November 21, 2016
Arba’in Ceremony
Sheikh Suleiman Abu Haraz
Today’s Major Developments
Biden gives Al-Abadi a call. [..]
Millions of Shia arrive in Kerbala for Arba’in. [..]
IAA unleashes deadly strike on Daesh training camp in Rawa. [..]
Daesh executes 15 in Hawija for helping people leave. [..]
Iraqi forces extend reach to a few more neighborhoods, as Daesh fights back. [..]
Total displaced from Mosul reaches 68,000. [..]
Ministry of Culture says Daesh destroyed 70% of historic Nimrud. [..]
Turks and opposition militia allies in Syria attack Manbij. [..]
REPORTS FROM IRAQ
NATIONAL NEWS
US Vice President Joe Biden called Prime Minister Al-Abadi and praised Iraqi forces’ progress in Ninewa and said the US will continue its support to Iraq in the war against terrorism, according to a statement from Abadi’s office. Biden also stressed on the US support for Iraq unity and sovereignty, and praised the coordination between Iraqi forces and the Peshmerga. [Mada] [Rudaw]
Prime Minister Abadi says in a televised speech that some people are trying to insult Iraqi people. He also asks Arab media not to ignite sectarian strife in Iraq. [Mada] [Sumaria] [Sumaria]
In that context, Iraq’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs started legal procedures to sue the Saudi but London-based Al-Sharq Al-Awsat newspaper for publishing a report that insulted Iraqi Shia. The newspaper had issued a “report” claiming that WHO said unwanted pregnancies are occurring during Shia ceremonies. The WHO refuted the report and said it didn’t publish anything like that. The newspaper withdrew the report later and apologized. [Mada]
WHO said it saw the report on Friday and refuted it the same day, but Al-Sharq Al-Awsat insisted on publishing it. WHO threatened to sue the newspaper, which later on Sunday published the WHO statement that refuted the report. The newspaper didn’t apologize and just said it cut its relationship with its correspondent in Baghdad.
DaeshDaily comment. The report is another example of the Wahhabi propaganda that portrays the Shia as an infidel cult. This propaganda is what Daesh has used to “legitimize” its terrorist attacks on Shia.
The Kerbala Governor says millions of people have arrived in the city for the Arba’in ceremony. [Sumaria]
The Coalition says it conducted 8 airstrikes on Daesh positions in Iraq, in or near Mosul (3), Kasik (1), and Tal Afar (1); and Baiji (2) and Hawija (1)). [InherentResolve]
BAGHDAD
Security-related incidents reported
The Baghdad Operations Command (BOC) says a terror cell planning to attack Shia pilgrims in Baghdad was dismantled; a large quantity of explosives was found. [Baghdadia]
East (Sadr City, New Baghdad, etc.)
A Ministry of Interior (MoI) source says one person was killed and five wounded when a sticky IED exploded under a small bus in Mashtal. [Mada]
Daesh said on Saturday that it detonated an IED on Shia pilgrims in the Mashtal area. [A3maq]
MoI spokesman Saad Maan says a sticky bomb attached to a minibus wounded three civilians in Sadr City. [Sumaria]
Daesh says it detonated an IED on a “Shia bus” in Sadr city. [A3maq]
Daesh says it killed one PMF fighter and wounded others with an IED on Palestine Street on Sunday. [A3maq]
Southeast (Mada’in, etc.)
An MoI source says two people were killed and nine wounded when an IED exploded near a soccer field in Mada’in. [Mada]
An MoI source says a mortar shell killed two and wounded four civilians in Nahrawan. [Mada]
South (Dora, Yusufiyah, Mahmudiya, etc.)
An MoI source says an IED exploded in Aamel neighborhood, killing two and wounding five civilians. [Mada]
A Police source says one Tribal Mobilization fighter was killed and another wounded when unidentified armed men attacked a TM checkpoint in Al-Rasheed subdistrict. [Sumaria]
West (Ghazaliya, Abu Ghraib, etc.)
