraqi forces have started to defuse IEDs and booby-trapped houses in order to allow displaced families to return. [Mada]
DaeshDaily comment. They just started?
Daesh says it shelled “Iraqi Army and PMFs” in Jamiya in Ramadi with 3 mortars. [JustPaste]
Hit/Haditha
The IWMC says Coalition warplanes killed the Daesh emir of the Dolab area and 3 of his associates. Jazeera Operations Command troops killed 8 terrorists and destroyed a truck in the same area. [Ghad]
Rutba/Western Anbar
A security source says Daesh shelled Rutba with 7 mortars, wounding two civilians. [Sumaria]
SALAHUDDIN
Shirqat
A PMF spokesman says Iraqi Army and PMFs are rapidly advancing in areas south of Shirqat. Daesh is forcing civilians to join its ranks in Shirqat after many of its terrorists fled the city. He [Maalomah]
The IWMC says Iraqi forces broke into Haj Ali village south of Shirqat and raised the Iraqi flag over its buildings. [Buratha]
DaeshDaily comment. The Haj Ali we usually report about is east of Qayara, well north of Shirqat. We still don’t know if this is a village with same name or if the IWMC made a typo.
The Mayor of Shirqat says Daesh arrested several young men in the city, looking for the Masked Man who has killed several Daesh commanders so far. [Mawazin]
Daesh publishes photos of “normal life” in Al-Zab city east of Shirqat. [JustPaste]
Baiji
Relating to the movement of troops toward Shirqat. the IWMC says Iraqi forces started military operations south of Shirqat, killing 11 Daesh terrorists and destroying a vehicle. It also says the IAA destroyed a Daesh house, a booby-trapped fuel station, and a vehicle in the Muhammad Al-Musa area. It also says Iraqi forces completely captured the area. [Baghdadia]
The IFP commander says his troops stopped a Daesh attack in the Siniya area, destroying 2 Humvee bombs and an armored construction shovel and killing 6 terrorists. [Ghad]
The IWMC says Iraqi forces destroyed a Daesh vehicle bomb and a machine gun-mounted vehicle in the Makhoul Mountains area. [Baghdadia]
Daesh issues a video of a burned Abrams tank near the Asmeda Bridge north of Baiji. [A3maq]
Tikrit
A Salahuddin police source says an IED exploded on a PMF convoy in the Albu Khadu area, south of Al-Daur, killing two fighters and wounding three. [Mada]
Daesh says it destroyed 2 PMFs cars with 2 IEDs in the Jalam area near Al-Daur, killing eight fighters, including an officer, and wounding two. [JustPaste]
A security source says Daesh blew up 3 electricity towers north of Al-Daur, cutting off electricity to Al-Alam District. [Ghad]
Daesh says it destroyed 3 electricity towers in the Hafayer area. [JustPaste]
A security source says Coalition warplanes bombed Daesh locations near Allas oilfield, killing 5 terrorists. [AfriGate]
Tooz
The Dijla Operations commander says Iraqi forces fought heavy battles with Daesh in the Zarqa area, between Salahuddin and Diyala. He says Daesh attacked the area with many suicide terrorists. He says Iraqi forces killed 25 Daesh terrorists and destroyed 2 vehicle bombs after 4 hours of battles. [Sumaria]
A security source says Daesh launched a major attack on the Zarqa area and captured several military positions, killing four PMF fighters and wounding fourteen. The source says 2 Daesh terrorists were killed and 2 machine gun-mounted vehicles were destroyed. The source says Iraqi forces cut off the road between Tikrit and Kirkuk and military reinforcements were sent to the area. [Mada]
A local source says unknown armed men established a checkpoint near Amerli, kidnapped eight civilians, and killed three of them. [Ghad]
DIYALA
Baquba
A local police source says the police captured a suicide terrorist who was trying to attack a Shia mosque in Baquba city. [Maalomah]
Muqdadiya/Abu Saida
A local source says two people were wounded when mortar shells fell on houses near Mukhaisa village. [Sumaria]
A Sunni MP from Diyala warns from attempts to change the demography of Mukhaisa village. [Sumaria]
DaeshDaily comment. The village is a launch pad for Daesh attacks on civilians and security forces in the area. The honorable MP forgets to mention that Sunni and Shia civilians and security personnel have been getting killed in such attacks in this area for a long time now. Many Daesh attacks target Sunni PMF fighters. Even now, some political leaders can’t get past their own sectarian rhetoric.
