May 24, 2016
Today’s Major Developments
Iraqi forces advance gradually in and around Falluja.
Al-Abadi says Daesh has collapsed in Falluja.
Iraqi forces accused of indiscriminate shelling of city.
23 Daesh terrorists captured in Baghdad.
Daesh increases executions in Mosul as pressure grows.
Campaign to take Raqqa from Daesh starts in Syria.
REPORTS FROM IRAQ
NATIONAL NEWS
Prime Minister Abadi said during the Cabinet weekly meeting that Daesh has collapsed in Falluja. He also said the Iraqi government made “all the necessary arrangements” to keep civilians safe during the military operations. [Sumaria]
A Sunni Alliance MP says the alliance suggested to Prime Minister Abadi prior to the Falluja campaign to keep the (Shia) PMFs outside Falluja city and have them support Iraqi forces from there. [Sumaria]
The UN issued a statement asking the Iraqi government to open an investigation into the “reckless use of force” against demonstrators on Friday. Two people were killed and hundreds wounded after the demonstrators broke into the Green Zone and the Council of Ministers. [Mada]
DaeshDaily comment. Sounds like an unbalanced analysis. How about the reckless use of force by demonstrators?
Speaker Jubouri’s office says the CoR will hold a session on Sunday. [Sumaria]
The Combined Joint Task Force says the Coalition conducted 12 airstrikes on Daesh in Iraq. In or near Falluja (4) and Baghdadi; Mosul (4), Qayara, Kasik, and Sinjar. [CJTF]
BAGHDAD
A Baghdad Operations Command source says 23 Daesh terrorists were captured in Baghdad. The source says the terrorists formed 5 cells and were using official badges to move freely in Baghdad. [BasNews]
Security-related incidents reported
Northwest (Khadimiya)
A security source says the body of an unknown man was found shot in Hurriya. [Ghad]
East (Sadr City, New Baghdad, etc.)
An MoI source says a pharmacist was killed when a sticky IED exploded under his car in Mashtal. [Mada]
A security source says an armed man shot and killed a civilian in the Ma’amel area. The source says the police captured the killer. [Ghad]
Southeast (Mada’in, etc.)
An MoI source says two people were killed and six wounded when an IED exploded near a restaurant in Zafaraniya. [Mada]
South (Dora, Mahmudiya)
An MoI source says an IED exploded near a market in Sayyed Abdullah village in Mahmudiya, killing one person and wounding seven. [Mada]
Iraqi Army 25th brigade troops defused 3 IEDs in the Albu Awsaj area in Latifiya.
Iraqi Army 55th brigade troops defused 4 IEDs and seized an explosives vest in the Karaghoul area in Yusufiyah. [BOC Facebook Page]
Southwest (Rasheed)
A security source says Iraqi forces captured 2 men wanted on terrorism charges, one in Bayya’ and the other in Al-Furat. [Ghad]
West (Mansour, Ghazaliya, Abu Ghraib)
An MoI source says an IED exploded near a wholesale market in Ameriya, killing two people and wounding five. [Mada]
A security source says an MoI employee was killed when a sticky IED exploded under his car in Hay Al-Hussein. [Maalomah]
Total Baghdad incidents reported: 9 (Includes only incidents reported)
ANBAR
Falluja
Baghdad Operations Command troops killed 51 terrorists, including 4 suicide bombers, and destroyed 2 vehicle bombs, 2 mortar units. 18 trenches, a communications center, and 33 IEDs in separate areas near the city including north Qarma, Albu Shijil, Tuffaha bridge, Lihaib and Bustan Al-Tikriti.