The MOD says 54th army brigade arrested Salam Hashim Shallal, a wanted terrorist, in Abu Ghraib. [Harbi]
A security source says security units in Ameriya arrested a tribal leader from Anbar who had pledged allegiance to Daesh. [Ghad]
Total Baghdad incidents reported: 10 (Includes only incidents reported)
Total IED incidents reported: 5
ANBAR
Falluja
Anbar Police say that one of seven persons involved in the car bomb attack on a wedding in Ameriyat Al-Falluja is a policeman at the Al-Faris police station in the city. The arrestees confessed to preparing the car in a remote place outside the city. [Maalomah]
DaeshDaily comment. A tribal leader from Anbar says many Daesh terrorists in Anbar are being released by security personnel after paying large bribes. He says some who were captured during battles were released because corrupt investigators said they were not on the “wanted” list. He says these officers are becoming millionaires because of such bribes. He also says the two Daesh suicide terrorists who attacked Falluja last week had been endorsed by local officials. He says the terrorists gathered explosives for several days and no one paid them any attention. Corruption is more dangerous to the future of Iraq than Daesh. A bribery scheme on this scale, with such large security implications, demands a real investigation into who paid what to whom.
Ramadi
Daesh said on Saturday that it detonated a parked vehicle bomb on a police gathering in Hay Al-Tameem in Ramadi city. Daesh says thirteen people were killed and others wounded in the attack. [A3maq] [Isdarat]
Rutba/Western Anbar
A commander in the local Tribal Mobilization force in Haditha says army helicopters attacked a Daesh training camp near Rawa, killing over 50 terrorists including the Saudi Daesh leader, Abu Salman. [Maalomah]
A member of the Security Committee in the Anbar Provincial Council says 200 families left their houses in Rahaliya after “unknown fronts” arrested tens of civilians in the subdistrict. He says Anbar Operations Command should prevent any groups from entering the area. [Sumaria]
SALAHUDDIN
Shirqat
A member of the Salahuddin Provincial Council says security forces finished checking 750 people from Shirqat who were moved earlier to a displacement camp in Al-Alam and allowed them to return to their houses. He also says 6 Daesh collaborators were captured. [Mada]
The Mayor of Shirqat said on Sunday that the Salahuddin Operations Command has moved the residents of Hay Al-Askeri to Al-Alam under heavy security because they collaborated with Daesh and hid the corpses of Daesh terrorists. During the incident in question, a group of Daesh terrorists established a checkpoint in Shirqat and killed five PMF fighters. He says security forces killed 5 terrorists in Hay Al-Askeri, but the residents hid the dead terrorists’ bodies. [Sumaria]
Daesh said that on Sunday Iraqi forces tried to regain positions they lost on Saturday near Al-Ain Al-Baidha south of Shirqat, but it stopped the attack, destroying a Humvee and capturing weapons. [A3maq]
Daesh had said on Saturday that its terrorists captured the road between Al-Naml and Al-Ain Al-Baidha villages [A3maq]; that it captured the road between Al-Naml and Khanuqa village [A3maq]; that it conducted a suicide attack on PMFs near Khanuqa village [A3maq]; that it captured 5 PMF military positions south of Shirqat. [A3maq]
Daesh issues a video of an attack near Al-Ain Al-Baidha village on Friday [A3maq], and of battles near Khanuqa. [DawaAlhaq]
Daesh published photos of battles in the area [DawaAlhaq], and a photo of a Chechen suicide terrorist who attacked Iraqi forces in the area. [Isdarat]
Tooz
Daesh says its snipers killed four PMF fighters near Allas Oilfield in the Zarqa area. [A3maq]
DIYALA
Baquba/southeast Diyala
The Dijla Operations commander says his troops confiscated 5 suicide vests from a Daesh guesthouse west of Baquba. [Sumaria]
Muqdadiya/Abu Saida
The Security Committee of the Diyala Provincial Council says a joint force destroyed two guesthouses in Muqdadiya and located weapons and explosives caches. [Ghad]
Northern Diyala (Kifri, Khanaqin, etc.)
