November 23, 2015
REPORTS FROM IRAQ
Among today’s major developments:
Lack of any follow-up reports on Iraqi forces in Ramadi city for three days raises doubts.
Daesh counter-attacks target two major Salahuddin oil fields and Siniya.
Deputy Secretary of State holds high-level meeting with top Kurdish political leaders.
ANBAR
The Anbar GC chairman says that IEDs sown by Daesh in the areas around Ramadi and Falluja have delayed progress in clearing Daesh from the area, as well as Daesh’s use of civilians as human shields, adding that the operations continue nevertheless. [Mada]
Ramadi
Iraqi forces captured the Hay Al-Hurriya area, which was the last part of the Kilo 5 area under Daesh control, a security source says. There were 39 Daesh members reported killed and multiple vehicle bombs destroyed. [Mada]
A security source says the Coalition conducted an airstrike on Daesh headquarters in Tameem in Ramadi, killing many Daesh terrorists, destroying weapons and an explosives cache. [Mada]
IFP forces conducted raids south of Ramadi, arresting three members of Daesh’s so-called Islamic Police, an IFP commander says. [Baghdadia]
North of the city, the Iraqi Army destroyed a Humvee bomb as its driver attempted to attack Iraqi forces in Albu Farraj, an Anbar Operations Command source says. He added that Iraqi forces destroyed a Daesh hideout and killed three Daesh members in Jaraishi. [Sumaria]
The IWMC says the IAA destroyed two Daesh hideouts in Albu Flais east of Ramadi, killing or wounding several terrorists. [Ghad]
DaeshDaily comment. The obvious question from these mostly minor clashes is what happened to the previously reported incursion into Ramadi city reported last week by official Anbar sources. No official government media have confirmed those stories, and in the past three days there were no further reports of government military activity in the city.
Falluja
Coalition airplanes launched an airstrike near the Al-Tuffaha Bridge south of Falluja, killing six terrorists and destroying 4 hideouts and a vehicle. [BOC Facebook Page]
Daesh publishes photos of shelling Iraqi forces in different areas in Falluja district. [JustPaste] [JustPaste] [JustPaste]
Daesh publishes photos of targeting Iraqi forces position in Zoba’a with a 23 mm cannon and mortars. [JustPaste] [JustPaste]
Daesh publishes photos of throwing two young men in Falluja off a roof to kill them, after accusing them of homosexuality. [JustPaste]
DaeshDaily comment. Several Daesh defectors have said Daesh uses the homosexuality accusation to intimidate young men in areas it controls.
A car bomb planted in a civilian car exploded on an Army patrol in Falluja, killing three soldiers and damaging a Humvee. [Baghdadia]
Baghdad Operations Command troops killed six Daesh members and wounded another and destroyed a vehicle in Qarma. [BOC Facebook Page]
A Rapid Intervention unit killed 10 Daesh terrorists and destroyed a vehicle and a hideout in Subaihat in Qarma. [BOC Facebook Page]
Coalition planes destroyed three Daesh vehicles in Subaihat, an Anbar Operations Command source says. The source said the area was cleared two months ago of Daesh presence but the organization attacked it again. [Mada]
Hit/Haditha
The IWMC says Coalition airplanes destroyed the Hit Bridge, so as to isolate Daesh in the city and cut off its supply lines. [ARA]
Western Anbar
Coalition planes bombed the directorate of the Agriculture Ministry in Rutba on Sunday, a security source says. Daesh reportedly used the building as a local headquarters. Three vehicles and a checkpoint were also reportedly destroyed in the attack. [Baghdadia]
Daesh says a civilian was killed and others wounded in an airstrike on Al-Qa’im in the far west. [JustPaste]
Daesh publishes photos of schools in Anbar. [JustPaste]
SALAHUDDIN
The Salahuddin Police Chief says more than 35,000 displaced families have returned to their houses in different areas of Salahuddin. [Mada]
Daesh says it shelled and rocketed Iraqi forces in Tikrit, the Speicher base, Baiji, Siniya and west Samarra with Katyushas and mortars. [JustPaste]
Baiji
