October 10, 2016
Daesh Fires in Ninewa (Sumaria)
Today’s Major Developments
Daesh attacks Shia gathering in New Baghdad District; at least 5 killed, 22 wounded. [..]
Daesh attacks Shia civilians in Al-Khalis, Diyala. [..]
Exodus of civilians from Hawija threatens capacity of emergency facilities. [..]
Daesh keeps building up defenses in Mosul as government’s liberation campaign waits. [..]
Daesh orders daily prayers in Mosul reduced from 5 to 3. [..]
Daesh blows up historic Assyrian church in Nineveh Plain. [..]
Russia announces plans for permanent naval base in Syria. [..]
REPORTS FROM IRAQ
NATIONAL NEWS
Former Minister of Defense Khaled Al-Obeidi issued a statement refuting Turkish media reports that he approved the presence of the Turkish troops in Bashiqa in a deal that was approved by Baghdad and Erbil. Local activists issued a video of Obeidi describing the presence of Turkish troops as an “occupation.”
Obeidi had visited the NMF compound and promised the fighters salaries, and they were paid for two months, but the salaries stopped after they refused to join training camps in Salahuddin. Former governor Nujaifi is using that visit as a “proof” that Obeidi knew about the Turkish troops, although the video doesn’t show any Turkish presence.
A Sunni MP from Ninewa says the NMF includes some shady people who have links to Daesh. He also says Nujaifi is offering young men from Ninewa money to join the NMF. He accused Turkey of delaying the Mosul battle.
Prime Minister Abadi said on Sunday that the Turkish troops should remain in their positions and not participate in the Mosul battle. Abadi also says Turkey doesn’t have an advisory role in the battle either. A KDP official says the Peshmerga are ready for the battle, and says they won’t enter the city. He says the dispute between Baghdad and Ankara is delaying the battle. [Facebook] [Mada]
DaeshDaily comment. We believe the last point by the KDP official is true. However, he conveniently omits the fact that Barzani connived in the Turkey-NMF deal and contributed directly to the problem. Even if Barzani and the KDP are (hopefully) distancing themselves from the scheme, this is not just a dispute between Baghdad and Ankara, but a blatant violation of Iraqi sovereignty for which the Kurds share some of the blame.
The PMFs Administrative Deputy says 15,000 volunteers from Ninewa were registered and will join the PMFs in order to participate in the Mosul liberation. [Mada]
The Supreme Federal Court ruled against Prime Minister Abadi’s decision to fire the three vice presidents, declaring the decision unconstitutional. In a later statement, the Supreme Judicial Council spokesman says the ruling was not about reinstating the vice presidents but was handed down in response to a case submitted by former vice president Osama Al-Nujaifi. [ROJ] [Mada]
Italy has deployed helicopters, drones, fighter jets and more than 1,300 troops for the war on ISIS in Iraq. Rome’s contingent includes a battalion of 450 elite soldiers whose job it is to safeguard the strategic Mosul Dam while an Italian engineering firm undertakes critical repairs. If the dam breaks, the resulting flood could submerge Mosul in 60 feet of water — and wreak havoc as far as Baghdad, 340 miles away.
In the past, Daesh has avoided trying to damage the dam, as a breach could devastate Mosul, the most populous city under its control. However, Daesh communications that leaked in September suggest that it sees things differently now that it’s likely to lose control of Mosul to Iraqi forces. [WarIsBoring]
The Council of Europe has awarded its Václav Havel human rights prize to the Iraqi activist Nadia Murad, who was a Daesh sex slave before becoming the face of a campaign to protect her Yazidi people. [Gordian]
The Coalition says it conducted 8 airstrikes on Daesh targets in Iraq (near Mosul (4), Sinjar (3), and Sultan Abdullah (1)). [InherentResolve]
BAGHDAD
Security-related incidents reported
Center (Rusafa, Karkh, etc.)
The Rusafa Criminal Court sentenced a man to life in prison for his rule in a failed attempt to assassinate a senior MoI officer. [Ghad]
North (Tarmiya, Taji, etc.)