Sadiya local council in Khanaqin requests the government to clear the areas of Imam Wais and Himrin basin of Daesh cells spread around the orchards area. [Ghad]
A government source says the armed group that kidnapped two Peshmerga fighters from Kifri in Baghdad released them after their family paid $60,000 dollars. [Mada]
KIRKUK
Hawija
An Arab CoR member from Kirkuk says Daesh executed fifteen former security members and other people in Hawija after accusing them of helping civilians to leave Hawija. He says the delay in Hawija liberation affects both the Kirkuk and Salahuddin governorates because the Hawija District is still used as a launch pad for attacks. [Mada]
NINEWA
Kuwaiti Red Crescent is extending wide-scale efforts to assist refugees and IDPs in various areas of Mosul and Kurdistan. The organization operated actively in Hasan Sham camp near Mosul, while relief materials were provided to Syrian refugees in Kurdish camps. [ARA]
Mosul
Mosul liberation campaign
IWMC says CTS units liberated Ikha’, Aden, and the water project area in east Mosul. The CTS killed Marwan Hamid Saleh Al-Hawali, a Daesh leader in the Aden neighborhood. [ARA]
Daesh says it conducted a suicide attack on Iraqi forces on the “outskirts” of Hay Aden, killing 30 soldiers and destroying 8 Humvees. [A3maq]
Daesh says its terrorists captured a Humvee, weapons, and ammunition, in an attack on Iraqi forces near Hay Aden. [A3maq]
Daesh issued on Saturday a video of fighting near Hay Aden. [A3maq]
DaeshDaily comment. Notice that the these media “reports” are about events “near” and “on the outskirts of” the Aden neighborhood. They sound victorious until you remember that the government has already captured Hay Aden.
Daesh says it killed at least 20 Iraqi soldiers and destroyed 6 Humvees in a suicide attack near Hay Al-Tahrir in northeast Mosul. [A3maq]
Daesh says one of its Syrian suicide terrorists attacked Iraqi forces near Tal Al-Tahrir in northeast Mosul, killing 20, wounding others, and destroying 2 ammunition storehouses and 6 Humvees. Daesh says another Syrian suicide terrorist attacked Iraqi forces with a vehicle bomb near Hay Aden, killing or wounding 27 service members and destroying 8 Humvees. Daesh says it captured a Humvee, weapons, and ammunition after the attack. Here Daesh says its snipers killed ten Iraqi Army service members in eastern parts of Mosul city. [DawaAlhaq]
Daesh publishes a photo of the Palestinian suicide terrorist who attacked Iraqi forces near Hay Al-Tahrir with a vehicle bomb. [Isdarat]
Daesh said on Sunday that one of its foreign suicide terrorists attacked Iraqi forces with a vehicle bomb near Hay Al-Samah in east Mosul, killing 25 soldiers, wounding others, and destroying 12 Humvees and a vehicle carrying satellite broadcasting equipment. Daesh also said it killed or wounded fourteen Iraqi soldiers and destroyed 5 Humvees and a bulldozer in battles in different areas in east Mosul. [DawaAlhaq]
Daesh publishes photos of Iraqi service members targeted by its snipers in Hay Al-Samah. [DawaAlhaq]
Ninewa Operations command says 16th army division units liberated Orta Kharab village north of Mosul. [Mada]
IWMC says 16th army division liberated Abbasiya village in east Mosul. [Mawazin]
Daesh issued on Sunday a video of battles in Hay Al-Intisar in east Mosul. [A3maq]
Daesh publishes photos of battles near Hay Al-Intisar. [DawaAlhaq]
CTS units are searching several liberated neighborhoods for car bombs equipped by Daesh. Two were reported blocked today by the CTS from reaching their targets, but one wounded a woman. [IraqPress]
Doctors Without Borders says it established two field hospitals equipped with surgery units in north Mosul and Qayara. [Sumaria]
A security source in Mosul says Daesh ordered its commands to withdraw into the center of Mosul city. [Maalomah]
A security source in Mosul says Coalition warplanes destroyed the Fourth Bridge connecting the two sides of Mosul. The planes attacked a Daesh checkpoint on the bridge, killing 4 terrorists and wounding several others. [BasNews]
Daesh says the Fourth Bridge in Mosul city is out of service after a midnight Coalition bombing. [A3maq]
Daesh issues a video of the bridge after the airstrike. [A3maq]