Coalition warplanes killed 18 terrorists and destroyed 4 trenches, 2 mortar units, 3 hideouts, and a heavy machine gun unit in different Falluja areas. [BOC Facebook Page]
Falluja city. The Falluja Operations Commander says the second stage of Falluja liberation operations has started and Iraqi forces have started to advance towards the city center from three sides. [Xendan]
The Military Intelligence Service says Iraqi F-16s bombed the electricity maintenance building in Hay Al-Shurta in Falluja City, which was used by Daesh to hide vehicle bombs, killing 4 terrorists and destroying 2 vehicle bombs.[Ghad]
The PMF Press says Iraqi forces killed several Daesh terrorists near the Shuhada’ neighborhood in east Falluja. It also said that Iraqi forces are moving southwest toward the Japanese Bridge. [Mawazin]
A JOC source says Coalition warplanes destroyed a Daesh rocket launcher, 30 locally made rockets, and a vehicle in Falluja, killing “tens” of terrorists. [Harbi]
A JOC source says the IAF destroyed a Daesh vehicle bomb factory in Falluja, a chlorine factory in Sijar, and a weapons storehouse in Mukhtar village, killing 8 terrorists. [Harbi]
A JOC source says the IAF destroyed a Daesh communication system and weapons storehouses in the Jolan neighborhood in Falluja, killing 8 terrorists. [Harbi]
A JOC source says Counter Terrorism troops conducted an “impossible” operation that killed several Daesh snipers and then provided information to the IAF, which destroyed most Daesh sniper towers around Falluja. [Mada]
Field sources say a Daesh Algerian commander and six of his associates were killed by a Kata’eb Hezbollah in Falluja. [Etejah]
A tribal PMF commander says 3 Daesh terrorists were stabbed to death by an armed group in the Wihda neighborhood in Falluja city. [Maalomah]
Baghdad Operations Command issues a photo of Daesh documents found in Falluja. One document ordered its terrorists to move their families outside the city, booby-trap houses and mosques and blow them up and film the process so as to implicate Iraqi forces, execute anyone who cooperates with the Iraqi forces, dress up as PMFs, and execute the prisoners in Daesh prisons and show the executions as crimes committed by Iraqi forces against Sunni civilians. [BOC Facebook Page]
Displaced families say Daesh terrorists are burning and looting houses in Falluja city to blame Iraqi forces. [Harbi]
The IWMC says Iraqi forces destroyed 5 Daesh vehicle bombs and found a car bomb and explosives vests factory in Falluja. [Mawazin]
An Anbar Operations Command source says Iraqi artillery destroyed a Daesh vehicle and killed 4 terrorists in the industrial area in Falluja city. [Maalomah]
The Samarra Police Commander says security forces tightened security procedures as a precaution to prevent Daesh terrorists fleeing Falluja from going to Samarra. [Mada]
A member of the Security Committee in Anbar Provincial Council says the Shia should withdraw from the Falluja battles after they shelled and rocketed the city indiscriminately, killing or wounding “tens” of civilians. [BasNews]
A Falluja hospital source says sixteen people were killed and forty wounded, mostly women and children, as a result of Iraqi forces’ shelling on the city since the military operations started. Tribal sources from the city say most of the Falluja neighborhoods suffered from indiscriminate bombing and shelling throughout the city. [IraqPress]
DaeshDaily comment. The Falluja hospital reported yesterday twenty people were killed.
A Saudi “official cleric” says Muslims should not support Iraqi forces in Falluja. He also says the Shia, the Iranians, and the Americans are surrounding and oppressing Sunni Iraqis in Falluja. [IslamMemo]
DaeshDaily comment. In other words, Shia are not real Muslims, a standard line of Wahhabi extremists which Daesh has adopted. As Daesh loses control of Falluja, there will be more of this sectarian propaganda, portraying the residents of Falluja as victims of the government and the Shia and Iran and the US. This will be part of the last-ditch effort to stave off a much-deserved defeat by pretending it’s just a sectarian conflict.
Such people have no solutions beyond their sectarian hatred. Should we just leave Daesh to behead people and throw young men from the roofs of buildings in Falluja? While the Saudi government publicly praises the war on terrorism, its huge religious organization keeps on supporting radicalism and terrorist ideologies. The “unofficial” fund raising for terrorist groups in still ongoing. For the Saudis, terrorist organizations are not that bad as long as they don’t work in Saudi Arabia.