Daesh says it killed five Iraqi soldiers and destroyed four Humvees northeast of Baiji city. [JustPaste]
Daesh publishes photos of its tanks shelling Iraqi forces near the fertilizers factory in Baiji District. [JustPaste]
A video of two Iraqi soldiers freed from Daesh in the Harariyat area in north Baiji. [YouTube]
A security source says PMF snipers killed two Daesh fighters as they were trying to sneak into Baiji from the Makhoul Mountains area. [Ghad]
The IWMC says the IAF destroyed a Daesh construction shovel and a vehicle and killed several Daesh members in the Makhoul Mountains area. [Ghad]
A security source says Daesh reinforced its forces in the Makhoul Mountains area with 200 fighters from Mosul. [Ghad]
Videos of Iraqi forces in the Makhoul Mountains area. [YouTube] [YouTube]
Shirqat
A PUK official says Coalition airplanes bombed a Daesh convoy north of Shirqat, killing 13 terrorists including the security officer of Shirqat. [PUKMedia]
Tikrit
Local PMFs from Tikrit managed to rescue 22 families who escaped from Hawija through the Himrin Mountains, a security source says. [Mada]
A joint PMF and police force arrested four people while they were attempting to abduct two civilians in downtown Tikrit, a local police source says. The detainees formed a gang that reportedly confessed to kidnapping a pediatrician last week. [Mada]
Samarra
The IAA conducted airstrikes on Daesh in Watban Street, killing the deputy commander of Daesh in Jazeera Samarra and six of his associates, as well as destroying an anti-aircraft missile and a truck loaded with weapons, an Iraqi JOC source says. [Mada]
IFP forces shelled multiple Daesh locations in Jazeera Samarra, killing 31 Daesh members including a Daesh commander, the IFP commander says. [Baghdadia]
Iraqi joint forces stopped a Daesh attack west of Samarra, capturing an armored vehicle and a construction excavator, a security source says. [Baghdadia]
Daesh publishes a video showing a battle success against Iraqi forces west of Samarra. According to Daesh, the attack started with two vehicle bombs with a Yemeni and a Tunisian, then Daesh terrorists went in and killed the rest. [Archive]
DaeshDaily comment. We couldn’t confirm the date of the attack but most likely it’s from last week.
Elsewhere in Salahuddin
Iraqi joint forces repelled a large Daesh attack on the Allas and Ajil oil fields, killing 22 Daesh fighters, a security source says, adding that an Iraqi lieutenant colonel was killed in the battle and 35 Iraqi soldiers were wounded. Heavy clashes have continued since last night between Iraqi forces and Daesh in Siniya following Daesh attacks on that area, the source also said. Another source says the IAA destroyed seven Daesh vehicles around the area, while another said Daesh has reinforced its fighters with militants coming from Ninewa and Hawija but has not been able to retake these oil fields since Iraqi forces captured them in March of this year. [Sumaria] [Baghdadia]
An IFP rocket battalion shelled two Daesh locations in eastern Salahuddin, destroying five vehicles and several shelters used for weapons storage, the IFP commander says. [Baghdadia]
DaeshDaily comment: Apparently Daesh is regaining ground in the northern areas of Salahuddin. Over the weekend the just-ousted Governor admitted that Daesh captured the Harariyat area, and blamed Daesh’s advances on the political disunity in Salahuddin.
BAGHDAD
The Minister of Interior says MOI patrols were targeted more than 1500 times in the last 12 months, including 53 car bombs, 109 IEDs, and 11 explosive vests, in addition to many shooting and shelling attacks. The Ministry said 1096 of its members were killed in that period and 3633 injured. [Mada]
The MoI also says more than 3,000 Daesh members were killed by MoI forces during the last 12 months. It says security forces defused more than 8,000 IEDs and 172 car bombs, while 1,364 of all terrorist attacks happened in Baghdad (55% of the total). [Buratha] [Buratha] [Buratha]
DaeshDaily comment. Doing the arithmetic, this means an average of 91 MoI personnel are getting killed every month, and roughly 250 Daesh combatants are getting killed by MoI.