Daesh said on Friday seven people were killed and fourteen wounded in a Coalition airstrikes on Hay Al-Tanak in Mosul city. [A3maq]
Daesh issues a video of the results of the airstrike. [A3maq]
Daesh says its snipers killed eight Iraqi soldiers in different areas in east Mosul. [A3maq]
MOD says 9th army division killed the person responsible for photographic documentation at Daesh’s news service, A3maq. Three cameras packed with photos were found with the slain photographer. [Forat]
The MOD says 9th army division shot down a Daesh drone over Mosul. [PressIraq]
Other Mosul military developments
A security source says Daesh executed twelve ex-members of the security forces in the north bus station in Mosul. [BasNews]
An officer in Ninewa Operations Command says Daesh detonated two vehicle bombs in Muharibin neighborhood in northeast Mosul, killing fourteen civilians and wounding eight others; it kidnapped 10 young men and took them to an unknown location. [BasNews]
Iraqi Red Crescent says 1200 new persons escaped east Mosul and were transferred to refugee camps. [Anadolu]
The UN says 8,500 people left their homes in Mosul during the last three days, raising the total number of displaced people to 68,500. [Rudaw]
Ministry of Immigration and Displacement says 2,427 refugees returned to their homes in Ninewa from Jada’a and Debaga camps in Qayara and Makhmur. [Sumaria]
A KRG official says more than 100 Yazidi prisoners have been freed from Daesh since the start of the Ninewa Liberation operation. [BasNews]
A member of the Ninewa Provincial Council says Daesh moved prisoners from Al-Salam Hospital, which it uses as a prison in east Mosul, to an unknown location. [Sumaria]
Conditions in Mosul
Ministry of Electricity says power supply has returned to liberated areas of Ninewa. [IraqPress]
Daesh issues a video of its educational activities for children in Mosul. [A3maq]
Daesh published photos of distributing its Naba’ magazine in Mosul. [DawaAlhaq]
Daesh publishes photos of the “normal life” at a market in Mosul. [Isdarat]
Shura/Hammam Alil
IWMC says army helicopters supporting IFP units killed 25 terrorists in attacks on Hammam Alil, Adhba, and a third location and destroyed several vehicles, weapons, and 3 tunnels. [IraqPress]
Daesh issued a video on Saturday of targeting an Iraqi forces’ construction shovel truck near Adhba village northwest of Hammam Al-Alil. [A3maq]
The IFP says it shot down a Daesh drone north of Adhba village. [Sumaria]
The IFP commander says that forces are ready to recover Mosul airport and Gazlani barracks. [PressIraq]
IFP deployed its units around the Tilal Abu Said area, and is waiting for orders to recapture it. [Forat]
Daesh says one of its suicide terrorists attacked a PMF’s gathering near Hammam Al-Alil Intersection on Sunday, killing ten fighters, wounding others, and destroying 3 Humvees. [DawaAlhaq]
Daesh issued a video on Saturday of battles near Omar Al-Farouq village, east of Hammam Al-Alil. [A3maq]
Daesh says an Iraqi Army tank “exploded” east of Hammam Al-Alil. [A3maq]
Qayara
A statement by IAA says army helicopters attacked Al-Kafur and Lazaga villages, killing 10 Daesh terrorists and destroying vehicles and weapon caches. [PressIraq]
Daesh said on Saturday it captured Imam Gharbi village south of Qayara. [A3maq]
Daesh had said it killed eleven Iraqi service members, including a colonel, in an attack on the village. [A3maq]
Nineveh Plain
Iraq’s Deputy Minister of Culture says Daesh destroyed 70% of the Nimrud historical city. [Rudaw]
Ninewa Operations command says 9th army division liberated Al-Salam, Salamiya, Omar Kan, and Humaira villages, North of Nimrud. Tawajna village is currently under government siege. [Mada] [Rudaw] [Mawazin] [AIN]
Northwest (Tal Afar, Sinjar)
Security Committee of Mosul Provincial Council says Daesh commanders have escaped Mosul to Tal Afar, adding that Mosul hospital is filled with wounded Daesh fighters. [Ghad]
A Daesh commander arrested by the army says the defense of Tal Afar was supervised by Al-Baghdadi in person. [PressIraq]
A local source says, according to intelligence information, the Daesh leader, Awwad Baghdadi is moving secretly between Baaj, Tal Afar, and the Syrian border. [Sumaria]
IWMC says army helicopters killed 15 terrorists and destroyed several vehicles, weapons, and a tunnel near Tal Afar airport.