Iraqi people have been watching the huge propaganda machine, and the fund raising, and countless Saudi terrorists blowing themselves up in Iraq. No one can blame them if they think that Daesh is largely a Saudi-created monster.
And again, this is not a 1400-year Sunni-Shia conflict. This is a Saudi-Iranian proxy war that started in 1979.
Sistani, through his rep, issued instructions to the PMFs to commit to abiding by the rules of war and to not to harm civilians during the Falluja campaign. [Harbi]
The PMF command issued orders to its fighters to keep the people and the properties in Falluja safe, and ordered its logistics units to cooperate with the Mayor of Ameriyat Al-Falluja in order to provide families with food and medical supplies. It also said any captured terrorist, Iraqis or foreigners, should be handed to the security forces immediately. [Maalomah]
Twenty one PMF factions, including the Anbar tribal PMFs and the Iraqi Christian Babelyoun Brigades, are participating in the Falluja liberation operations. [Harbi]
DaeshDaily comment. The participation of the tribal PMFs is extremely important in the liberation of any area in Anbar. The Christian PMFs add a lot to the sense of national unity in this battle.
North and east of Falluja. The IWMC says Iraqi forces destroyed 2 Daesh vehicle bombs before the vehicles reached their targets in the Albu Shijil area. [Mawazin]
Daesh deployed execution units to deal with its terrorists who are fleeing the battle in the Albu Shijil area. [Harbi]
Coalition warplanes bombed Daesh in Sijar, killing 7 terrorists and wounding others. Iraqi forces destroyed a construction shovel bomb north of Falluja. [BOC Facebook Page]
The Qarma Tribal PMF Commander says Iraqi forces cleared the Sijar police station 10 km (6 miles) north of Falluja, killing “tens” of terrorists. [Mada]
Daesh says 2 of its suicide terrorists, a Tajik and a Saudi, attacked Iraqi forces with vehicle bombs northwest of Falluja. Daesh publishes photos of the 2 terrorists and the explosions. [JustPaste] [JustPaste]
Daesh publishes photos of battles northwest of Falluja. The photos show another Tajik suicide terrorist inside a vehicle bomb. [JustPaste]
PMF units liberated the Albu Handhal area north of Saqlawiya. [Harbi]
PMF troops destroyed a Daesh vehicle bomb in Saqlawiya. [Harbi]
The Rapid Intervention Division says its troops liberated the Albu Hadid, Jaghaifa, and Youssefi areas killing more than 20 terrorists and destroying 3 vehicle bombs and 25 IEDs. [AIN]
The Qarma tribal PMFs commander says Iraqi forces cleared the Iraqi Factory east of Falluja, killing several terrorists and capturing weapons and vehicles. [Maalomah]
The Falluja PMF Brigade commander says Iraqi forces liberated the Salamiyat, Albu Jabal, and Zarqa areas east of Falluja, killing 33 terrorists. [BasNews]
Daesh reportedly requested assistance from the Abu Ghraib and Khan Dhari villages but were denied. [Harbi]
The IFP Commander says Iraqi force liberated Haswa Al-Assil village east of Falluja. He also says IFP commandos killed 5 Daesh terrorists in an orchard in Subaihat in Qarma. [Baghdadia] And speaking of Qarma . . .