The Iraqi Civil Aviation Authority has suspended all flights to Erbil and Suleimaniya airports due to (Russian) cruise missiles and military planes crossing northern Iraq airspace from the east en route to Syrian territory. Airports in the rest of Iraq remain open. [Mada]
Prime Minister Abadi expressed support for the authority of the governorates to make appointments to the top local positions in the various ministry directorates, rather than the central ministries continuing to do so, the Kirkuk GC Chairman has announced. According to the Chairman PM Abadi expressed this view in his most recent meeting with the governorate council chairs. [Sumaria]
DaeshDaily comment: PM Abadi is supporting the new governorates law as it was passed and subsequently strengthened. The law requires devolving authority from central ministries to the governorates, and implementation began this year. This represent a break with the policies of his predecessor, who opposed the law and among other things allowed the ministries to continue appointing their own directorate chiefs in the provinces in spite of the legislation. By giving governors and provincial councils a share in managing government services, the law is intended to create a more federal system, as envisioned in the Iraqi constitution. No so incidentally, this empowers Sunni-majority provinces, leaving fewer excuses to oppose the central government and hopefully undermining Daesh’s anti-government narrative.
In a surprise move, former Vice President Osama Al-Nujaifi announced in Amman the formation of a new Sunni Iraqi bloc called “The Supreme Coordination Committee for the Governorates Affected by Terrorism”. The announcement was met with a lot of criticism from Sunni politicians who said they heard about this only from the media. Some of them also say some people in the new bloc are responsible for what’s happening now in Iraq, because of their participation in the anti-government demonstrations in 2014 that led to Daesh taking over several Sunni cities. [Mada] [BasNews]
DaeshDaily comment. The lack of proper and united leadership is a problem all over Iraq. In large part this reflects the decades of dictatorship. However, it’s more harmful in Sunni communities, where politicians are not on solid ground with their constituents and jump from a country to country and from agenda to agenda, hurting not only Sunni Iraqis but Iraq as a whole.
French planes conducted two airstrikes targeting Daesh in Ramadi and Sinjar, a security source said. [Mada]
The spokesman of the Iraqi Foreign Ministry has rejected rumors circulating in Iraq which say the US Congress will meet tomorrow to vote on dividing Iraq. He says the US supports the unity of Iraq and is providing support in the battle against Daesh. [Sumaria]
DaeshDaily comment. The rumor is easy to refute, but one wonders who is behind these not infrequent (and false) rumors about some action about to be undertaken by the US, and what the motive is for the misinformation.
Mosul Dam is completely secured by Coalition airpower, the Minister of Water Resources says. He concedes that the dam requires grouting in cracks that have appeared in the face of the dam and says the ministry will open an international tender for the repair of the facility. [Sumaria]
DaeshDaily comment: The Mosul Dam is the most dangerous dam in the world now. If it fails, hundreds of thousands of lives could be lost in the flooding. The dam has been endangered since 2003 due to lack of maintenance, and it suffered even more extreme degradation after Daesh temporarily took control of the dam in 2014. Cracks in the dam have apparently expanded and water has been observed seeping through. The Iraqi government has repeatedly played down the risks associated with the dam and the possibility of its collapse, and has not created an emergency plan in case the dam fails.
Sources say French airplanes bombed Daesh in Haditha, Hit, Mosul, Sinjar and Makhmur, killing many Daesh members. [Sumaria]
The Iraqi Foreign Affairs Ministry issues a statement welcoming the Security Council’s resolution 2249 regarding the war against Daesh and says it is an important step to fight terrorism. [PUKMedia]
Mowaffak Al-Rubaie, the former national security director, says the PMFs should be transformed to something similar to the Iranian Revolutionary Guard to protect the political system. [BasNews]
DaeshDaily comment. Dr. Mowaffak has a reputation for deft diplomatic language, and we think we know what he means, but the comparison to the Revolutionary Guard is perhaps not well considered.
