November 16, 2016
People Shelled By Daesh (Odd Andersen)
Today’s Major Developments
Daesh still fighting back in east Mosul. [..]
Daesh executes 63 more people in Mosul. [..]
IFP captures key village south of Mosul. [..]
PMFs charge into Tal Afar province, go after Tal Afar airfield. [..]
Barzani puts another territorial claim on Ninewa territory captured by Peshmerga. [..]
The YPG is leaving Manbij, having trained local forces. [..]
Syrians, Russians unleash deadly airstrikes as Syrian Army moves on eastern Aleppo. [..]
Daesh, Turkey-supported groups, SDF all competing for Al-Bab. [..]
REPORTS FROM IRAQ
NATIONAL NEWS
The European Union mission in Iraq issued a statement saying the EU stands by Iraqis at this critical time and commends the courage and sacrifices of all Iraqis, in particular those actively taking part in the fight against Daesh. It also says it welcomes the unprecedented unified action to date, under the lead and coordination of central Iraqi authorities, of the Iraqi Army, Federal Police, Counter Terrorism Service, Peshmerga, and Popular Mobilization Forces, with the support of Coalition forces. It says it praises in particular the commitment of all those forces to protect civilians and respect their dignity and human rights throughout this campaign. [EU]
UK Ministry of Defense Advisor Imam Hafiz says in a press conference in the UK Embassy in Baghdad that hundreds of UK citizens have joined Daesh. He says the UK government established procedures for preventing citizens from joining Daesh and for capturing the terrorists who have already joined, once they return to the UK. [Rudaw]
The Coalition says it conducted 12 airstrikes on Daesh targets in Iraq, eight of them in or near Mosul, the rest in Hawija (1), Haditha (2), and Rawa (1). [InherentResolve]
BAGHDAD
Security-related incidents reported
Center (Rusafa, Karkh, etc.)
The IWMC says a Daesh-connected cell planning for attacks on Shia pilgrims was arrested in Baghdad. [Sumaria]
The Central Criminal Court in Baghdad sentences 11 Daesh convicts to death on charges of assassinating the Diyala Governor’s advisor, among other terror charges. [Mada]
Northwest (Kadhimiya, etc.)
An MOI source says that an IED killed two civilians and wounded five others in Tobchi. [Mada]
IFP 8th brigade broke into a house in Shalchia based on intelligence information, arresting its owner and capturing a large explosives cache. [BOC Facebook Page]
North (Tarmiya, Taji, etc.)
An MOI source says 4 persons, including a woman, were arrested while transferring IEDs and an explosives belt in Tarmiya. [Mada]
East (Sadr City, New Baghdad, etc.)
An MOI source says gunmen shot dead a money exchange shop owner in his car in Ameen, robbing $60,000. [Mada]
Southeast (Mada’in, etc.)
An MOI source says one civilian was killed and four others wounded by an IED explosion in Nahrawan. [Mada]
Iraqi Army 42nd brigade captured a Daesh terrorist in Mada’in. He had appeared in a YouTube video fighting Iraqi forces in Amerli (video). [AIN]
Southwest (Rasheed, etc.)
An MOI source says two civilians were killed and six wounded by an IED placed in a commercial area in Bayaa’. [Mada]
West (Ghazaliya, Abu Ghraib, etc.)
Iraqi Army 24th brigade destroyed 5 IEDs and captured a weapon and explosives cache in Haswa, in Abu Ghraib. [BOC Facebook Page]
Total Baghdad incidents reported: 10 (Includes only incidents reported)
Total IED incidents reported: 5
ANBAR
Iraqi Army 8th division destroyed 63 IEDs in Falahat west of Falluja city and Zangoura west of Ramadi city, while the 10th army division cleared a 6 km road in Hay Al-Furat. Anbar Mobilization intelligence units detected a large explosive cache in Albu Saleh. [MoD Website]
Falluja
Anbar Police department says it arrested a Daesh terrorist hiding in a tunnel inside a house in Falluja. The man was hiding there for 4 months, where food supplies, some rotten, were also found. [Mada]
Col. Jumaa Faza’ Al-Jumaili, a commander in the Anbar Tribal Mobilization, says engineering units in the Cement Factory, east of Falluja, defused 70 IEDs. [Maalomah]
Hit/Haditha
Lt. Col. Nadhem Al-Jughaifi, of the Tribal Mobilization in Haditha, says US troops are inspecting the Haditha Dam area to establish an advance base there. The base will be the second for the US troops in the area after Ayn Al-Asad base near Hit. [ARA]
DaeshDaily comment. It’s not yet clear why the US would want two base locations in the same area. Further explanation will presumably follow.