A police source says the bodies of two unknown men were found shot in Bub Al-Sham. [Sumaria]
A police source says two soldiers were killed when an IED exploded on their vehicle in the Abayachi area. the soldiers were transporting a Daesh terrorist who was leading them to a hideout in the area. The terrorist was also killed in the explosion. [Sumaria]
Northeast (Adhamiya, etc.)
A local police source says an MoI employee was killed and seven wounded when a sticky IED exploded under his vehicle in a commercial area in Suleikh. [Maalomah] [Mada]
Daesh says it killed seven Shia by detonating an IED on their bus in Shula. [A3maq]
East (Sadr City, New Baghdad, etc.)
An MoI source said on Sunday that five people were killed and twenty-two wounded when a Daesh terrorists attacked a Shia gathering in Baghdad Al-Jadida (New Baghdad). [Mada]
Daesh said on Sunday that it killed thirty people and wounded forty on a suicide attack with an explosives vest against a Shia gathering in Jadida. [A3maq]
The suicide terrorist in Baghdad Al-Jadida was an Iraqi. [DawaAlhaq]
Southeast (Mada’in, etc.)
An MoI source says two people were killed and six wounded when an IED exploded near a popular café in the Ja’ara area, in Mada’in. [Mada]
A police source says the body of an unknown man was found shot in Nahrawan. [Sumaria]
Iraqi Army 42nd brigade defused 5 IEDs in the Tuwaitha area. [BOC Facebook Page]
South (Dora, Yusufiyah, Mahmudiya, etc.)
Iraqi Army 55th brigade defused an IED in Arab Jubour. [BOC Facebook Page]
Southwest (Rasheed, etc.)
An MoI source says one person was killed and seven wounded when an IED exploded in a commercial area in Mahdiya in Dora. [Mada]
An MoI source says 4 armed men in a civilian vehicle kidnapped a policeman near his house in Hay Al-Jihad. [Mada]
An MoI source says a Sunni Endowment employee was killed when a sticky IED exploded under his vehicle in Saidiya. [Mada]
West (Ghazaliya, Abu Ghraib, etc.)
An MoI source says one person was killed and seven wounded when an IED exploded near a commercial area in Iskan. [Mada]
A local police source says one person was killed and three wounded when an IED exploded in a commercial area in Ghazaliya. [Maalomah]
Total Baghdad incidents reported: 18 (Includes only incidents reported)
ANBAR
Falluja
West Baghdad Operations Command says it captured 8 Daesh terrorists who were trying to sneak in with displaced families, east of Falluja. [Mada]
Hit/Haditha
The IWMC says Iraqi forces captured three villages on the east side of the Euphrates. It says Jazeera Operations Command troops met up with the Anbar Operations Command troops after clearing the entire eastern side of the River from Haditha to Hit. [Maalomah]
Jazeera Hit. An Anbar Operations Command source says Iraqi forces also cleared Hay Al-Bakr in Jazeera Hit, and defused tens of IEDs. [Sumaria]
The IWMC said on Sunday that Iraqi forces liberated the East Zuwiya area in Jazeera Hit. [Mawazin]
The Hit Police Emergency commander says Iraqi forces captured the Suwaib and Omariya areas in Jazeera Hit without resistance from Daesh. However, he says Daesh booby-trapped the houses and roads in these areas. [Maalomah]
The Jazeera Operations commander had earlier reported that his troops, supported by the IAA, captured the Safaqiya area in Jazeera Hit, got rid of all Daesh sleeper cells in the area, and defused 37 IEDs. [Maalomah]
DaeshDaily comment. This area was declared liberated ten days ago. The reference to “sleeper cells” suggests that Daesh recaptured the area by using local terrorists disguised, as usual, as civilians.