The MoI says it prepared a plan to move the surplus bodyguards of Iraqi officials to the front lines and will punish anyone who doesn’t obey. [IraqPress]
DaeshDaily comment. Tens of thousands of unneeded bodyguards were assigned to thousands of Iraqi officials, which took manpower away from the Iraqi armed forces. This practice was summarily stopped by the Prime Minister’s anti-corruption reform program.
Daesh says it clashed with an Iraqi Army unit in Arab Jabour in south Baghdad and forced it to retreat. Daesh also says its snipers killed an Iraqi soldier in the same area in addition to detonating 2 IEDs and shelling Iraqi forces with mortars. [JustPaste]
Daesh says it detonated the car of a “spy” with a sticker IED in Mada’in, wounding him and destroying the car. [JustPaste]
An Iraqi Army 43rd Brigade unit defused 2 IEDs in Rashidiya in north Baghdad. [BOC Facebook Page]
An Iraqi Army 42nd Brigade unit captured a man wanted on terrorism charges and found an IED on him, and it defused two more IEDs in Luhaib in northwest Baghdad. [BOC Facebook Page]
According to security sources:
- Unknown armed men shot at a civilian car in Al-Qanat Street in east Baghdad, killing an employee of the MoI intelligence services and wounding two others. [Mada]
- Unknown armed men in two SUVs abducted two civilians in the Jamila area of east Baghdad. [Baghdadia]
- Unknown armed men kidnapped a liquor store owner in Zayouna in the New Baghdad District in east Baghdad. [Mada]
- Anti-explosive operatives defused a car bomb in Karrada in central Baghdad. [Baghdadia]
- A roadside IED exploded on a police vehicle in Arab Jabour, south Baghdad, killing a policeman and wounding three. [Baghdadia]
- A roadside IED exploded in Mada’in in south Baghdad, killing two and injuring seven. [Mada]
- Unknown armed men shot and killed a civilian in Saidiya in southwest Baghdad. [Ghad]
- A roadside IED exploded in Radwaniya in southwest Baghdad, killing a civilian and wounding three others. [Baghdadia]
- The body of an unknown man was found bearing gunshot wounds to the head in Bakriya in west Baghdad. [Baghdadia]
- An IED exploded in a commercial area in Hurriya in northwest Baghdad, killing two people and wounding six. [Mada]
- Also in Hurriya, a civilian was killed and two wounded when a sticker IED exploded under a small bus. [Baghdadia]
Ahmed Chalabi’s family says the autopsy showed that he died of natural causes. [Ghad]
DIYALA
Baquba
The Diyala Governorate Council has not met for nearly two months, a member of the Diyala GC has announced, calling upon Prime Minister Abadi to intervene in the matter. [Mada]
DaeshDaily comment. This situation has received scant news coverage but reportedly it resulted from unresolved political leadership disputes.