Daesh says it attacked Iraq forces in Kubaisa, killing or wounding service members, including officers. [A3maq]
Rutba/Western Anbar
Security sources in Anbar say Daesh attacked 1st army division positions east of Rutba with 10 vehicle bombs and groups of suicide attackers. The sources say all vehicles were destroyed as the army repelled the terror attack. [ARA]
Iraqi Army 1st division destroyed 3 IEDs while inspecting the international highway area east of Rutba. [MoD Website]
Daesh says it destroyed 4 Iraqi Army vehicles and captured weapons and an SUV in an attack in the Kilo 60 area east of Rutba. [A3maq] [Isdarat]
Daesh issues a video of the attack. [A3maq]
A tribal source in Rahaliya subdistrict on the Anbar-Kerbala border says PMF units arrested 13 men from the subdistrict and took them to an unidentified location. The source says this could be in retaliation for a recent Daesh attack on Ayn Tamr, in Kerbala. [Anadolu]
SALAHUDDIN
Shirqat
The Salahuddin Operations Command says its engineering units destroyed 16 IEDs in Tilul Al-Baj, while the 21st infantry brigade found an explosives workshop and a cache. Rafidain Operations units destroyed an armored vehicle, while the IFP destroyed a Daesh vehicle. [MoD Website]
Baiji
Daesh says it targeted PMF positions in areas north and west of Baiji with 40 mortars. [Isdarat]
Daesh says its snipers killed three PMF fighters in the Palaces area on Makhoul Mountain. [A3maq]
Samarra
Iraqi Army 74th brigade and IFP 19th brigade arrested 3 men wanted on terrorism in Dujail and Jazeera Samarra. [MoD Website]
DIYALA
Northern Diyala (Kifri, Khanaqin, etc.)
The Dijla Operations commander says his troops destroyed a Daesh boat in Himrin Lake. [Sumaria]
KIRKUK
Kirkuk
A Kirkuk police commander says his troops captured 6 Daesh members who were linked to sleeper cells in Kirkuk. [Sumaria]
The Kirkuk Criminal Court sentenced a Daesh terrorist to 15 years imprisonment for terror attacks in the province. [Sumaria]
A security source says a civilian was wounded by a Daesh IED in Kirkuk District while he was trying to escape Daesh controlled areas. [Sumaria]
Hawija
A local source in Kirkuk says a masked man on a motorcycle shot dead “Abu Jabir,” a photographer of Daesh executions in Hawija. [Sumaria]
Southwest
A Peshmerga commander says 38 Daesh terrorists were killed by Coalition bombing and Peshmerga shelling southwest of Kirkuk. The terrorists were planning on attacking Peshmerga positions in the area. [Rudaw]
NINEWA
The IAF destroyed an unspecified number of Daesh sites in Ninewa, according to an MoD statement (video). [MOD Website]
The Interior Ministry is accepting applications from volunteers for police work and other duties in Ninewa, according to an MoI statement. Volunteers can apply until the 23rd of this month, the statement said. [IPA]
Mosul
Mosul liberation campaign
A Ninewa GC member said that the Counter-Terrorism Service (CTS) had captured the neighborhoods of Aden and Tahrir in eastern Mosul. A security source said earlier in the day that the CTS had raided Tahrir, and a CTS officer said the neighborhood was “90 percent” under Iraqi control. The CTS has also seized the Al-Bakr neighborhood, according to the CTS commander, killing “tens” of Daesh militants in the operation. The CTS is now 4 km (2.5 miles) from central Mosul, the CTS commander said. [BasNews] [Baghdadia] [Sumaria] [BasNews]
Less sweeping was a statement by a CTS commander that Iraqi forces have captured 80% of Hay Al-Tahrir. [Rudaw]
More than eight neighborhoods have been cleared in eastern Mosul, the MoD announced. In the eastern Mosul area, more than 200 Daesh fighters have been killed and 100 vehicle bombs destroyed, while approximately 40,000 or 50,000 civilians remain in their homes as the operation progresses, the MoD announced (video). [MoD Website]
A COR member from Ninewa says Daesh is heavily shelling the liberated areas on the east side of Mosul, burying entire families in the rubble. [Sumaria]
Daesh concedes that Iraqi forces captured the neighborhoods of Al-Zahra, Al-Tisin, and Al-Samah, in addition to parts of Arbajiya, Intisar, Shaima, and Qadisiya Thaniya, since the battles started. [A3maq]