He also said Iraqi forces, supported by the Coalition, have captured several villages in Jazeera Hit and are advancing to clear the entire area, killing many Daesh terrorists. [Sumaria]
Haditha. A Tribal PMF commander says Iraqi forces broke into a Daesh hideout using boats in the Khasfa area west of Haditha, killing 10 terrorists and capturing 2 (photos). [Maalomah]
Jazeera Operations Command says Iraqi forces killed 15 Daesh terrorists and destroyed 3 vehicles carrying weapons on the road between Haditha and Baiji. [Baghdadia]
Rutba/Western Anbar
The MoD says Iraqi Sukhois destroyed several Daesh vehicle bombs in Anah that had been prepared to attack Iraqi forces, killing 17 terrorists. The Sukhois also destroyed a vehicle bomb factory and a Daesh fuel station in Al-Qa’im. [Baghdadia]
Daesh says it conducted a suicide attack with an explosives vest on an Iraqi barrier north of Rutba. [A3maq] Daesh says the attack was conducted by an Iraqi terrorist in the Nadhem area, north of Rutba, and killed seven Iraqi soldiers. [DawaAlhaq]
Daesh publishes photos of stoning two men to death publicly after accusing one of homosexuality, and the other of adultery. The photos show another man’s hand cut off after he was accused of theft. [DawaAlhaq]
SALAHUDDIN
Shirqat
Daesh says it killed five Iraqi soldiers with an IED near the Tilul Al-Baj area, southwest of Shirqat. [A3maq]
Daesh publishes photos of targeting Iraqi Army armored vehicles. [DawaAlhaq]
Samarra
The Samarra Operations Commander says his troops started a security operation to search and clear the Mtaibija area and surrounding villages. Iraqi forces had captured the area in August. [AIN]
A military source says Iraqi planes bombed Daesh positions in Mtaibija, killing 5 terrorists. [Buratha]
DIYALA
Baquba/southeast Diyala
Daesh says it killed or wounded more than fifty “Shia pilgrims,” including seven soldiers (including an officer), at the Al-Khalis District entrance. [A3maq]
DaeshDaily comment. Daesh is not hiding anything anymore. It openly says it is attacking Shia civilians, and not trying to hide that by saying it was attacking PMFs. Within this new type of Islam, it is totally acceptable to kill Shia pilgrims, men, women, or children.
A PMF commander says he warned repeatedly about a road from Zarqa to Udhaim used by Daesh to transport vehicle bombs. He says after today’s attack, Daesh’s next target is in Baghdad. [Sumaria]
The Diyala Police says it captured a Daesh hisbah terrorist in Hay Al-Tahrir in Baquba. It says the terrorists were collecting extortion money from shop owners and civilians in Baquba. [Mada] [Sumaria]
DaeshDaily comment. It is more realistic to look at Daesh as a gangster organization. This type of extortion has been going on since 2003.
A security source says six people were killed and eight wounded when a suicide terrorist attacked a checkpoint in the Udhaim area on the road between Diyala and Kirkuk. [Mada]
KIRKUK
Kirkuk
A Kirkuk Police commander says his troops captured 2 Daesh terrorists who tried to enter Kirkuk with displaced people from Ninewa. He says one of the terrorists had been injured in an airstrike and was treated in a hospital in Ninewa. [Sumaria]
The Kirkuk Governor says the people of Qara Tapa village, 25 km (15.5 miles) west of Kirkuk, were transferred based on their request to secure areas after Daesh assassinated several civilians in the village. The statement was a response to the Sunni CoR Alliance, which accused the Peshmerga of moving these residents as part of an effort to make demographic changes in the area. [Mada]
Daesh says it killed an Iraqi Army battalion commander and a soldier by detonating 3 booby-trapped houses in Hay Al-Khadra, in Kirkuk city. [A3maq]
Daesh publishes photos of an attack on Iraqi forces in the Dibis area. [JustPaste]
Hawija
A Tribal PMF commander says the Iraqi Army, IFP, and PMFs have started moving toward the Himrin Mountain and Fatha areas in preparation for the Hawija liberation battles. An Arab MP from Kirkuk says the number of displaced people from Hawija is increasing and the displacement camps in Erbil are facing a crisis. The Kirkuk directorate of Migration and Displacement said on Sunday that it received 784 displaced people from Hawija and moved them to a different camp in Kirkuk. [Mada]
Southwest
A security source says the Peshmerga received 800 civilians who escaped from Hawija at the Maktab Khaled area, in Rashad subdistrict. [Sumaria]
NINEWA
Mosul
Mosul campaign