Northern Diyala
A local source says unknown armed men shot and killed the son of a mukhtar in a village east of Qara Tapa. [Sumaria]
A local source says two children were wounded by mortar shells that fell on a residential area in Saadiya. [Sumaria]
KIRKUK
Kirkuk
A security source says unknown armed men shot and killed a lawyer in south Kirkuk. [Mada]
Hawija
Daesh publishes photos of “normal life” in Mahouz village in Hawija district. [JustPaste]
NINEWA
The former Governor of Ninewa, Atheel Nujaifi, says that what is best for Ninewa is to be part of a strategic region that has good relationships with the KRG as part of Federal Iraq. [Xendan]
DaeshDaily comment. This has been Nujaifi’s game since the beginning. He is a separatist. He wants a Ninewa region, perhaps under Turkish protection, that leaves Iraq’s authority out. And regardless of whether he likes Daesh or not, Daesh enabled his recent maneuvering and made his plan more achievable. The biggest cause of concern about the Mosul liberation campaign is not Daesh; it’s the very real risk that Iraq’s victory will be stolen.
The UN Humanitarian Coordinator for Iraq, Lise Grande, says the biggest humanitarian crisis in the world will happen this year, with the start of the Mosul liberation operations. [Anadolu]
Mosul
Kata’eb Al-Mosul says its fighters shot at a Daesh pickup truck in south Mosul, killing or wounding the 4 terrorists inside. [KM Facebook Page]
An MP from Ninewa, Ahmed Al-Jubouri, who also leads of an armed group, says people of Mosul are awaiting the start of the Ninewa liberation operations in order to revolt against Daesh. He also says some of his fighters sneaked into Mosul city to carry out assassinations against Daesh terrorists. [Ghad]
A local source says Daesh publically executed 4 of its commanders after accusing them of cowardice because they refused to go to Shirqat. [Sumaria]
Local sources say Daesh lashed 22 civilians publicly in Mosul after accusing them of not fasting during Ramadan. [Sumaria]
Makhmur/Qayara
A Ninewa Operations Command source says Coalition warplanes bombed a Daesh hideout in Albu Wawi village in Qayara, killing 10 terrorists and destroying a tunnel. [Mada]
A security source says Coalition warplanes destroyed Daesh tunnels in 2 areas in Qayara, in addition to 10 military vehicles. [BasNews]
A Ninewa Operations Command source says Iraqi forces liberated an unspecified village in Makhmur, killing 4 terrorists. [Maalomah]
The Ninewa Operations Command issued a statement saying its troops killed 3 local Daesh terrorists specializing in thermal rockets in Zanawir village northwest of Al-Nassr. [Baghdadia]
A security source says 130 families escaped Daesh controlled areas south of Mosul and arrived in Makhmur District. [Maalomah]
Iraqi Army 36th brigade shot down a Daesh recon drone in the south Ninewa military sector. [MoD Website]
Northwest (Tal Afar, Sinjar)
A Peshmerga commander says Peshmerga artillery and Coalition warplanes targeted Daesh locations in the Nawran military sector, killing 20 terrorists, including 7 snipers, and destroying 5 tunnels, 4 vehicles, and 3 ammunition storehouses. [ARA]
A Ninewa provincial council member says 8 Daesh terrorists were killed and 3 wounded when one IED they were planting exploded near Ayadhiya. [ROJ]
Daesh publishes photos of fixing roads in Tal Afar. [JustPaste]
KURDISTAN
A criminal court in Erbil sentenced 7 terrorists to death and 5 to life in prison after they were convicted of setting off the explosion in the Erbil Governorate building in November, 2014. Four people were killed and twenty-nine were wounded in that attack. [Rudaw]
A local NGO says the self-proclaimed Sunni mufti, Rafi’ Al-Rifa’i, should be taken to court because of his statements that glorified Daesh. The NGO also criticized the KRG for allowing him to stay in Erbil. [ROJ]
DaeshDaily comment. Many Daesh backers are residing now in Erbil. One wonders whether the KRG wants to use them to pressure Baghdad in future negotiations.