However, Daesh says Iraqi suicide terrorists attacked Iraqi forces near Hay Al-Zahra with a vehicle bomb, killing seventeen Iraqi service members and destroying an Abrams tank and 3 Humvees. [A3maq] [DawaAlhaq]
Daesh also says its snipers killed two Iraqi soldiers and wounded another near Hay Al-Zahra. [A3maq] In another report it says its snipers killed five service members there and wounded two others. [Isdarat] In another it says it destroyed an Iraqi forces Humvee and a bulldozer near Hay Al-Zahra. [A3maq]
Here Daesh says it conducted a suicide attack on Iraqi SWAT forces in Hay Al-Tahrir north of Hay Al-Zahra, destroying an Abrams tank and 3 Humvees. [A3maq]
Daesh reportedly fired Kornet missiles during its counter-attack on Al-Zahra, prompting speculation as to how the group obtained the Russian-made weapons. [BasNews]
Here Daesh says a Tajik suicide terrorist attacked Iraqi SWAT forces with a vehicle bomb in Hay Al-Samah, killing 20 fighters and wounding others, and destroying 5 Humvees, and damaging 2. [DawaAlhaq]
Here Daesh says it destroyed an Iraqi Army BMP vehicle and a Humvee with rockets near Hay Al-Intisar. [Isdarat]
Daesh says it destroyed a SWAT BMP armored vehicle in Hay Al-Intisar. [A3maq]
The Iraqi Army Ninth Armored Division has reportedly reached the Al-Salam neighborhood on the eastern bank of the Tigris, after which it intends to cross the river to conduct operations in the western half of the city. [BasNews]
The Iraqi 16th Division is preparing to launch operations on the Al-Arabi and other areas in the north of the city, according to JOC. Daesh is reportedly dug in at that location and operations are expected to be difficult, BasNews reports. The 16th Division destroyed two vehicle bombs on the northern edge of the city, a security source said. [Mada] [BasNews]
The CTS evacuated 120 families from multiple areas of Mosul to Al-Khazer IDP camp, a security source said. [Mada]
Daesh says it targeted Iraqi forces in several parts of east Mosul and east of Mosul with more than 125 mortars. [Isdarat]
Daesh says an Egyptian suicide terrorist attacked Iraqi forces in Sheherazad village in southeast Mosul with a vehicle bomb, killing fifteen service members, destroying four military vehicles and damaging a BMP armored vehicle. [DawaAlhaq]
Yesterday Daesh said it killed thirteen SWAT members in the attack.
Daesh publishes photos of battles in east Mosul. [DawaAlhaq]
Daesh publishes photos of battles “north of Mosul.” [Isdarat]
Military developments within Mosul
Daesh executed 25 civilians in Mosul on allegations of providing information to government security agencies, according to a media announcement by the Iraqi High Commission for Human Rights. Their bodies have reportedly not been released to their families. The victims had reportedly been arrested in the last two days in various parts the governorate. The report also said that Daesh holds approximately 2,000 civilian captives and is attempting to move them toward Tal Afar for use as human shields there. [Waradana] [ROJ]
According to another report, Daesh executed 21 civilians in the city after conducting a campaign searching for mobile phones and other communications devices on the grounds that those possessing such devices are suspected of providing information to the security agencies. [BasNews]
Daesh executed 17 people from four families in the eastern Mosul neighborhood of Al-Bakr, according to reported remarks by a Ninewa Operations Command officer. The executions reportedly came as reprisals for the families having attempted to protest Daesh control of their neighborhood, according to the officer. [Waradana]
A “secret letter” reportedly obtained from Daesh in Mosul and reported by Reuters claims that Daesh “Caliph” Awwad Baghdadi is now never without his suicide vest. The Daesh leader reportedly has neglected his appearance after hiding in tunnels to evade capture and bombing attacks. [Baghdadia]
DaeshDaily comment. Another Baghdadi sighting at which he is not actually seen.