In a statement, Ninewa Ops Command has issued a list of instructions to the people of Mosul advising them to refrain from believing or spreading Daesh rumors, cooperate with the security agencies, avoid Daesh locations, stay indoors, and follow safety procedures such as securing glass windows with tape and storing gas canisters outside, among others. The statement also included the hotline number for the counter-terrorism authorities. [Karemlash]
Daesh has been sowing areas of Mosul with dynamite sticks placed into holes drilled in the ground an Iraqi security source said. In some areas the holes are less than one meter apart. The source added that the dynamite is being rigged to be detonated remotely. Most of the dynamite is being laid in neighborhoods on the outskirts of the city from which residents have already fled, expecting Iraqi troops to storm the area shortly. As reported earlier Daesh’s defenses also include oil reservoirs ready to burn in trenches and massive concrete blocks to impede the progress of advancing troops (photo). [NewSabah]
Daesh has also been strewing auto tires at points throughout the city which sources say it intends to set alight to create a blanket of smoke once the Mosul operation is launched. [Mawsleya]
Photos purport to show Iraqi federal police massing on the outskirts of Mosul in preparation for the operations (photos). [PressIraq]
The “Ashura Brigade” [Saraya Ashura] has become the first PMF to cross the Ninewa border, according to reports in media outlets close to the Supreme Islamic Council, the predominantly Shia political organization to which the militia is tied. [IPA]
A Peshmerga commander says Coalition planes targeted several major Daesh positions in Mosul city. He says Daesh is using public locations for its terrorists, fearing Coalition airstrikes. Another Peshmerga commander says Daesh is using booby-trapped drones in its attacks because of the lack of suicide terrorists in Mosul. [BasNews] [BasNews]
A PUK official says the Coalition destroyed a Daesh IED factory on the east side of Mosul and another one on the west side. [Sumaria]
Daesh issues a video of a grain storehouse destroyed by “American planes” on Saturday in Hay Al-Sina’a, in Mosul. [A3maq]
Daesh says four people were killed in the airstrike. [A3maq]
The “Popular Resistance” in Mosul incinerated three Daesh media points in Mosul Sunday night, according to a Ninewa Police commander who said the operation was the first of its kind inside Mosul. The resistance was able to exploit the reduced Daesh presence at its checkpoints, in reaction to increased Coalition bombing activity, the commander said. [BasNews]
A local source says unknown armed men shot and killed 2 Daesh terrorists in the Haramat area in west Mosul, using silenced guns. [Harbi]
Kata’eb Al-Mosul says it killed a Daesh security member in Hay Al-Salam in Mosul. [KM Facebook Page]
The Patriarch of the Chaldean Catholic Church, Louis Sako, has issued a statement supporting the preparations for the upcoming Mosul operations and urging national unity among Iraqis. [Sumaria]
Conditions in Mosul
Mosul is in a “state of anticipation” as the operation approaches, according to sources in the city. The streets are increasingly empty and Daesh is decreasingly present on the streets, the sources said. [Mawsleya]
Daesh has been raiding homes of former members who left the group, compelling them to return to its ranks, local sources say. The sources suggest this reflects Daesh’s inability to recruit new members in the city. [Mawsleya]
Daesh has cancelled the guarantees it had been providing to families of its suicide attackers and instead marrying their widows off to other Daesh members, according to local sources. [Mawsleya]
According to a report citing “PMF Intelligence,” Daesh has begun providing money to children to spy on their families, asking the kids to report on whether they have used mobile phones, with whom they spoke, when, and what they said. [PressIraq]
In an apparent bid to boost morale, Daesh has marched a troop of approximately 50 masked armed men through areas of the city. However, eyewitnesses reported that the masked Daesh members looked from their size and stature to be just teenagers. [NewSabah]
Daesh has reduced the requirement for Islamic prayers from five times daily to three, according to a local source in Ninewa on Sunday. The source said Daesh had informed all local preachers of this order. The source suggested that the Daesh instruction is related to the wartime conditions in Mosul which require Daesh to mobilize its troops. [Sumaria]
A KDP official says Daesh ordered the daily prayers in Mosul reduced from 5 to 3 because of the security situation, and threatened to punish anyone who violates the new orders. [Rudaw]
DaeshDaily comment. In Shia traditions, this is the norm. In Sunni traditions you can do this only under severe conditions.