Qarma. The Anbar Operations Commander says Coalition warplanes destroyed 4 Daesh mortar units, 4 booby-trapped buildings, a weapons storehouse, and 2 rocket launchers in the Subaihat area, killing many terrorists. [Sumaria]
A tribal PMF commander says more than 200 Daesh terrorists were killed during Qarma liberation battles. He also says Iraqi forces destroyed 5 Daesh vehicle bombs in the thermal station area, east of Falluja. [Maalomah]
The IFP commander says Iraqi forces secured the old Baghdad-Qarma road, and the roads from Qarma to the Falluja entrance. [Mada] [Mada]
A JOC source says IAA helicopters and drones destroyed a Daesh fuel tank bomb, a vehicle bomb, a tunnel, and a hideout in Qarma. [Harbi]
The chairman of the Khaldiya subdistrict council says the IAA killed the Daesh wali of Anbar and 4 of his associates in the Shahabi area in Qarma, north of Falluja. [Maalomah]
Daesh says it destroyed 7 Iraqi Humvees in the Shahabi area. [A3maq]
The AAH spokesman says his troops found 2 Daesh vehicle-rigging factories and 4 vehicle bombs in the Shahabi area. [Harbi]
A tribal PMF commander says Iraqi forces killed the Daesh weapons “education director” in Falluja and 6 of his assistants in Albu Ali Al-Jassem village in Qarma. [Mada]
The IFP Commander says Iraqi forces liberated Albu Auda and Abbasi villages. [Ghad]
The IFP Commander says his troops destroyed a Daesh tunnel linking the thermal station area and Albu Auda, killing 11 terrorists. [Harbi]
A Falluja Operations Command source says Iraqi forces destroyed Daesh sniper posts in the Hayakel and Ma’amel areas in addition to Daesh command and control sites in Dhubat, Jolan, and Andalus neighborhoods in the city. The source also says Iraqi forces destroyed 12-14 tactical units and 9 vehicle bombs. [Ghad]
Iraqi Army 23rd brigade troops killed 2 Daesh terrorists in the Ubaid area. [BOC Facebook Page]
A security source says the Al-Abbas Combat Division, a Shia PMF faction, liberated the Kubaishat area, east of Falluja. [Maalomah]
DaeshDaily comment. It seems like some Shia PMFs were given the job of liberating areas that were supposedly liberated a long time ago.
The IFP Commander says his troops destroyed 3 Daesh vehicles, killed 3 terrorists, and defused 25 IEDs in the Lifiya area in Qarma. [Harbi]
The IWMC says Iraqi Army 6th division liberated Lihaib village northeast of the city. The IWMC also says the Iraqi Army 14th division liberated Albu Khanfar, killing several terrorists and destroying 2 vehicle bombs. [AIN]
A tribal PMF commander says Qassem Soleimani, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard commander, is in the Falluja area. He also says 3 Daesh Afghan terrorists were killed, and 5 other terrorists surrendered to Iraqi forces in Qarma. [BasNews]
South of Falluja. A Falluja Operations Command source says Counter Terrorism troops captured “tens” of Daesh terrorists in the Hayakel area. [Ghad]
The PMF press says PMF units stopped a Daesh attack on the Hayakel area southeast of Falluja, killing several terrorists. [Maalomah]
A member of the Ameriyat Al-Falluja subdistrict council says more than 70 families were secured by Iraqi forces south of Falluja. He also says there are thousands of families trapped in the city and Daesh is not allowing them to leave. [Maalomah]
An Anbar Operations Command source says two tribal PMF battalions, supported by Iraqi Army artillery, approached the Falluja Dam. [Maalomah]
Iraqi Army 60th brigade troops killed 2 Daesh terrorists and wounded another in Ma’amir.