Daesh has reportedly deployed wooden decoy tanks to draw fire from attacking aircraft, according to a report in Indian media. [Maalomah]
In western Mosul Daesh is preparing to deploy young boys as suicide bombers, and its fighters have acquired different clothing to better infiltrate the civilian population, an Iraqi security expert stated. [Mawazin]
Conditions in Mosul
A teenage Daesh affiliate reportedly detonated his suicide vest in his home, killing himself and all six members of his family who were present, a local source said. [Sumaria]
Video shows the “return to life” of barbershops in the neighborhood of Intisar after the expulsion of Daesh from the area. Daesh’s restrictions on men’s grooming had left the barbershops nearly empty, the reporter says. [Sumaria]
Shura/Hammam Alil/Mosul subdistrict
Mosul subdistrict
PMF forces in southwest Mosul subdistrict crossed into Tal Afar today and reportedly captured the Tal Afar Airport. These news items are covered in the Northwest (Tal Afar, Sinjar) section below.
Daesh says it damaged a PMF Abrams tank with a missile near Seta village. Daesh says its terrorists returned safely after the attack. [DawaAlhaq] [A3maq]
Hammam Al-Alil
The IFP captured the strategically located town of Adhba south of Mosul on Wednesday, which is northwest of Hammam Al-Alil on the main road into Mosul, according to Mosul operations commander Lt. Gen. Abd Al-Amir Rashid Yarallah. [Mada]
Daesh has withdrawn to the Albu Saif and Al-Ghazlani areas just south of Mosul’s southern entrance, according to BasNews correspondent. The IFP has reportedly surrounded Albu Saif and has been shelling Daesh there in preparation for storming the town. [BasNews]
Iraqi Joint Forces are just 1 km (0.6 miles) from the Mosul airport on the southern front, a Ninewa GC member said. [Mawazin] The airport is on the southeast corner of Mosul.
Daesh says a group of its terrorists sneaked into Iraqi forces positions near Hammam Al-Alil and attacked with light weapons and hand grenades, killing or wounding service members. [A3maq] [Isdarat]
Daesh says it destroyed an Iraqi forces Humvee near Al-Sada village west of Hammam Al-Alil, killing the service members inside. [A3maq]
Daesh said on Tuesday it destroyed an Iraqi Army amphibian armored vehicle with a missile near Hammam Al-Alil. [Isdarat]
Shura
The IFP captured a Daesh explosives cache in Shura subdistrict, according to a statement issued on social media by the IFP. [Forat]
Nineveh Plain
Hamdaniya
Iraqi Armed Forces are continuing the effort to clear the Bartella area of explosives and prepare it for the return of displaced persons, according to an MoD statement (video). [MoD Website]
Iraqi troops captured the village of Tal Akoub north of the Zab River near Nimrud, Mosul operations commander Lt. Gen. Abd Al-Amir Rashid Yarallah announced. [Sumaria]
Seven Tribal Mobilization fighters were killed by an IED attack near the Nimrud ancient site, according to Tribal Mobilization commander Saad Al-Luhaibi. [Anadolu]
The MoD announced the recapture of the archaeological site of Nimrud Hill, but said that Daesh destroyed the site completely. [Sumaria]
Tel Keif
A group of residents trapped in Tel Keif district appealed on Sumaria News to the Iraqi government to expedite its liberation of the area, saying residents are facing shortages of food and basic supplies. Airstrikes are not effective against Daesh, the group said, because Daesh fighters are able to seek safety in their tunnels. The Tel Keif residents are not able to deal with their dead and wounded the group said, owing to Daesh’s control of the main roads. [Sumaria]
The Iraqi Army 16th Division captured a large Daesh training base in the Mosul Falls area, according to an MoD statement. [MoD Website]
Northwest (Tal Afar, Sinjar)
PMFs have captured Tal Afar airfield after heavy fighting with Daesh, according to an announcement by Ahmad Al-Asadi the PMF spokesman. Al-Asadi said that the PMFs were now tracking and pursuing Daesh members fleeing the airbase.
The Badr PMF announced earlier that its fighters had reached the “outer fence” of the airfield and were surrounding the facility. Daesh commanders fled toward the Syrian borders, PMF media reported. A field officer from the Hizbullah PMF militia made a similar report. [Maalomah] [Sumaria] [Buratha] [Maalomah]
DaeshDaily comment. There are conflicting reports on the extent to which the airfield has been “captured.” The details should sort out by tomorrow.