Daesh is attempting to collect all the Iraqi currency circulating in Mosul to replace it with a currency of its own issue, a local source in Ninewa said Monday. Daesh took Iraqi dinars from Mosul residents and gave them what was said to be an equivalent in its own currency in return, the source added. Daesh is also attempting to compel traders to use its currency in Mosul’s markets, the source added. [Sumaria]
DaeshDaily comment: This Daesh “money” will be worthless after Daesh is expelled from Mosul. It is essentially just stealing from people. Perhaps Daesh is also looking for ways to create fear of an Iraqi victory in Mosul among the populace of the city.
Daesh’s media centers in Mosul are devoid of new publications, local sources said. Daesh appears to have purposely removed those publications that speak to its occupation of villages and its executions and other cruelties in what could be an attempt to destroy evidence of its criminal acts. [Mawsleya]
Nineveh Plain
A local activist says Daesh blew up the historic St. Barbara Church in the Assyrian town of Karemlash a few days ago. [ARA]
DaeshDaily comment. This is a major loss of a historic site. Leaving Daesh in charge of the history and civilization of Iraq is like leaving a donkey in charge of a stash of valuable books. This is a direct example taken from the Quran.
A PUK official says the Turkish artillery in Zilkan killed a man and his two children in shelling on Fadhliya village. He says the Turkish artillery has destroyed tens of Shabak people’s houses so far. [Mada]
Brig. Gen. Muhammad Yahya, commander at the base where the NMF are training in Bashiqa has said that NMF fighters do not need any regional power to support them in the battle for Mosul, calling only for support from the Iraqi Army, Police, and Peshmerga, which “are considered the principal Iraqi forces and are recognized by the Iraqi State.” He also says “We needed the foreign forces for training, and the training is over.” [SotAlIraq]
DaeshDaily comment. The “regional power referred to is obviously Turkey. Fortunately, the loyal Iraqi forces don’t need the “support” of the anti-Iraq NMFs either, or their “regional power” friends.
Daesh attacked Turkish troops stationed in Bashiqa on Sunday, according to Turkish media reports. Turkish troops reportedly scrambled to respond to the attack and used Stinger missiles to destroy the Daesh artillery position that was firing on them. [Karemlash]
The PUK official says Coalition planes targeted a Daesh position in Bashiqa, killing 6 terrorists. [Mada]
Coalition planes destroyed a Daesh weapons storehouse in Tel Keif on Monday, and killed 6 youth fighters from Daesh’s Ashbal Al-Khilafa youth group, a Ninewa Police source said. In a separate story possibly referring to the same attack, Daesh commander Jassem Salih Yasin Khudayr Al-Jubouri of Makouk village in Qayara subdistrict was reportedly also killed, according to a PUK media official. [BasNews] [Mada]
A vital water gate (through which water passes) that had been broken has been repaired at Mosul Dam, according to a Ministry of Water Resources source. [Ghad]
Daesh published photos of targeting a Peshmerga position in the Fadhiliya Mountain area with an SPG9 rocket. [DawaAlhaq]
Qayara/Makhmur
Four Daesh mortars landed in Qayara on Saturday killing four civilians and injuring three others, according to Salih Al-Jubouri, chairman of Qayara subdistrict council. As in similar attacks over the previous days the mortars were reportedly launched from the Daesh-held village of Al-Hawd. [Sumaria]
Daesh detonated two oil wells in Qayara’s Al-Najma oilfield on Sunday, Al-Jubouri also said. [BasNews]
Artillery and warplanes destroyed a Daesh position while repelling a Daesh attack in the village of Kahriz. [PressIraq]
The capture of oilfields in Qayara has cost Daesh “$1 million USD per day” according to Ninewa Operations Commander Najm Al-Jubouri. [Ghad]
Daesh issues a video of damaging 2 Iraqi tanks in Al-Nassr village. [A3maq]
Northwest (Tal Afar, Sinjar)
Daesh publishes photos of targeting a Peshmerga position in the Wardiya area, west of Sinjar, with an RPG rocket. [DawaAlhaq]
Daesh publishes photos of attacking a Peshmerga position in the Kafraj camp with a 23 mm gun. [DawaAlhaq]
South (Baaj, Hatra)
Daesh publishes photos of constructing a wholesale market in Baaj. [DawaAlhaq]
KURDISTAN
A local activist says a Syrian refugee and her 6-year-old boy died in an electrical accident in Korkosk refugee camp. [ARA]
REPORTS FROM SYRIA
The Russian military plans to expand its supply base in Syria into a fully-fledged permanent naval base. The Russian facility in Tartus has long been used to resupply Russian warships during Mediterranean Sea missions.
