October 12, 2016
Ashura Visit in Kerbala (Kerbala TV)
Note to our readers. We decided to publish today on the Ashura holiday in Iraq, but will take a holiday Thursday and return on Friday.
Today’s Major Developments
Daesh reportedly orders its fighters out of northwest Anbar. [..]
Daesh prepares to blow up Mosul’s bridges and churches. [..]
4,500,000 people reportedly attended Ashura ceremonies in Kerbala. [..]
Germany sending additional military personnel to support NATO surveillance aircraft. [..]
Pope Francis makes urgent plea to rescue civilians from Aleppo. [..]
Russian, Syrian airstrikes take major civilian toll in Aleppo city, Homs District. [..]
Second mass-murder attack in two days targets Shia in Kabul. [..]
REPORTS FROM IRAQ
NATIONAL NEWS
Prime Minister Abadi says in Kerbala that the KRG President Barzani, during his visit to Baghdad, told him the Turkish troops are in a non-KRG area, so the issue with Turkey is within Iraqi government authority. Abadi also says that, as before the Falluja battle, many “dissonant voices” are trying to hinder the liberation of Mosul, but Iraqi forces will go ahead. [SotKurdistan]
He also says some people in Turkey are trying to keep the Turkish Army busy outside Turkey in order to divert attention from internal problems. [BasNews]
The Turkish Deputy Prime Minister says Turkish troops will remain in Bashiqa, describing the force’s presence as “legitimate.” Prime Minister Abadi’s office refuted claims that he requested the presence of the Turkish forces. He says Turkey once claimed that the forces came from a request from the former Ninewa Governor, then a request from the KRG, then they said it was approved by the Coalition. He says the conflicting comments of the Turkish leadership shows the embarrassing situation they have put themselves in. [ARA]
The Iraqi Army Chief of Staff says the Mosul battle will be against Daesh and not against the people of Mosul. He says “a few hours” separate those people from liberation. [SotKurdistan]
The Coalition says it conducted 7 airstrikes on Daesh targets in Iraq, on or near Mosul (4), Qayara (2), and Falluja (1). [InherentResolve]
BAGHDAD
Security-related incidents reported
North (Tarmiya, Taji, etc.)
An MoI source says the body of an unknown woman was found stabbed and tortured in Taji. [Mada]
East (Sadr City, New Baghdad, etc.)
An MoI source says the owner of a liquor store was killed when an IED exploded under his vehicle in Sadr City. [Mada]
An MoI source says two people were killed and eight wounded when an IED exploded in a commercial area in Ubaidi. [Mada]
Southeast (Mada’in, etc.)
An MoI source says an MoI captain was killed and his driver wounded when a sticky IED exploded on their vehicle in Mada’in. [Mada]
South (Dora, Yusufiyah, Mahmudiya, etc.)
An MoI source says one person was killed and five wounded when an IED exploded near a popular market in Mahmudiya. [Mada]
Daesh says its snipers killed an Iraqi soldier in Arab Jubour. [GooglePlus]
The Intelligence Service says it found an explosives cache in Latifiya that had been prepared for attacks on Shia pilgrims. [Ghad]
Total Baghdad incidents reported: 7 (Includes only incidents reported)
ANBAR
Hit/Haditha
A Tribal PMF commander says Iraqi forces finished their preparations to capture the entire Haditha-Baiji road. He says Iraqi forces, supported by Coalition airpower, will conduct the operation during the coming two days to cut off Daesh supply lines between Anbar and Salahuddin. The road goes 140 km from Haditha to the Anbar-Salahuddin border. [Mada]
An Anbar Operations Command source says Iraqi forces destroyed 180 IEDs and 68 cans of explosives, in addition to 1,900 mortar shells, in Jazeera Hit. He says the EOD is still clearing the area of land mines and IEDs. [Sumaria]
Daesh says it killed or wounded several Sahwa fighters with Grad rockets in Haditha District. [GooglePlus]
Rutba/Western Anbar
A security source says Daesh ordered its terrorists to leave Rawa, Anah, and Al-Qa’im and move towards Syria. The source says the terrorists left their headquarters and hideouts after booby-trapping them. [Mada]
DaeshDaily comment. If true, this is important news. At key points in this struggle, when Daesh has seen that Iraqi forces are determined to take an area, it has pulled back its fighters and left some sleeper cells. At other times it has withdrawn its foreign fighters and left its (typically local) Iraqi fighters. In any case, without totally clearing western Anbar, the Ninewa battle will be more difficult. Since its early days in Iraq, Daesh’s real depth was in the Anbar desert.