PMFs captured weapons and rockets inside the airbase, according to the PMF media office. [Ghad]
The Hizbullah PMF militia reported that its intelligence monitored Daesh Turkish-language telephone calls from Tal Afar airfield. [Etejah]
DaeshDaily comment: Without commenting on the militia’s insinuation that Daesh is in contact with Turkish interlocutors, we note that Tal Afar is a Turkmen city and many of its inhabitants converse in the Turkish language, presumably including those who joined Daesh.
Daesh mobilized its fighters and all its materiel in areas south of Tal Afar airfield from surrounding areas in a bid to stop the move of the PMFs toward the airport, the PMF authority announced. [Waradana] [Maalomah]
Daesh denies losing the airport. It says it stopped the PMF advance. It says one of its suicide terrorists attacked the PMFs with a vehicle bomb, killing or wounding several fighters and damaging an armored personnel carrier and 2 Humvees. [A3maq]
Daesh says 3 PMF Humvees were damaged after they drove through a minefield in Subban village, near Tal Afar Military Airport south of Tal Afar city. [A3maq] Daesh says it destroyed a PMF Humvee with an IED in the same area. [A3maq]
Daesh says a suicide terrorist from Tal Afar attacked a PMF convoy with an explosives vest in Subban, killing or wounding several fighters and destroying a personnel carrier and 4 Humvees. Daesh also says it targeted the PMF positions in the village with more than 100 mortars. [Isdarat]
More than 1,000 female Yazidi fighters are taking part in the campaign west of Mosul, according to the commander of the Yazidi Women’s Protection Units. [Ghad]
South (Baaj, Hatra)
PMFs have surrounded the village of Al-Hamra, and have destroyed a Daesh vehicle bomb nearby, according to a statement issued by the PMF media office. [Forat]
More than 5,000 civilians are reportedly trapped in the Hatra District south of Mosul, according to the district mayor, who says they are trapped between the Daesh lines on one side and the PMFs on the other. [BasNews]
KURDISTAN
KRG President Masoud Barzani has rebuffed remarks by Iraqi MPs who said that the Peshmerga would withdraw from areas they liberated from Daesh. The Peshmerga will not withdraw from areas they captured from Daesh, he said. [Arabi21]
The southeastern KRG area of Garmian has made preparations to accept 1,000 displaced persons from Ninewa in addition to the 60 families that are already in the area, according to the area’s human rights affairs director. [ROJ]
SOUTHERN IRAQ
Babel
Babel Police says three persons wanted on terrorism charges were arrested in the International Highway area north of Hilla. [Mada]
Basra
Basra Judiciary media office says that a convict was executed for a terrorism-motivated murder in Al-Khalis, Diyala seven years ago. [Sumaria]
Muthanna
The Chairman of the Security Committee in Muthanna Provincial Council says the Intelligence Service intercepted communications between Muthanna and Najaf that show Daesh is planning terrorist attacks on Shia pilgrims. He says security units have increased their patrols in the area. [Mada]
REPORTS FROM SYRIA
Special Presidential Envoy to the Coalition Brett McGurk shared a message from his Twitter account announcing that YPG units will be withdrawing from Manbij and returning to the east side of the Euphrates. He says all YPG units will depart Manbij after training local units to maintain security, describing the move as a milestone. [Birgun]
The Coalition says it conducted 10 airstrikes on Daesh targets in Syria: in Shaddadi (2), Ain Eissa (4), Albu Kamal (2), and Deir Ez-Zor (2). [InherentResolve]
Northeast (Hasaka, Raqqa)
Hasaka
Asayesh (security) forces of the self-declared Kurdish Autonomous administration broke into the Amude Radio station of the Yekiti party, near Qamishli, and arrested four of its employees, according to a station officials. [Rudaw]
Turkish army is building a concrete wall near the village of Kardimiya in the Derik area, on the Syrian side of the border. The Turks are 50-150 m inside Syrian territory in that area. [Hawar]
A land mine killed a 15 year old shepherd near the Mount of Kawkab north of Hasaka, local sources say. [ARA]
Daesh said on Tuesday it destroyed an SDF bulldozer with a missile in Tal Al-Bashayer, southeast of Shaddadi. [Isdarat]
DaeshDaily comment. One way to tell that Daesh is losing in an area is that its reports start highlighting brave attacks on military equipment.