“We are going to have a permanent Navy base in Tartus. We have prepared the paperwork, which is now being reviewed by other government agencies. The documents are pretty much ready, so we hope to submit them to you for ratification soon,” General Nikolai Pankov, deputy defense minister responsible for communication with other parts of the Russian government, told the Federation Council, Russia’s senate.” [RT]
DaeshDaily comment. This news will inevitably elicit more negative comments from those who feel that Obama’s Syria policy has benefited Russia more than the US.
The Coalition says it conducted 8 airstrikes on Daesh targets in Syria (near Mare’ (2), Shaddadi (2), Tadmur (1), Deir Ez-Zor (2) and Albu Kamal (1)). [InherentResolve]
Northeast (Hasaka, Raqqa)
Hasaka
A 24-year-old woman died in the hospital today from wounds in the terrorist attack on a wedding in Hasaka on October 3 that became infected, raising the total number of victims to 35. [Hawar]
The PYD-Asayesh says it defused 2 IEDs placed in a dumpster in Qamishli. [ARA]
A local activist says one civilian was killed and another wounded by a Daesh leftover land mine east of Shaddadi. [ARA]
Raqqa
Daesh issued a statement official announcing that the emir of its central media office, Abu Mohammed Furqan, was killed. [GooglePlus]
We reported on September 8 that takfiri cleric Essam Al-Barqawi (AKA Maqdisi) says the Daesh “minister of media,” Abu Mohammed Furqan, was killed in an airstrike on Raqqa a day earlier. He also said then that only Awwad Baghdadi and 3 other top leaders were still alive. [Twitter] [Twitter]
Daesh issues a video of raising its 30m x 12m flag in the Sabkha area, in Raqqa. [A3maq]
Northwest (Aleppo, Idlib)
Azaz
An opposition commander says opposition groups, supported by Coalition planes and Turkish artillery, captured Jarez, Yahmoul, Baraghida, Sheikh Reeh, Ghazal, and Adiya, after heavy battles with Daesh. He says Daesh has collapsed in the area. However, Daesh shelled and rocketed opposition groups in Akhtarin. [ARA]
Daesh said on Saturday that it recaptured re-captured the subdistrict capital of Akhtarin, along with Turkman Bareh and 3 more villages in the area. [A3maq] [A3maq] Apparently it then lost Akhtarin, after which it rocketed the opposition groups that had captured it, as noted above.
The commander also says opposition groups captured Duwaibik village, west of Akhtarin, but were forced to retreat because of Daesh land mines. Opposition groups also captured Fayrouziya village, west of Al-Ra’i. [ARA] The opposition groups captured 3 villages west of Al-Ra’i on Sunday. [ARA]
Opposition groups are now 15 km (9 miles) away from Al-Bab now. [Qasioun]
Daesh publishes photos of battles against opposition groups near the Turkish border. Daesh says the photos show American and Turkish planes. [DawaAlhaq] [DawaAlhaq]
Daesh issues a video of American and Turkish rockets falling on Ihtaimlat village. [A3maq]
Daesh says three women were killed by a Turkish artillery shell in Sawran village. [A3maq]
Afrin
More than 10,000 civilians, mostly Kurds, escaped from the Al-Bab and Al-Ra’i areas and arrived in Afrin during last week. All residents of Qaramel village in Al-Bab, mostly Kurds, left their houses because of the heavy Coalition bombing and Turkish shelling during the last four days. [Hawar] [Hawar]
Tens of Turkish artillery shells fell on Shuwairin village in Akhtarin subdistrict. [Hawar]
Manbij
Manbij Military Council troops stopped a Daesh attack on Dandaniya village, north of Manbij, killing 4 terrorists and destroying a vehicle bomb and a machine gun mounted vehicle. MMC fighters destroyed a Daesh vehicle bomb that was attacking MMC positions in Mashia village, south of Manbij. The battles are still ongoing. [Hawar]
Daesh publishes photos of food distribution for its terrorists south of Manbij. [DawaAlhaq]
Other Northwest Syria
Daesh publishes photos of targeting a Syrian Army position in the Industrial Area in Aleppo with an SPG9 rocket. [DawaAlhaq]
Central and West (Homs, Hama, etc.)