The PMF organization says its units found a vehicle bomb and tunnel digging equipment left by Daesh near the Tal Afar airport. [Buratha]
Daesh says it shot down an “American” MQ-9 bombing drone near Tal Afar Airport. [A3maq]
Daesh issues a video of shooting down the drone. [A3maq]
Daesh issued a video on Sunday of targeting a PMF bulldozer with a rocket near Tal Afar Airport. [A3maq]
Daesh issued a video on Saturday of the results of “American” bombing on Tal Afar. [A3maq]
Daesh publishes photos of battles and mortars shelling near Tal Afar Airport. [DawaAlhaq]
Daesh issued on Sunday a video of “normal life” in Tal Afar. [A3maq]
Daesh says it killed two “PKK” members and wounded four others in mortar shelling near Sukainiya village west of Sinjar city. [A3maq]
South (Baaj, Hatra)
Local sources in Mosul say US Special Forces unit executed an airdrop in Baaj, arresting 7 top Daesh commanders. [IraqPress]
KURDISTAN
Masoud Barzani, in a written statement, called on Kurdish parties to select a person to lead the region of Kurdistan in his place. He also called for replacement of the Kurdish parliament speaker. [ARA]
The KDP issued a statement saying it is ready to start dialogue with all parties. [Rudaw]
DaeshDaily comment. If you have followed Barzani’s various statements on the KRG leadership crisis, you probably won’t take this one at face value. The real purpose may be to show that the opposition has no credible alternative to him and to galvanize the KDP to re-energize its support and keep him in office. Barzani’s term ended some time ago, as did an extension voted by the Kurdish parliament, and he is term-limited, but he has continued to exercise power as if this doesn’t matter. To Gorran and the PUK, it does matter. The parliament speaker he wants replaced is a Gorran member, who would have succeeded to the presidency if the constitution had not been violated by the KDP. Eliminating him could open the door for a KDP speaker, a Barzani son perhaps, who could then succeed his father and preserve the dynasty. Or the further “dialogue” could just prolong the crisis and thereby prolong Barzani’s “tenure.” The US has prioritized the war effort and treated Barzani as the President despite his lack of legitimacy, while standing up to his various independence maneuvers, but the demise of Daesh in Ninewa could produce a more normal set of KRG circumstances in which he will be forced to deal with his political opponents on a more democratic basis. As for the KDP, it is not going to agree to anything that its leader doesn’t want.
A Kurdish security source says Asayesh (Kurdish security) forces killed 4 Daesh terrorists in Halabja during a search campaign for a terror group that entered the city. Another 2 blew themselves up when besieged. [PUKMedia]
SOUTHERN IRAQ
Basra
The MoI says security units captured a man wanted on terrorism charges in Basra. [AIN]
REPORTS FROM TURKEY
Istanbul is hosting a “Stop the bloodshed in Iraq” exhibition, focusing on alleged violations against the Sunni population in Iraq. The Legal Coalition for Iraq along with the official Turkish humanitarian agency (IHH), organized the exhibition. Organizers say that the violations against Sunnis have reached unprecedented levels, by both governmental and non-governmental parties, and sometimes security forces. [Arabi21]
DaeshDaily comment. This isn’t even a Sunni sectarianism supported by the government of a Sunni country. It would have been really great if such exhibitions were hosted when Daesh started beheading Sunni Iraqi people and throwing them of the roofs of buildings.
REPORTS FROM SYRIA
The Coalition says it conducted 13 airstrikes on Daesh positions in Syria, in or near Ain Eissa (6), Raqqa (3), Deir Ez-Zor (3), and Abu Kamal (1). [InherentResolve]
Northeast (Hasaka, Raqqa)
Hasaka
A refugee Iraqi family suffered serious injuries when Daesh war remains exploded due to children playing around them in Tal Huwais. [Hawar]
SOHR says an IED targeted Kurdish units on the road to Al-Hawl. No account of casualties is available. [SyriaHR]
PYD self-management military police is looking for young men who have not joined military service and has made several arrests. Arrests were made mainly in Arisha village west of Hasaka. [ARA]
Turkish units entered Hasaka in the Ain Dewar and Haji Matari border villages. Reports speak of excavation works by the Turkish side to divert water channels into Turkey. [ARA]
Raqqa
SDF EOD units are clearing land mines and IEDs planted by Daesh in Tal Al-Saman village. Over 300 mines were removed from perimeter and roads, where the next step is clearing citizen’s houses. [Hawar]