Daesh says it destroyed an Iraqi Army bulldozer and heavy machine gun in the Ma’amir area. [A3maq]
Daesh issues a video of the dead body of an Iraqi soldier who was killed in a battle south of Falluja. [A3maq]
The Daesh military commander of south Falluja, Iyad Al-Marzouq, was killed according to PMFs. [Harbi]
The PMF press says PMF units liberated Al-Azraq Factory, south of Falluja, killing 5 Daesh terrorists. PMF units also killed a sniper and destroyed a vehicle bomb in the Albu Shijil area. [Maalomah]
Mohamed Al Bishara and Hussein Al-Mayahi, reporters for the Al-Wala’ Station, a Shia TV channel, were severely wounded in the Falluja battles. [Rudaw]
Ramadi
Daesh says it targeted “Iraqi Army positions” in Ramadi with 36 rockets on Monday. [JustPaste]
Hit/Baghdadi/Haditha
A JOC source says Jazeera Operations Command troops found 3 vehicle bombs in additions to large quantities of C4 explosives in Hit district. [Harbi]
Rutba/Western Anbar
A JOC source says Iraqi forces found a Daesh vehicle bomb in the Rutba District. [Harbi]
SALAHUDDIN
Baiji
A Salahuddin Operations Command source says Iraqi forces stopped a Daesh attack on Siniya, killing 4 terrorists and destroying 2 vehicles and a bulldozer. [Ghad]
Daesh says it destroyed Iraqi Humvees with mortar shells on the road between Baiji and Haditha. [JustPaste]
Tikrit
A JOC source says Iraqi forces, supported by IAA helicopters, killed 4 Daesh terrorists and destroyed a heavy machine gun in the Allas area. [Harbi]
A Salahuddin Operations Command source says the IAA destroyed 3 Daesh military positions and mortar units on the Himrin Hills, north of Al-Alam. [Ghad]
Southern Salahuddin
A JOC source says 42 displaced families returned to their houses in Yathrib. [Harbi]
DIYALA
Baquba
The JOC says Iraqi forces captured a man wanted on terrorism charges in Baquba. [Harbi]
Muqdadiya/Abu Saida
A security source says unknown armed men shot and killed 2 civilians in Muqdadiya center. [Maalomah]
A security source says unknown armed men shot and killed a retired policeman in east Muqdadiya. [Sumaria]
A security source says unknown armed men kidnapped a tribal PMF fighter in west Muqdadiya. [Sumaria]
Northern Diyala
Iraqi Army 5th division troops are facilitating the return of displaced families to Udhaim and Himrin areas. [MoD Website]
KIRKUK
Hawija
A Kirkuk police commander says 144 civilians escaped Daesh controlled areas in Hawija and arrived at the Peshmerga compound west of Kirkuk. [BasNews]
NINEWA
Daesh issues a video of its battles against the Peshmerga in Ninewa. The video also shows footage of Abu Ali Al-Anbari, its second in command, who was killed recently. [A3maq]
Mosul
Local sources say Daesh published the names of ninety people it executed in Mosul. [Karemlash]
A local source says Daesh executed eleven civilians by electrifying them, after accusing them of trying to flee, in Shura subdistrict south of the city. [Maalomah]
A PUK official says Daesh arrested 20 young men from different areas in Mosul and took them to an unknown location because they used their mobile phones. [Mada]
The IWMC says Coalition warplanes killed several Daesh terrorists and destroyed many vehicles in an airstrike on Rashidiya, north of Mosul. [Mawazin]
Kata’eb Al-Mosul says it killed a Daesh hisbah member near the Yarmouk tunnel in Mosul. [KM Facebook Page]
A local source says Coalition warplanes bombed several Daesh locations in Al-Khazer, killing 10 terrorists and wounding 8. [Buratha]
Daesh issues a video of the results of American airstrikes on residential areas in Mosul. Daesh says seven people were killed and twenty-three wounded in the airstrikes. [A3maq] [A3maq]
Nineveh Plain
A Peshmerga commander says Daesh punished some of its terrorists who fled the battles in Tesgofa by feeding them alive to dogs. [BasNews]
Makhmur/Qayara
The IWMC says Coalition warplanes bombed a Daesh hideout in Al-Houd village, killing 16 terrorists including a commander. Daesh used this hideout to attack Iraqi forces in the Makhmur area. [Buratha]
Daesh says it attacked Iraqi forces in Kharbardan village and killed or wounded several soldiers, and destroyed 2 military positions and a Humvee. [JustPaste]
A JOC source says Coalition warplanes killed 6 Daesh terrorists and destroyed 4 rocket launchers near Mahana and Kubruk villages. [Harbi]
A JOC source says Iraqi forces defused 2 land mines near Al-Nassr village. [Harbi]
Northwest (Tal Afar, Sinjar)
The Speaker of the KRG parliament says the KDP Peshmerga withdrew from Sinjar in August 2014 and let Daesh capture the city and kill and enslave the Yazidis. He says many parties in the parliament want to question the Peshmerga commanders about this, but the KRG President stopped the parliament sessions, preventing the issues from being discussed. [Hawar]
DaeshDaily comment. We have reported this allegation previously, which we believe based on part on eyewitness testimony. When the Peshmerga captured Sinjar later, however, Barzani tried to ignore this earlier sellout and acted as if the KRG was the savior of the Yazidis, then put a territorial claim on Sinjar.