Diyala police started a search campaign in Khalis, the Diyala police chief says. The orchard areas around Khalis are known to be used by Daesh as hideouts. [Mada]
The tribes of Zaghinya village 15 km (9 miles) northeast of Baquba repelled a Daesh attack on the village, reportedly killing an important Daesh leader, the chairman of Abbara subdistrict council says. [Sumaria]
A security source says a policeman was wounded when an IED exploded near his house in east Baquba. [Sumaria]
Muqdadiya/Abu Saida
An IED exploded in Muqdadiya, wounding a policeman and a civilian. [Sumaria]
Tribal PMFs stopped a Daesh gathering in the Shirween area, northeast of Muqdadiya, a Diyala GC member says. He says Daesh forces launched attacks on several PMF positions, and asks that the central government provide weapons to the tribal PMFs in the area so they can better resist such attacks. [Sumaria]
KIRKUK
A local source says Daesh executed 10 people and hung their bodies on electricity poles in the Al-Zab subdistrict in Hawija, accusing them of “escaping the caliphate land”. [Sumaria]
Daesh arrested six people who were trying to escape with their families from Hawija toward Himrin Mountains, a local source says, adding ominously that Daesh released the women and children but kept the six men and moved them to an unknown location. [Mada]
NINEWA
Mosul
A Ninewa Police source says Coalition planes bombed Daesh in two villages in Qayara south of Mosul city, killing 11 Daesh members and wounding others. [BasNews]
A Ninewa Police source says Daesh executed 12 university students in Mosul, accusing them of running anti-Daesh pages on social media. The source also says Daesh arrested 19 former policemen in Qayara, including 7 officers, accusing them of cooperating with Iraqi forces. The source says the policemen had “repented” after Daesh captured Mosul. [BasNews]
A PUK source says Daesh executed two former high ranking police officers, accusing them of communicating with the Iraqi government. [PUKMedia]
A KDP official says three Daesh members were killed and others wounded when the Peshmerga shelled Daesh locations in Bartella east of Mosul. [BasNews]
A source in Ninewa Police says Kata’eb Ahrar Al-Mosul shot and killed a Daesh “intelligence officer” and four of his associates in west Mosul. [BasNews]
Kata’eb Al-Mosul says its fighters shot and killed two Daesh members in a vehicle in south Mosul. [KM Facebook Page]
Local sources say Daesh’s “services office” forced the shop owners in a local market to pay $250 each to build a roof for the market. [Karemlash]
Local sources say Daesh issued fees on children to enroll in the schools. The families also had to pay for the books. The sources also say Daesh changed the curriculum to match its ideology. For example, the history books talk about Daesh members and the math books ask questions about how many Shia should be killed if a certain number of IEDs is detonated. [Karemlash]
Northwest Ninewa
Daesh says it shelled Kurdish forces in Sinjar city and Qulat village in Sinjar, killing 50 fighters and wounding 90 and destroying 13 vehicles. [JustPaste]
A CoR member from Ninewa says the Iraqi government and the KRG should explain their positions regarding the presence of a terrorist organization (the PKK) in Sinjar. [Buratha]
Other Governorates
KURDISTAN
The US Deputy Secretary of State Tony Blinken meets with President Barzani, KRG PM Nechirvan Barzani and former KRG PM Barham Salih in Erbil to discuss the war against Daesh and the political situation in Kurdistan. [Rudaw] [Rudaw] [PUKMedia]
DaeshDaily comment. We can reasonably surmise that an official as high as the State Department’s Deputy Secretary did not hold this meeting to discuss military matters. The KRG political crisis is still unresolved.
Iraqi Kurdish forces are ready to participate in the liberation of Raqqa in Syria, KRG President Barzani’s media advisor has said. [Sumaria]
Daesh Daily comment. The motive for this statement is unclear, but it is unlikely that the PYD and YPG, who are not favored by Barzani, would welcome the Peshmerga to the battle for Raqqa.
SOUTHERN IRAQ
Babel. Five people wanted on terrorism charges were arrested in Musayyib and Mahawil, north of Hilla, the National Security Service says. The detainees were reportedly in possession of weapons and explosives intended for use in attacks on Shia pilgrims on the road to Kerbala. [Mada]
A Badr commander says the Badr organization has installed dozens of monitoring cameras in northern parts of Babel to monitor the routes of Shia faithful as they proceed on the upcoming pilgrimages. [Mada]
DaeshDaily comment: Security monitoring is usually the job of the government, not politicized militias.