Daesh said on Saturday that five people were killed by an “American” airstrike on their house in Tal Al-Saman village north of Raqqa. [A3maq]
Local activists say Coalition warplanes killed nine civilians in an airstrike on Salihiya village north of Raqqa. The planes also attacked Ba’as village, killing one civilian and wounding another. [ARA]
Daesh says six people from the same family and three workers were killed in an “American airstrike” on a cotton factory in the Salihiya area north of Raqqa. [A3maq]
Daesh issues a video of the results of the airstrike. [A3maq]
Daesh publishes photos of targeting SDF (“PKK”) positions east of the Tishrin Dam with mortars. [DawaAlhaq]
Daesh issued a video on Saturday of targeting a SDF construction shovel truck with a rocket near Al-Haba, southeast of Ain Eissa. [A3maq]
Daesh issued on Sunday a video of the “normal life” in Raqqa. [A3maq]
Northwest (Aleppo, Idlib)
Aleppo city
Artillery shelling between the two battling sides in Aleppo amounted to 76 dead and 80 wounded. Syrian air attacks killed at least 50 of them. Opposition bombardment of western Aleppo areas killed eight children and wounded 27 among 36 civilians as shells hit Al-Furqan school. The opposition claims that it destroyed a Syrian armored vehicle and recovered several locations in the Sheikh Said area that it lost yesterday. [Hawar] [Qasioun]
Syrian Air Force destroyed 10 Daesh vehicles in Deir Hafir east of Aleppo. [SyriaNow]
Al-Bab
Turkish-supported opposition forces executed a citizen for attempting to prevent them from looting his house, say local sources in Qabasin. Local activists accuse opposition forces of destroying 400 houses in Qabasin. By Hawar’s account, the opposition forces formed a military council to run the city after Daesh’s withdrawal two days ago. The Turkish air force executed airstrikes on 17 Daesh and 4 PYD targets. [Hawar] [Hawar] [ARA] [Dorar]
DaeshDaily comment. This story seems confusing because of its multiple sources. Hawar is pro-SDF/YPG; ARA is KRG-Kurdish; Dorar is closer to the opposition groups. Qabasin is close to strategically important Al-Bab. Daesh was ejected there by the opposition groups, then came back in. Despite the inference in the report that Daesh has now been fully removed, it seems more likely that it has not lost the entire place. This would explain the ten stories that follow, all determined statements from Daesh that they have not yet been defeated (allowing for a little of the usual exaggeration).
Daesh issues a video of Turkish bombing on Qabasin and Baza’a villages near Al-Bab. [A3maq]
Daesh issues a video (Saturday) of Turkish Army tanks shelling Qabasin. [A3maq]
Daesh said opposition groups, supported by Coalition bombing and Turkish Army shelling, attacked Qabasin. Daesh says the opposition used American Humvees in the attack. Daesh said it stopped the attack after hours of heavy battles, destroying 2 Humvees and damaging 2 SUVs. Daesh says this was the fourth failed opposition attack on Qabasin in the last few days. [A3maq]
Daesh publishes photos of targeting Turkish Army and opposition groups with mortars near Qabasin. [DawaAlhaq]
Daesh publishes photos of battles with opposition groups and the Turkish Army northwest of Al-Bab. [Isdarat]
Daesh says it conducted two suicide attacks on Turkish troops and opposition fighters in Olan village, north of Al-Bab. [A3maq]
Daesh issues a video of one of the suicide attacks. [A3maq]
Daesh said one of its Syrian suicide terrorists attacked Turkish Army and opposition groups in Kafr village northwest of Al-Bab with a vehicle bomb, killing more than fifteen soldiers and fighters, wounding others, and damaging several vehicles. [Isdarat]
Daesh publishes two aerial photos of the attack. [DawaAlhaq]
Daesh issued a video on Saturday of targeting a Turkish Army tank with a rocket near Hazwan village, west of Al-Bab. [A3maq]
Daesh said on Sunday that a child was killed and twelve other people wounded by Turkish Army tank shelling on Al-Bab city. [A3maq]
Manbij
Manbij Military Council says it destroyed a Turkish tank while confronting a Turkish backed attack on western villages of Manbij. Battles are continuing between Council forces and Turkish backed opposition in several villages, including Sheikh Nassir. Turkish warplanes attacked the village earlier killing one MMC fighter and wounding another, while Turkish artillery shelling of Sheikh Nassir and two other villages caused material damage. Turkish warplanes initiated 6 air raids on the city in addition to several reconnaissance missions. Opposition forces say that they have already recovered Sheikh Nassir village from the SDF. [Hawar] [Hawar] [Hawar] [Hawar] [Hawar] [Hawar] [Hawar] [Hawar] [ARA]
Central and West (Homs, Hama, etc.)