KURDISTAN
The KRG President Masoud Barzani met with General Sean McFarland, the Coalition commander, to discuss the war against Daesh, the support of the Coalition for the Peshmerga, and the Mosul liberation, according to a statement from Barzani’s office. [Rudaw]
SOUTHERN IRAQ
Diwaniya
The Diwaniya police chief says a 19-year old man wanted on terrorism charges was captured at a checkpoint on the road to Baghdad. [Ghad]
REPORTS FROM SYRIA
The Combined Joint Task Force says the Coalition conducted 7 airstrikes on Daesh in Syria, in or near Raqqa (4), Shaddadi, Ain Eissa, and Deir Ez-Zor. [CJTF]
DaeshDaily comment. Having Raqqa and Deir Ez-Zor in the same report may be indicative. Raqqa is up the river from Deir Ez-Zor, which is in turn just across the border from Al-Qa’im, now in the sights of Iraqi forces. It would not be surprising if these three cities appear more often in the same reports.
Northeast (Hasaka, Raqqa)
The Syria Democratic Forces issued a statement announcing the start of the “North Raqqa Liberation Operations.” The operations started from 3 sides and 25,000 SDF fighters are participating. [Rudaw] [Hawar]
The SDF liberated Qartaja south of Ain Eissa from Daesh. Daesh terrorists are burning down houses and farms in the villages as they leave the area. [Hawar]
Photos of SDF units in the liberated Qartaja village [BasNews]
SDF forces, supported by Coalition warplanes, are fighting Daesh in 4 areas in south and southeast Ain Eissa. [Hawar]
Heavy clashes are ongoing between the SDF and Daesh in Hisha village, 5 km (3 miles) south of Ain Eissa. [Hawar]
“Trusted sources” say 250 American Marines including commandos arrived in Syria in preparation for the attack on Daesh in Raqqa. [Hawar]
An SDF commander says the SDF received a new installment of American weapons after the visit of General Joseph Votel, Commander of the US Central Command. [ARA]
A Free Syrian Army commander says FSA factions will participate in the Raqqa battles, but complained that his troops did not receive Coalition weapons. He says Coalition military cargo planes delivered 3 shipments in less than a week for the SDF. [Qasioun]
Daesh issues a video of the elementary school exams in Raqqa. [A3maq]
Northwest (Aleppo, Idlib)
An “informed source” says an American Department of State delegation arrived in Kobane and met with PYD officials. [BasNews]
The YPG says it stopped another Turkey-backed opposition attack on Sheikh Maqsoud, killing four fighters. [Hawar]
The YPG says Daesh shelled several areas in Kobane District with heavy artillery. [Hawar]
Daesh shelled Qumlaq village in Kobane, wounding four people. [Hawar]
A local source says young men attacked a Daesh vehicle on the road between Manbij and Jarabulus, killing 3 terrorists. The source says Daesh then conducted a raid, arresting “tens” of young men in the area. [Hawar]
The Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs says Moscow is ready to cooperate with the United States and the Kurds in order to liberate Raqqa. [Hawar]
A video taken by a Coalition unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) on February 2nd shows two Daesh terrorists emplacing an improvised explosive device (IED) near Dudyan; this information was used to report threat locations back to friendly forces. [CJTF]
Central and West (Homs, Hama, etc.)
Daesh launched a large attack on Syrian troops near the Sha’er oilfield in order to regain the positions it had lost over the last few days. Daesh also clashed with Syrian troops near Qaryatayn. Russian warplanes launched extensive airstrikes on Sukhnah, causing material damages. [Qasioun]
A Syrian military source says Syrian warplanes destroyed several Daesh vehicles east of Tadmur and near Sha’er oilfield. The source also says Syrian troops stopped a Daesh attack in the Um Al-Tababir area east of Homs, killing or wounding several terrorists and destroying a vehicle bomb. [Sana]
Daesh says it recaptured Sawana Hill in the Huwaisis area east of Homs. [A3maq]
Daesh says it conducted a suicide attack on Syrian troops in the Farqles area east of Homs. [A3maq]
South (Rif Damashq, Suwayda, Daraa, etc.)