Daesh said on Tuesday it targeted SDF positions in Al-Jalal village, south of Shaddadi, with mortars and heavy machine guns. [Isdarat]
Raqqa
SDF forces advancing toward Raqqa captured the village of Kheneizi, 28 km (17 miles) west of Qantara amid fierce battles with Daesh fighters. The villages of Tuwayla’a and Tel Al-Saman were also liberated. The SDF spokesman says liberating Raqqa will end war in Syria, adding that the Coalition is supporting the SDF effort all the way. [Hawar] [Hawar] [Hawar] [Qasioun]
Local sources say Daesh closed Internet cafes and established a new checkpoint in Raqqa. [Rudaw]
Daesh says it detonated an IED on a vehicle carrying SDF fighters east of Tal Abyad, killing or wounding the fighters inside. [Isdarat]
Daesh says it killed seven SDF fighters with IEDs south of Ain Eissa. [A3maq]
Daesh says it destroyed an SDF bulldozer near Meshahda village southwest of Ain Eissa. [Isdarat]
Northwest (Aleppo, Idlib)
Aleppo city
Activists in Aleppo describe airstrikes on eastern quarters of the city as frenzied. They say over 50 air raids targeted opposition held areas, killing countless civilians and destroying a hospital. Tens of casualties also are reported as Syrian army and affiliated armed groups initiate an attack to recover eastern neighborhoods of Aleppo under heavy air and artillery cover. Reports by SOHR speak of 60-85 civilians killed so far. [Rudaw] [Hawar] [Qasioun] [SyriaHR]
Fierce battles broke out near Jam’yat Al-Zahra west of Aleppo city when the Syrian army approached opposition positions in the city. The operation is backed by air attacks by Russian and Syrian warplanes. [ARA]
Russian army denied any air attacks in Aleppo, saying that no strike has taken place for 28 days now. Russian MOD spokesman says reports by Al-Jazeera TV, SOHR, and similar sources of attacks on hospitals in Aleppo are “lies.” [Dorar]
DaeshDaily comment. A similar report, with graphic video of a ruined hospital, was on NBC News Wednesday night.
Idlib
Syrian warplanes killed two children and wounded four civilians in an airstrike on Al-Habit village in south Idlib. Airstrikes on Khan Shaikhoun also left several civilian casualties, including women and children, while Syrian artillery shelling of Al-Taman’a village also left civilian casualties. [Qasioun]
Al-Bab
Turkish backed opposition units withdrew from Qabasin village, just north of Al-Bab city, after entering it earlier. Turkish artillery shelled the Daesh controlled village, killing a child and wounding two civilians. [Hawar] [ROJ]
Daesh says it forced the opposition groups out of the city. Daesh publishes photos of its terrorists in Qabasin. [DawaAlhaq] [Isdarat]
Daesh says it killed eight opposition fighters and captured two SUVs in battles in Qabasin. [A3maq]
Daesh says Turkish Army tanks shelled Qabasin. [A3maq]
Daesh publishes photos of fighting in Qabasin. [Isdarat]
SDF forces are advancing west from Manbij towards the eastern side of Al-Bab city, engaging Daesh in seven villages east of Qabasin under Coalition air cover, which killed over 50 terrorists. SDF and Turkish-backed opposition units are both racing to control Al-Bab city. [ARA]
Daesh says it shot and damaged an opposition group’s SUV near Jabal Al-Bir north of Al-Bab. [Isdarat]
Daesh issues a video of targeting a Turkish Army tank with a missile near Qadiran village north of Al-Bab on Tuesday. [A3maq]
Daesh publishes two photos of people watching one of Daesh’s videos in a mosque in Al-Bab city. [DawaAlhaq]
Azaz
Local sources say a battle initiated between two opposition groups in Shamarin, in the Shahba area, for unknown reasons, has gone on for two days now. [Hawar]
A land mine in Ta’ana village in Shahba killed one civilian and wounded another. [Hawar]
Afrin
YPG says it killed 5 Daesh terrorists while blocking its attacks on several villages in Afrin and Kobane. [PUKMedia]
Manbij
The YPG says that it finalized training and habilitating the forces of Manbij Military Council to defend the city. A statement by the party says its units in Manbij are moving east to join the SDF units advancing to liberate Raqqa. [Hawar]
DaeshDaily comment. This would seem to line up with the McGurk story above. However, notice the story under Al-Bab just above, in which SDF units are moving west to contest Al-Bab. Apparently we are asked to assume that all of those units are made up entirely of Arabs and other non-Kurds.