Najaf-Kerbala. A man wanted on terrorism charges was captured on the road between Najaf and Kerbala, disguised as a Shia religious pilgrim. [Sumaria]
REPORTS FROM TURKEY
Another interesting segment sent to us from our friend in Turkey. On Saturday Cumhuriyet newspaper in Turkey (close to the secular opposition CHP party) published an article about what appears to be the first joint US-Turkish operation in support of local forces trying to drive Daesh out of the area around Turkey’s border city of Kilis across from northwest Turkey.
“Following agreement between Turkey and the USA as to driving Daesh out of the area to the south of Kilis, an operation was effectively conducted yesterday. With the support of US and Turkish planes, Turkmen forces retook the villages of Harjala and Dalha, where they had been fighting for three months and conflict has intensified over the past month. It has been learnt that air support was influential in removing Daesh from the villages…. Daesh has pulled back for the first time. Daesh, which, despite its intensive attacks over the summer months against PYD-controlled Kobane, was unsuccessful, has for the first time pulled back in the region furthest west along the border with Turkey.”
What will happen to the YPG? Security sources commented, “Turkey’s stance toward the YPG is known. The USA favors making more active use of the YPG. Turkey, on the other hand, has announced that it will not turn a blind eye toward the YPG to the west of the Euphrates. The problems and concerns have not been settled one hundred percent. However, Daesh’s attacks and threats against Europe have relegated certain details to back stage.” [Cumhuriyet]
Turkish officials have, until now, referred to anti-Assad forces as ‘opposition forces’. This is the first time Turkish official have made pronouncements to describe “anti-Daesh forces.”
DaeshDaily comment. The implication may be that there is a deal. The Kurds will not cross the Euphrates. Turkey will support the opposition groups fighting west of the river.
REPORTS FROM SYRIA
Northeast
The Kurdish National Council in Syria organized more demonstrations in Hasaka against PYD policies. PYD armed men attacked and assaulted the demonstrators. [Welati]
The PYD Asayesh issues orders to their checkpoint to prevent citizens from Raqqa and Deir Ez-Zor from entering Hasaka. [ARA]
The Democratic Syria Forces say they liberated Al-Melabiya and Al-Khamael south of Hasaka, killing many Daesh fighters and destroying several vehicles. [Welati]
The YPG says its troops stopped Daesh attacks during the last two days on several areas in Kobane countryside and Tal Abyad, killing 20 Daesh terrorists, destroying two vehicles, and capturing a vehicle bomb carrying one ton of explosives. [BasNews]
A booby-trapped motorcycle exploded in Tal Abyad on Sunday, killing five civilians, including a 7 year old girl, and wounding 15 including women and children. [Welati] [Hawar]
A source from the Syrian-Turkish border says 175,000 displaced people returned to Kobane from Turkey during the last nine months. Other sources say these people are not only residents of Kobane but also from other areas liberated from Daesh. [BasNews]
Daesh publishes photos of shelling YPG forces in the Um Barameel village near Raqqa and in Ain Eissa with mortars and Katyushas. [JustPaste] [JustPaste]
Daesh publishes a video of the results of the Russian bombing on Raqqa on Sunday. [A3maq]
Northwest
Turkish sources said on Sunday Turkey will establish a safe zone in north Syria within a week to fill the gap resulting from Daesh’s withdrawal. The FSA, Jabha Shamiya, Ahrar Al-Sham and Turkmen armed groups will be helped to control the area, and no Kurdish forces. [Welati]
A Jabha Shamiya commander says Turkish airplanes helped them and the Sultan Murad forces (Turkmen) to capture two towns in Aleppo’s northern countryside. [ARA]
Eyewitnesses say people continued their demonstrations against Daesh in Manbij on Sunday and Daesh arrested many of them. [ARA]
Central and West
The Syrian Army captures Mahin city and the Huwwarin village south of Homs. A local activist says Syrian forces are aiming at clearing Homs southern countryside and advancing towards Tadmur. [ARA]