Fighting broke out between Daesh and government troops backed by air cover north of Hama. The Syrian air force attacked Latamna, and Morik. No account of results of battles is available. [Qasioun]
Opposition forces shelled Al-Zahra neighborhood in Homs killing four and wounding eight civilians. This came in response to government’s attacks on Al-Waar neighborhood controlled by the opposition earlier. Government’s shelling of Al-Waar killed one fighter, while Jubb Al-Jarrah was attacked by the Syrian forces amidst battles in the area. [ZamanAlWasl] [SyriaHR]
Daesh published photos of battles with the Syrian Army near Al-Muhur Oilfield. [Isdarat]
Daesh says Syrian Army units, supported by Shia militias and Russian airpower, attacked the Huwaisis area east of Homs. Daesh said it stopped the attack, killing thirteen soldiers and fighters, and wounding thirty, and destroying a T62 tank, and forcing the rest to retreat. [Isdarat]
East (Deir Ez-Zor)
Daesh arrested 200 persons in Mayadin city in Deir Ez-Zor on charges of violating Islamic law. All were released after paying a monetary fine. [Qasioun]
A local activist says battles continued between the Syrian Army and allied militias against Daesh near Deir Ez-Zor Airport. Warplanes targeted Jufra and other areas near the airport. Daesh shelled the government controlled Joura area in Deir Ez-Zor city, wounding four civilians. [ARA]
A local activist says Daesh raided and closed several internet cafes in Mayadin and Albu Kamal, and arrested several civilians. Tens of Iraqi families arrived from Mosul to areas east of Deir Ez-Zor, while Daesh emir families arrived to areas west of Deir Ez-Zor. [ARA]
Daesh issued on Saturday a video of six Syrian soldiers who surrendered to its terrorists near Deir Ez-Zor Airport. [A3maq]
Daesh issued a video on Saturday of battles near Al-Muhur Gas Company north of Tadmur. [A3maq]
South (Rif Damashq, Suwayda, Daraa, etc.)
Opposition units shelled the city of Harasta, in suburban Damascus, with 25 rockets, killing four civilians and wounding twenty. [SyriaNow]
SOHR says battles between Daesh and Islamic opposition forces initiated in Al-Lajat area in northeast Daraa leaving one fighter of the opposition units killed by an IED. [SyriaHR]
A local activist says opposition groups stopped a Khaled Army, a Daesh affiliate, attack near Lajat, killing or wounding more than 8 terrorists. [ARA]
OTHER MIDDLE EAST/NORTH AFRICA REPORTS
North Africa
Egypt
Egypt issued a statement condemning the Daesh crime of beheading Sheikh Suleiman Abu Haraz, a 98-year-old Sufi sheikh in Sinai. Daesh had published photos of beheading the sheikh and another victim on Friday. [AfriGate] [ElWatan]
DaeshDaily comment. Only Daesh terrorists have the “courage” to kill a 98-year-old man. Daesh wants media attention desperately. This crime will anger the vast majority of the people of Egypt, and especially Sinai. However, Daesh doesn’t care about the majority. Daesh wants to recruit the takfiris, all over the world, who think such ugly crimes fit their psychopathic and sociopathic tendencies.