Central and West (Homs, Hama, etc.)
Local activists say Daesh executed two men in Aqirbat subdistrict east of Hama on charges of cooperating with opposition forces.
Local activists say Syrian and Russian warplanes attacked Tamina and Tebat Al-Imam among other villages with cluster bombs, while the opposition retaliated by shelling Soran, controlled by governmental forces. [ARA]
Fierce battles initiated near Al-Sha’er and Al-Muhur oilfields east of Homs, between Daesh and governmental forces when Daesh initiated an attack on the area. Casualties were reported in both sides without any advances made on the ground, local activists say. Russian “Caliber” missiles were fired from the Russian ships in Syrian waters on Daesh positions, killing several terrorists but also civilians. [ARA]
SS missiles fired by governmental forces wounded several civilians in Al-Waar neighborhood in Homs, while Syrian warplanes attacked Rusten and Farhaniya, leaving two civilian casualties. Daesh is battling government units in Al-Sawame’ area east of Tadmur. [Qasioun]
Daesh publishes 2 photos of its terrorists in Hama province. The photos show 3 terrorists watching a Daesh video on a laptop in a hideout. [Isdarat]
East (Deir Ez-Zor)
A guided missile fired by a Syrian Army unit killed several Daesh terrorists in a room near the perimeter of Deir Ez-Zor airport. [SyriaNow]
Daesh punished two major traders in Deir Ez-Zor by having them faced backwards and mounted on donkeys, while touring Mayadin city in Deir Ez-Zor. The “defamation” is due to their adulterating cooking oil they sold with cheaper ingredients. [SyriaHR]
South (Rif Damashq, Suwayda, Daraa, etc.)
Daesh publishes two photos of lashing a man south of Damascus after accusing him of using drugs. [DawaAlhaq]
OTHER MIDDLE EAST/NORTH AFRICA REPORTS
Neighboring countries
Saudi Arabia
Saudi authorities arrested 30 Syrians on charges of cooperating with Daesh, raising the tally of Syrian terrorism prisoners to 214. The Saudis also arrested two Iranians on charges related to terrorism, putting total Iranian arrestees for such charges at 6. [Dorar]
North Africa
Egypt
Daesh said on Tuesday its snipers killed an Egyptian Army service member at a security barrier in the Mahdiya area, south of Rafah. [Isdarat]
Daesh said on Tuesday it destroyed an Egyptian Army vehicle with an IED in south Sadout, in Rafah. [Isdarat]
A 17-year-old man was shot and wounded by unknown armed men near Masoura village south of Rafah. [ElWatan]
Medical sources say a policeman was wounded when security units were raiding terrorist hideouts south of Sheikh Zuweid. [VetoGate]
One soldier was killed and six others wounded when an IED exploded on their armored vehicle south of Sheikh Zuweid. [ElWatan]
Daesh said on Tuesday it destroyed an Egyptian Army bulldozer with an IED near Rayan Farm, south of Sheikh Zuweid. [Isdarat]
A security member was killed and two others wounded when terrorists attacked a security barrier south of Arish with RPG rockets. [VetoGate]
Daesh says it destroyed an Egyptian Army M113 armored vehicle with an IED near Al-Safa south of Arish city. [A3maq]
Here Daesh says it targeted the vehicle with two IEDs. [Isdarat]
Libya
An Italian website says the airstrikes that targeted Al-Qaeda fighters in south Libya on November 14th were conducted by 2 French airplanes. [Wasat]
Northeast
Benghazi Police issued a statement mourning one of its members who was killed in the Qawarsha area. [Wasat]
The LNA Special Forces spokesman says his troops are advancing in the Qawarsha area. He also says two of their soldiers were killed in the battles. [Wasat]
An LNA commander source says the LNA captured more buildings in the Qanfouda area. He also says one of his soldiers was wounded in the fighting. [Wasat]
Central coast
Daesh says it killed six GNA soldiers and wounded forty-two in battles in Sirte on Tuesday and Wednesday. [A3maq]
Here Daesh says it killed or wounded thirty-six GNA soldiers in the Giza area in Sirte on Tuesday and Wednesday. [Isdarat]
Daesh issues a video of a group of terrorists searching vehicles south of Sirte city. [A3maq]
DaeshDaily comment. Of course Daesh says this was an “Islamic State checkpoint”, while in fact it is a bunch of masked terrorists who stopped vehicle on the road for a short period of time, as any criminal gang would do. We have reported such checkpoints earlier. The idea is that the “caliphate” is still able to do its duties in the Sirte area.