Daesh says it killed sixteen Syrian forces members and destroyed 2 of their tanks while they were trying to advance toward Tal Al-Sawana in the Huwaisis area east of Homs. [A3maq]
Daesh says it killed four Syrian forces members and wounded ten by detonating landmines near Aqareb Al-Safia village in Saboura subdistrict in Hama. [A3maq]
Daesh publishes photos of an attack on the Syrian army near the Silos area, east of Tadmur. [DawaAlhaq]
East (Deir Ez-Zor)
The Syrian Army killed several Daesh terrorists near Deir Ez-Zor airport and near the Panorama area. [SyriaNow]
The SOHR says two women, one child, and another civilian were killed by Daesh shelling on Joura and Qusour areas in Deir Ez-Zor. [SyriaHR]
Daesh issues a video of blowing up a tunnel under a Syrian Army position in Hay Al-Muwadhafin, in Deir Ez-Zor. [A3maq]
Daesh issues a video of two Syrian soldiers surrendering to its terrorists in Hay Al-Rusafa, in Deir Ez-Zor city. [A3maq]
South (Rif Damashq, Suwayda, Daraa, etc.)
A local activist says Jabha Janubiya, an opposition group, and Al-Nusra, stopped a Daesh attack in Mudawara village, killing 30 terrorists. [ARA] Daesh says it attacked the opposition in Mudawara village, in Lajat in Daraa, and killed four opposition fighters and wounded others. It says it targeted an opposition SUV and a motorcycle with an IED. [CTSS]
The opposition stopped a Daesh attack in East Qalamoun on Sunday, killing 37 terrorists. [Dorar]
Daesh says opposition groups, supported by “crusader” planes, tried to attack its positions in the Alyaniya area, on the road between Damascus and Baghdad in Al-Hamad Desert, but it stopped the attack and forced the opposition to retreat. [CTSS]
Jaish Al-Islam, an opposition group, says it shot down a Daesh drone in East Qalamoun. [ARA]
Daesh publishes photos of military training for its terrorists in the Yarmouk Camp. [DawaAlhaq]
Daesh issues a video of its affiliate, Khaled Army, burning boxes of cigarettes in the Yarmouk Basin area. [A3maq]
OTHER MIDDLE EAST/NORTH AFRICA REPORTS
Neighboring countries
Kuwait
A collision between a truck driven by an Egyptian and a vehicle carrying three U.S. soldiers in Kuwait was a “terrorist attack,” not an accident as first thought, the U.S. Embassy said.
“U.S. Embassy in Kuwait confirms that what at first appeared to be a routine traffic accident involving three deployed U.S. military personnel . . . was in fact an attempted terrorist attack,” the Mission said in a statement posted on its website.