Security forces allowed the residents of three villages south of Sheikh Zuweid to return to their houses after securing the area. [ElWatan]
Daesh said that it destroyed an Egyptian Army M113 armored vehicle with an IED southwest of Sheikh Zuweid on Friday. [A3maq]
Eyewitnesses say warplanes are flying extensively over several areas south and west of Arish. [ElWatan]
Eyewitnesses say 3 armed men kidnapped a civilian near a fish market in Arish city. [ElWatan]
A medical source says two civilians were wounded by unknown armed men in Arish city on Sunday [ElWatan]
Libya
Northeast
Three people, including two children, were killed and twenty-six wounded, including women and children, when a car bomb exploded near Al-Jala’ Hospital in Benghazi, according to the hospital’s spokesperson. [AfriGate] [Wasat]
The LNA Special Forces say they stopped a suicide attack with a vehicle bomb in the Qanfouda area and forced the suicide terrorist to flee, leaving the vehicle. [AfriGate]
An LNA spokesman says military reinforcements arrived in west Benghazi Military Sector. He says the LNA is awaiting orders to capture the remaining areas in Busnaib and Qanfouda. [Wasat]
The LNA Special Forces says it found the bodies of eleven people in a grave in the Busnaib area. [Libya24]
Daesh said on Saturday that it killed two LNA soldiers and detonated an IED in battles in the Busnaib area west of Benghazi. [A3maq]
Central coast
A local official says 5,000 families have returned to their houses in the Sirte area. 18,000 families had left their houses in Sirte. [Wasat]
The GNA military says its troops captured 15 more houses in the Giza area and killed 3 Daesh snipers. [Wasat]
The GNA military issued a statement mourning the death of one of its commanders, who was killed in the Giza area. [Libya24]
A security source says a local Daesh commander and 10 other terrorists were killed in the Giza area on Sunday. [Wasat]
The Misrata Hospital says two GNA soldiers were killed and seventeen wounded in the latest battles in Sirte. [Wasat]
Daesh said on Sunday that it killed five GNA soldiers and wounded seven others in battles in the Giza area. [A3maq]
Daesh had claimed it killed or wounded twenty-four GNA soldiers in battles on Thursday and Friday. [A3maq]
A GNA military source says four women from foreign countries surrendered to GNA troops in the Giza area. [Wasat]
Other countries
Afghanistan
The final count of the suicide attack on a Shia mosque in Kabul is 30 killed and 80 wounded. Taliban denied any involvement, while nobody claimed responsibility so far. [Anadolu] [Reuters]
The Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a statement condemning the terrorist attack in Afghanistan. [Anadolu]
Daesh says one of its suicide terrorists blew up his 16kg explosive vest in a Shia mosque in Kabul, killing or wounding 200 people. [Isdarat]
Daesh publishes a photo of the suicide terrorist. [Isdarat]
DaeshDaily comment. We have no one more to “thank” for this blind hatred but the continuous Wahhabi media machine attack on anyone who is different.
Pakistan
Daesh said on Sunday that it shot and killed three Pakistani Border Guards and a policeman in Quetta city. [A3maq]
SOCIAL MEDIA
A local activist says the man who brought the Daesh vehicle bomb to Ramadi city is the first cousin of the Anbar Police Chief. [Facebook]
The Chief had said earlier that he cut ties with members of his family, including his own brothers, because they joined Daesh.
Videos of the Day
Muslims and Christians
The Arba’in ceremony in Kerbala [Sumaria]
Shabak people celebrating Arba’in in the Nineveh Plain for the first time in years [Sumaria]
A Christian Iraqi celebrates Arba’in in Sweden. He says this is to repay the Iraqi Muslims who raised the crosses on Ninewa churches again. [Facebook]
The liberated Al-Tahira Church in Qaraqosh, one of the biggest churches in the Middle East. Daesh had turned it into a shooting range. [NRT]
Iraqi Army units in Mar Behnam Monastery in Nimrud [MoD]
Iraqi forces in Omar Kan village near Nimrud [MoD]
East Mosul
A displaced man being treated by the Iraqi Army for wounds sustained from Daesh shelling near Mosul [YouTube]
A doctor from Mosul who was killed by Daesh while he was treating people near Mosul [Mawsleya]
Iraqi forces in Hay Al-Tahrir in Mosul [Afaq]
Iraqi forces in Hay Aden in Mosul [MoD]
A News 10 video shows a Daesh lie. A3maq showed a video of a vehicle bomb charging at Iraqi forces near Mosul. News 10 reporters say the same vehicle was destroyed by Iraqi forces. [News 10]
South and west of Mosul
PMF fighters destroying a charging Daesh vehicle bomb from a close-range, southwest of Mosul [YouTube]
IFP troops in Adhba village [YouTube]
Daesh terrorists captured by Iraqi forces near Hammam Al-Alil [Al-Aan]
Videos of Iraqi forces in Tal Afar Airport [YouTube] [Iraqia]
Other people and places
A Yazidi child saying Daesh terrorists tried to rape her many times after kidnapping her and her mother. [Al-Aan]
Recommended good read: ”Friend or Foe? Sometimes Hard to Tell in War for Mosul.” [ABCNews]
An Iraqi Military Intelligence Service video from areas under Daesh control in Mosul [MoD]
IAF airstrikes on Daesh targets in Ninewa [MoD]
DAESH MEDIA
Daesh audio newsletter for today [Bayan]
Daesh audio newsletter for Sunday in English [Bayan]
Another Daesh propaganda video [Isdarat]