REPORTS FROM TURKEY
Turkish authorities say they captured 3 Daesh suspects who were planning to attack a transgender parade in Turkey. [ARA]
REPORTS FROM SYRIA
The Combined Joint Task Force says the Coalition conducted 18 airstrikes on Daesh in Syria. Twelve were around Manbij (12), the others near Raqqa (4), Mare’ (1), and Albu Kamal (1) in Deir Ez-Zor. [CJTF]
Northeast (Hasaka, Raqqa)
A Syrian military source says Syrian warplanes targeted Daesh locations in several areas west of Raqqa, destroying several vehicles and killing “tens” of terrorists. [SANA]
Twenty-five people were killed and more than fifty wounded in airstrikes on civilian areas and military positions in Raqqa. [Qasioun]
Daesh says 32 people were killed and 150 were wounded in airstrikes on Raqqa on Tuesday. Daesh also says five people were killed and several others wounded, including women and children, by an American airstrike on a residential area in Raqqa. [A3maq]
Daesh issues a video of the results of the American airstrike on a residential area. [A3maq]
DaeshDaily comment. It’s the same old propaganda theme. What Daesh wants people to believe is that the Coalition airstrikes are always by Americans and that they always attack civilians. You are expected to assume that this “residential area” was populated entirely by innocent civilians and that Daesh was not the real target.
Daesh says it captured a military barricade on the road between Ithariya and Raqqa. [A3maq] Daesh also says it destroyed a Syrian tank in the same area. [A3maq]
Syrian official sources say a Syrian Army commander was killed in battles on the road between Ithariya and Raqqa. [Qasioun]
Daesh says it captured 2 Syrian soldiers in the area and conducted a suicide attack on Syrian Army vehicles while they were retreating. [A3maq]
Daesh says it killed 3 Russian soldiers with an IED on their vehicles between Alaj and Inbaj villages on Tuesday. Daesh publishes photos of the soldiers, claiming it found them with one of the dead soldiers. [A3maq]
Daesh issues a video of the destroyed vehicle. [A3maq]
Daesh issues a video of the battles between Ithariya and Raqqa. [A3maq]
A local activist says three civilian Kurds were killed by Turkish border troops as they tried to cross illegally near the Tal Abyad area. [BasNews]
Two young shepherds were shot and wounded by the Turkish Army in the border area west of Tal Abyad. [Hawar]
Daesh issues a video of maintaining a road between Raqqa and Deir Ez-Zor. [A3maq]
Northwest (Aleppo, Idlib)
Manbij campaign. The Manbij Military Council says its troops stopped a major Daesh attack near the Nakhil and Yasta villages, 3 km (2 miles) northeast of Manbij, killing 30. [BasNews]
Daesh says it recaptured Yasta village hours after the YPG took it. [A3maq]
Manbij Military Council troops liberated Sheikh Tabash village, 1 km from Manbij, on the road to Aleppo. [Hawar]
Manbij Military Council troops launched an attack on the Manbij silos in the southeastern part of Manbij (videos). [Hawar] [Hawar]
Daesh says it stopped a YPG attack near Kilo 4 village, north of Manbij, killing five fighters. [A3maq]
The Coalition spokesman, Army Colonel Chris Garver, says the noose has been tightened around Daesh terrorists in the Syrian city of Manbij near the Turkish border but he expects Daesh to fight to the end to defend their stronghold.