Daesh says it attacked a building in Yarmouk camp and killed 2 Al-Qaeda terrorists. [A3maq]
Daesh says it killed the military commander of Nusra front in Yarmouk camp. [JustPaste]
Daesh shows its terrorists celebrating their terrorist attacks on Tartus and Jableh and distributing sweets in Damascus. [JustPaste]
DaeshDaily comment. The goal here is not to show victory only, but it also implicates the Sunnis in Damascus in Daesh crimes by showing them celebrating the terrorist attacks and the deaths of civilians.
OTHER MIDDLE EAST/NORTH AFRICA REPORTS
North Africa
Egypt
Security forces attacked a terrorist gathering in south Sheikh Zuweid, killing 30 terrorists. [VetoGate]
A security source says Egyptian Apaches destroyed 3 Ansar Bait Al-Maqdis vehicles, killing 11 terrorists, south of Sheikh Zuweid. The vehicles were equipped with anti-aircraft machine guns. [ElWatan]
An officer and three soldiers were killed when a booby-trapped house exploded on them near Joura village south of Sheikh Zuweid. Three other soldiers were wounded by Ansar Bait Al-Maqdis snipers in the same area. [ElWatan]
A civilian was killed when an IED exploded on his vehicle south of Rafah. The civilian was accused by the terrorists of cooperating with the Egyptian Army. [VetoGate]
Security sources say Egyptian helicopters continued their attacks on Ansar Bait Al-Maqdis hideouts in Halal Mountain in Central Sinai for the 5th day in a row. More than 200 terrorists were killed or wounded so far. [ElWatan]
Libya
Northeast
A local source says the Libyan Army is advancing in the Qawarsha area of west Benghazi. The source also says four Libyan soldiers were killed in the battle. [ElWatan]
The Libyan Special forces say their troops captured more areas in Qawarsha and destroyed a Daesh BMP armored vehicle. The Libyan Army artillery also targeted Daesh in the area, and a special forces soldier was wounded when a Daesh mine exploded on him in a house. [AfriGate]
Daesh says it destroyed a Libyan Army military position in Qawarsha with a mortar shell. [JustPaste]
Central coast
A local source says Daesh booby-trapped the Sirte University buildings, the Ibn Sina Hospital, and water tanks, in addition to buildings, houses, and the main entrance to Sirte City. [Libya24]
Local sources say Daesh appointed a Tunisian terrorist as the Harawa wali and a Sudanese terrorist as the Bin Jawad wali, opening hisbah offices in both cities. [Libya24]
Local sources say disputes erupted between Daesh local and foreign terrorists in Sirte. Daesh called for a meeting to make peace between the two groups. Local sources published a photo of the Daesh document that explains the disputes and orders a meeting. Daesh also called people to attend the execution of 2 of its commanders in the Zaafaran area in west Sirte before the meeting, according to a leaflet distributed in the city (photos). [Libya24] [Libya24] [Ana Al-Muslim] [Ana Al-Muslim]
Tunisia
Security forces captured 2 Salafi takfiris in Aryanah. [Tunisien]
Other countries
Lebanon
The Lebanese National Media Agency says the Lebanese Army conducted a military operation in Arsal town and captured a Daesh commander. Security forces also captured a Syrian Daesh terrorist in Arsal. [Qasioun]
SOCIAL MEDIA SOURCES
Facebook Page of the Day
A Libya news page
Daesh Twitter Accounts of the Day
https://twitter.com/fruitenzymess
https://twitter.com/Khilafa91fr
https://twitter.com/Vnydkdusk0080
Other Daesh media
Daesh audio newsletter for today [JustPaste]