A Misrata Hospital source says three GNA fighters were killed and eight wounded in the Giza area in Sirte on Tuesday evening. The hospital says one GNA soldier was killed and sixteen wounded in the battles against Daesh in Sirte on Wednesday. [Wasat] [Wasat]
A GNA military source says Daesh terrorists set several houses on fire in the Giza area. [Wasat]
A local official says a new shipment of books has arrived in schools on the outskirts of Sirte. [Wasat]
Tunisia
Daesh says it wounded twelve Tunisian soldiers with two IEDs on Maghila village in Kasserine on Monday. [A3maq]
The Tunisian Ministry of Defense said six soldiers were wounded by a land mine while conducting a search on Maghila Mountain in Kasserine.
Security units captured in Ben Arous a takfiri cell that was planning to assassinate political media and security personalities and blow up security buildings. The cell consists of 3 young men and 1 young woman who were communicating via Facebook and collecting donations for families of terrorists fighting in Syria and Tunisia. [Tunisien]
Other countries
Yemen
Daesh issues photos of its terrorists in the Qifa area in Bayda. [DawaAlhaq]
Afghanistan
Daesh says one of its suicide terrorists attacked a bus carrying Afghani Intelligence Service members in Kabul with an explosives vest, killing or wounding twenty of them. Daesh publishes a photo of the suicide terrorist. [DawaAlhaq] [Isdarat]
Afghan officials said a suicide bomber riding a motorbike targeted a minibus carrying a unit that provides security for senior government officials and reports to the presidential palace.
They say four members of the force and three civilians were killed, and more than a dozen people were wounded. They also say the victims were not intelligence officers, nor did the bomber board the bus. [LATimes]
SOCIAL MEDIA
Videos of the Day
Mosul
A foreign volunteer doctor saving the life of an infant who was suffocating from a Daesh shell. Daesh is targeting the areas that people are trying to leave in east Mosul. [Sumaria]
DaeshDaily comment. This doctor, working for nothing in a dangerous place, is a true hero.
Men from the Mosul area waiting in line at a barber shop in an area liberated from Daesh [Sumaria]
Civilians getting killed or wounded by Daesh shelling in Hay Al-Zahra in east Mosul [Rudaw]
Iraqi forces in Hay Al-Zahra [Mawsleya] [MoD]
Iraqi forces in Hay Al-Qadisiya in Mosul [Iraqia] [Mawsleya]
Iraqi forces in Hay Al-Bakr and Hay Al-Arbajiya in Mosul [Iraqia]
Iraqi forces in Hay Al-Intisar in Mosul [YouTube]
Rapid Intervention units fighting near Mosul [YouTube]
A Daesh explosives cache found southwest of Mosul [YouTube]
Hamdaniya
Iraqi forces in the Nimrud area [Iraqia]
Videos of the destruction caused by Daesh in Nimrud [Mawsleya] [Ghad] [NRT]
A church badly damaged by Daesh in Bartella, Hamdaniya. [Yalla]
Tal Afar
A video of PMFs destroying a Daesh vehicle bomb near Tal Afar [Mayadeen]
A video of PMF units in battles near Tal Afar [YouTube]
Other
A video of people of liberated areas in Ninewa welcoming Iraqi forces [YouTube]
Videos of IAA helicopters attacking Daesh targets in the Ninewa area [MoD] [MoD]
A video of a Daesh sniper captured by Peshmerga fighters [YouTube]
Videos of Peshmerga fighters in a battle with Daesh [Nawa] [Nawa] [Nawa]
A video of a Coalition airstrike destroying a Daesh building [MoD]
DAESH MEDIA
Daesh audio newsletter for today [Bayan]
Daesh issues a propaganda video about its operations in the Rutba area. The video shows them killing Iraqi soldiers and executing two PMF fighters using a heavy machine gun. [DawaAlhaq]
Daesh issues another anthem in French. [Isdarat]
Daesh issues infographics about the results of Mosul battles during the last 30 days. [Isdarat]
Another Daesh propaganda video [YouTube]