“We’re around the city and we’re coming in, and we’ve cut the lines of communication into it and the noose is getting tighter around the city,” Garver says.
“We are anticipating that that’s going to be another good fight when we get in there.”
“We’ve anticipated that they (Daesh) would hold Manbij till the last, that it would be one of those places that they defended till the end and we have not seen anything that’s going to change that assessment right now,” [Qasioun]
Daesh issues photos of American warplanes over Manbij city and one of its anti-aircraft machine guns. [JustPaste]
Daesh publishes a photo of one of its snipers in the Manbij area. [JustPaste]
Daesh issues a video of a suicide attack with a vehicle bomb southeast of Manbij. [A3maq]
Other northern Aleppo stories. Daesh says it stopped an opposition group’s attack on Dudyan village, killing or wounding several fighters and destroying a bulldozer. [JustPaste]
Local sources say Daesh executed four people from Shabiran village in the Al-Bab area. It also says Daesh kidnapped more than 900 people, mostly Kurds, from different areas in Al-Bab during one week. [Hawar]
DaeshDaily comment. Unfortunately, these arrests are not being reported on a wider scale. No one knows the fate of these people.
A six-month old baby was wounded by a Turkey backed opposition group shelling on Sheikh Maqsoud. [Hawar]
The YPG says it stopped attacks on Sheikh Maqsoud, killing three opposition group fighters and wounding two. [Hawar]
The YPG says Daesh rocketed Shuyoukh, southwest of Kobane, with heavy artillery. [Hawar]
A Syrian opposition commander says opposition groups captured 3 villages near Al-Ra’i, by the Turkish border, after heavy battles with Daesh. The opposition groups had lost several villages to Daesh, including Yani Yaban and Ghazl, hours earlier. By capturing the villages, they are now 3 km (2 miles) away from Al-Ra’i. [ARA] [ARA] [Dorar]
Daesh publishes photos of its religious activities in Aleppo. [JustPaste]
Central and West (Homs, Hama, etc.)
Daesh issues a video of 2 suicide attacks on Syrian troops near Tadmur silos. [A3maq]
Daesh issues a video of executing three civilians in Homs, after accusing them of spying. [JustPaste]
East (Deir Ez-Zor)
Daesh says 2 of its suicide terrorists, an Uzbek and a Syrian, attacked Syrian Army positions by Tharda Mountain, killing or wounding “tens” of soldiers. [JustPaste]
OTHER MIDDLE EAST/NORTH AFRICA REPORTS
Neighboring countries
Jordan
An Amnesty International official says the attack on the border guards in Jordan should not affect the situation of the Syrian displaced people. The Jordanian authorities declared the border areas with Syria and Iraq closed military areas after a terrorists attacked Jordanian troops with a vehicle bomb near a refugee camp on Tuesday, killing six border guards and wounding fourteen. A military source said later that another guard died of wounds he suffered in the attack, raising the number of victims to seven. The King of Jordan met with the Presidential Envoy, Brett McGurk, and vowed that Jordan will continue supporting the war against Daesh. [ARA] [BasNews]
DaeshDaily comment. The Jordanian authorities accused Daesh of the attack, although Daesh didn’t claim responsibility for it. But the timing suggests it is a typical Daesh move, to cause chaos somewhere else so as to draw attention away from its problems in Iraq and Syria.
Local activists published a video of the suicide attack on social media. The Jordanian government disputed the accuracy of the video. [Arabi21]
DaeshDaily comment. The Jordanian government said the video is old and shows a suicide attack in Iraq in 2003. However, the vehicle in the video is a newer model, probably made in 2014.