Daesh says it destroyed a Syrian army T72 tank in Dowa with a Kornet rocket. [Dump]
East
Daesh publishes another video about the results of the Russian bombing on a mosque in Al-Mayadin in Deir Ez-Zor on Friday. [A3maq]
REPORTS FROM OTHER MIDDLE EAST/NORTH AFRICAN COUNTRIES
Daesh publishes another video about the Paris attacks. [Archive]
Daesh publishes infographics about the Paris attacks. [Dump]
Daesh audio newsletter for today in English. [Archive]
Egypt. A woman and her baby were killed by an IED planted to target the police near Sheikh Zuweid in north Sinai. [Youm7]
Thousands of people in Ismailia participated in the funeral of an Egyptian Special Forces commander and a soldier killed with three other soldiers in an explosion near Arish. [Mogaz]
Daesh says it destroyed an Egyptian Army Humvee in south Sheikh Zuweid, killing all the soldiers inside it. [JustPaste]
Daesh says its terrorists killed an Egyptian policeman in Arish, and burned an Egyptian Army food supply truck in Rafah. [JustPaste]
A hugely significant and bizarre set of pronouncements exposed the well known but largely undiscussed connection between Daesh and the Saudi-supported Wahhabi school of Sunni Islam. First, the Egyptian Center for Fatwas issued a statement last week condemning the attacks on civilians. The Center said the radicals are using a fatwa issued by Ibn Uthaymeen, one of the major Saudi clerics, who justified killing women and children of enemies if the enemies did the same. That absolutely violates a major Islamic principle, mentioned four times in the Quran, which says no one should be punished for someone else’s crime. Among other things, the Daesh perversion of the Quran justifies attacking civilians from all Coalition countries because the Coalition is argued to be bombing civilians.
However, the Center soon backed down. It apologized and also deleted the statement from its website after strong objections from Saudi Arabia. [Badil] It seemed obvious that the Center had caved to political pressure and abandoned Islamic principles.
The same week Daesh online supporters re-released the illegitimate fatwa and stressed its justification for killing civilians. [Ana Al-Muslim]
DaeshDaily comment. The role of Wahhabism in providing intellectual support for Daesh is a subject that desperately needs more attention, as it undermines all efforts of Western diplomacy to deal with ISIS and fight Islamic extremism. The re-published fatwa may serve not only to legitimize the Paris attacks but also to legitimize other attacks based on another of Daesh’s major concepts, “nikaya” (causing suffering) against enemies, when its concept of governance under a caliphate that stays and expands seems unachievable after major defeats (like Sinjar and Baiji).
Libya. Medical sources say an unknown airplane bombed a vehicle near Sirte, killing the Daesh media official in Libya and two of his associates. [IslamMemo]
A local source says unknown planes bombed Daesh in Wadi Bi in Sirte and several Daesh members were taken to the hospital. [Ewan]
The Libyan News Agency says thousands of Tunisian terrorists have joined Daesh in Libya and publishes the names of 44 of them. [AfriGate]
Tunisia. Tunisian authorities denied what Daesh said about the 16-year-old shepherd who was beheaded by Daesh for being a spy. They say Daesh forced the kid to admit he was a spy and its sole purpose was to intimidate the people in the area. Daesh beheaded the boy and gave his head to his friend to take it to his family a week ago. [AfriGate] Daesh published a video on Sunday of beheading the boy. [Archive]
Tunisian authorities arrested two terrorists in Sfax on their way to join terrorist groups in Libya. [AfriGate]
Tunisian authorities arrested a 30 year old suspect linked to the Sousse terrorist cell. [Tunisien]
Morocco. Moroccan authorities say the Moroccan citizens kicked out of Turkey have no links to Daesh. Turkish authorities had claimed they kicked out eight Moroccans linked to Daesh. [Cihan]
SOCIAL MEDIA SOURCES
Facebook Page of the Day
Daesh cleric Mohammed Tarhouni page
Daesh Twitter Accounts of the Day
https://twitter.com/MostHideousOnes
https://twitter.com/Gold_IS_IS