The statement said the attack took place on Thursday and that the U.S. soldiers escaped unhurt. The soldiers also rescued the Egyptian driver when his truck caught fire, it said. The Kuwaiti Ministry of Interior said on Saturday that authorities arrested the Egyptian driver and found with him a hand-written note in which he had pledged allegiance to Daesh. It also said that the driver, identified as Ibrahim Sulaiman, 28, also carried a belt and material suspected of being explosives. [ ]
North Africa
Egypt
A security source says Counter Terrorism units defused 3 IED planted on the Coastal Road in Arish. [ElWatan]
A security source says an officer and three policemen were wounded when an IED exploded on their armored vehicle in the same area on Saturday. [ElWatan]
A security source says ABM terrorists kidnapped a man and his wife from their house in Arish city, after accusing them of cooperating with security forces. [VetoGate]
A 16-year-old boy was wounded by armed men in Hay Al-Hamayda in Sheikh Zuweid. [VetoGate]
Local sources say 3 shells fell on the TV station building in Rafah without causing human casualties. [VetoGate]
Daesh publishes photos of its hisbah burning cigarettes and “weed” in North Sinai. [DawaAlhaq]
Libya
Northeast
An LNA Special Forces soldier was killed and two others wounded in battles in Qawarsha on Sunday. [AfriGate]
Central coast
The GNA Military spokesman says his troops broke into the last Daesh-controlled area in Sirte, Hay 600. He says the battle against Daesh in Sirte is coming to an end. Daesh terrorists are trapped from all sides and some of them are surrendering to the GNA troops. [AfriGate] [Wasat]
A GNA Military source says American planes conducted 9 airstrikes on Daesh in Sirte killing 13 terrorists. [Wasat]
A local source says a GNA field commander was killed by a Daesh sniper in Sirte. [Wasat]
A jihadi group says a senior Daesh Libyan commander was killed in the battles in Sirte. [AfriGate]
A GNA Military source says 5 Daesh female members (from Tunisia, Morocco, and Guinea) surrendered to GNA troops in Sirte. [Wasat]
The GNA publishes a Daesh document it found in Sirte. The document shows the marriages of Daesh terrorists (including American and a French citizens) to women from different countries. [Wasat]
Algeria
Daesh says it detonated an IED on an Algerian Army convoy on Friday in Skikda in northeast Algeria. [A3maq]
Other countries
Afghanistan
Two U.S. military members were wounded Saturday in Afghanistan when their vehicle was hit by a bomb, according to reports.
The soldiers were not identified and the Pentagon has not updated their conditions.
Stars and Stripes reported the attack was made with a roadside bomb. Xinhua reported the vehicle was targeted by a suicide bomber. Xinhua also said one civilian was killed and a bride and groom, were among the injured. [UPI]
On Saturday, Daesh said it killed six American soldiers in an IED attack on their vehicle in the Akhunzada area, east of Jalalabad. Daesh says a suicide terrorists attacked the Afghani special forces who arrived in the area, killing eight of them and wounding others. [A3maq] Daesh publishes a photo of the suicide terrorist [DawaAlhaq]
Daesh says it killed five Afghani policemen, including an officer, by detonating an IED near the Kabul Base, in Jalalabad city. [A3maq]
SOCIAL MEDIA
Videos of the Day
Syria
A video of a Jund Al-Aqsa fighter captured by Ahrar Al-Sham admitting he was actually working for Daesh. [YouTube]
DaeshDaily comment. Ahrar Al-Sham, a Saudi and Turkey backed Syrian opposition group, had a big fight with Jund Al-Aqsa last week. Ahrar accused Jund of conducting several attacks on Ahrar on Daesh’s behalf. Jund Al-Aqsa finally joined Nusra Front to avoid retribution but it was accused of conducting several attacks on Ahrar in Idlib on Monday.
Video purportedly taken after an Free Syrian Army Brigade 51 prisoner exchange with Daesh in northern Syria. The returned FSA members are shown in blue shirts with shaven heads and are seen describing harsh conditions in Daesh prisons. [YouTube]
Iraq
Video purports to show residents of Jazeera Hit reacting to expulsion of Daesh from the area. [YouTube]
A newly released video on a PMF-affiliated YouTube channel with the title “Soon in Mosul” shows two drawings, first of a corrupt Daesh terrorist with a seated and bound Christian prisoner, followed by a striking image of the Christian standing and unbound while a PMF fighter restores a cross, presumably inside a church in Mosul. [YouTube]
Videos of Iraqi forces in Jazeera Hit [YouTube] [YouTube]
Social media photos of Daesh burned oilfields in Ninewa. Daesh is using this method to prevent the advances of Iraqi forces. [Sumaria]
DAESH MEDIA
Daesh audio newsletter for today [Bayan]
Daesh issues a propaganda video about one of its Iraqi commanders, who was killed in an airstrike last year. [DawaAlhaq]