North Africa
Egypt
Security captured an Ansar Bait Al-Maqdis commander in his house in the Hamayda area in Sheikh Zuweid, and confiscated explosives from the house. [VetoGate]
Egyptian Counter Terrorism groups killed 4 Ansar Bait Al-Maqdis terrorists in Sheikh Zuweid and Rafah. [ElWatan]
Policemen were wounded when an IED exploded on their vehicle south of Rafah. [ElWatan]
A policeman was killed and another one wounded when terrorists attacked a police station in Arish. [ElWatan]
Security captured 4 suspects in the attack on the two policemen in Arish. [VetoGate]
Daesh says it targeted an Egyptian Army M60 vehicle, south of Arish, with an IED. [JustPaste]
Daesh says it shot and killed two policemen near a police station in Arish. [JustPaste]
Daesh says its terrorists shot at a policeman near a school in Arish city. [JustPaste]
Security killed 2 terrorists and wounded another in Nakhal in Central Sinai. [VetoGate]
Libya
Northeast
A military spokesman says Libyan troops advanced in several areas in west Benghazi after airstrikes on Daesh locations in the area. [Wasat]
Central coast
The Libyan National Accord Government Military spokesman says two hundred and ten of his soldiers were killed and more than one hundred wounded since the start of the Sirte liberation operations. The Military Press says Libyan troops stopped a Daesh vehicle bomb suicide attack in Sirte. [Wasat]
In a separate story, Daesh says one of its Tunisian suicide terrorists attacked Libyan troops in the 700 area south of Sirte, killing or wounding “tens’ of soldiers and destroying several vehicles. [JustPaste]
Daesh publishes 2 photos of the terrorist and his vehicle bomb. [JustPaste]
Daesh publishes photos of battles in Sirte. [JustPaste]
Other countries
Yemen
Daesh publishes a photo of its terrorists training in Hadhramaut. [JustPaste]
SOCIAL MEDIA REPORTS
Daesh and the Tribes
Daesh has published countless videos and photos about the support it gets from the tribes in areas in controls. In Falluja, Daesh previously published photos of tribal leaders pledging allegiance, while an Iraqi soldier was being executed in the same place in front of them [Twitter]. That created a media and social media firestorm. Now, most Falluja areas have been re-captured and those tribal leaders are on a wanted list. Allegedly, 17 of them were captured. [Twitter]
Photos of old men tied and humiliated by Iraqi soldiers and PMF fighters, allegedly the same tribal leaders, are now surfacing every day. [Twitter] [Twitter] Such photos have created a backlash from the other side. Many Sunnis, Iraqi and others, are getting angry because they see old men being humiliated. [Twitter]
Even if the photos do depict some of these tribal leaders, we have to put in mind that some of them were forced to go to such occasions and pledge allegiance. Second, there is no easy way to confirm that the people who appear in the photos are the same tribal leaders anyway. Acts of arbitrary revenge are exactly what Daesh had in mind when it published such photos and videos in the first place. Daesh is a creature of hate. The more anger it can generate the more it can guarantee its continuity. The Iraqi government needs to be smart enough to see through the strategy and more vigilant about the impressions created on social media.
Videos of the Day
A video of Counter Terrorism troops in Falluja [Yalla]
A video of families escaping Falluja [YouTube]
A video of a Syrian Daesh terrorist captured in Falluja [YouTube]
A video of IAA strikes on Daesh hideouts in Falluja [MoD]
A video of a Daesh prison in Falluja [Etejah]
A video of Iraqi forces destroying a Daesh vehicle bomb north of Baiji [YouTube]
A video of PMFs destroying a Daesh vehicle bomb in Jazeera Samarra [YouTube]
A video of a Daesh drone shot down by Iraqi troops [MoD]
A video of PMFs destroying a vehicle bomb [YouTube]
A video of a Daesh headquarters being destroyed by an airstrike near Manbij [YouTube]
A video of a Daesh terrorists getting shot and killed [WarNewsTV]
OTHER DAESH MEDIA
Daesh publishes an app for children [JustPaste]
Daesh audio newsletter for today [JustPaste]
Daesh says it has distributed $610,000 to 17,000 poor families since the beginning of the month of Ramadan. [A3maq]