A Tribal PMF commander says the IAA targeted Daesh gatherings in Al-Qa’im, killing 8 terrorists and destroying 2 vehicles, 5 rocket launchers, and 4 tunnels. He says the IAA has intensified its attacks on Daesh in western Anbar. [Maalomah]
SALAHUDDIN
Shirqat
The IFP commander says his troops rocketed a Daesh gathering near the Misahaq village, in the Makhoul Mountains area. [Harbi]
Daesh says its snipers killed an Iraqi soldier on the outskirts of Shirqat city. Daesh also says 3 PMF vehicles were destroyed when they fell into a land mine field in the same area. [GooglePlus]
DaeshDaily comment. No casualties are claimed. Apparently these are self-driving but stupid vehicles that fell into a mine field by themselves. Land mine tales are apparently a staple of Daesh propaganda.
Daesh publishes photos of an Iraqi Army position being targeted by Daesh snipers west of Shirqat. [DawaAlhaq]
Daesh issues a video of targeting an Iraqi Army tank with a guided missile on the outskirts of Shirqat city.
[A3maq]
Daesh publishes photos of rocketing Iraqi Army tanks with guided missiles. [DawaAlhaq]
Daesh says it destroyed an Iraqi forces vehicle with an IED in the Khanuqa area south of Shirqat. [GooglePlus]
Daesh says it destroyed an Iraqi Army Humvee and 2 cars with IEDs south of Shirqat. [A3maq]
Baiji
The IFP commander says his troops stopped a Daesh attempt to sneak into the Harariyat area, destroying machine gun-mounted vehicles and killing several terrorists. He also says IFP units destroyed Daesh storehouses in the Fatha area northwest of Baiji. [Harbi]
Daesh says it targeted PMF positions in north Baiji with 70 mortars, 3 artillery shells, and 3 Katyushas. [GooglePlus]
Daesh publishes photos of allegedly attacking a PMF convoy in north Baiji. The photos don’t show any battles. [DawaAlhaq]
Tikrit
Daesh says it killed four PMF fighters and wounded others in the Jalam and Hassan areas in Al-Daur. [A3maq]
DaeshDaily comment. Yesterday, Daesh said it killed four PMF fighters almost in the same area.
Daesh says it detonated IEDs on 2 PMF cars in the Ajeel Oilfield, killing the fighters inside. [A3maq]
Samarra
Saraya Al-Salam, the Sadrist militia, says one of its EOD members was killed in a booby-trapped house in Jazeera Samarra. [Mada]
Southern Salahuddin
Daesh says it destroyed a PMF bulldozer in the Mtaibija area. [GooglePlus]
DIYALA
Baquba/southeast Diyala
Daesh says it killed an AAH commander with a sticky IED under his vehicle in Al-Khalis on Tuesday. [A3maq]
Muqdadiya/Abu Saida
The Chairman of the Security Committee in the Abu Saida subdistrict council says 12 mortar shells fell near a Shia mosque in Abu Karma village north of Abu Saida, without causing human casualties. [Sumaria]
Northern Diyala (Kifri, Khanaqin, etc.)
The Dijla Operations Commander says Iraqi forces, supported by the IAA, conducted a military operation in west Udhaim that destroyed 20 Daesh vehicles and many IEDs. The operation aims at clearing areas between Diyala and Salahuddin from Daesh sleeper cells. [Baghdadia]
DaeshDaily comment. The sleeper cells are still a major problem in that area. In most of Daesh publications, the terrorists in that area appear masked.
A security source says two National Security Service officers were wounded when an IED exploded on their security unit in a raid on the house of a man wanted on terrorism charges in the Himrin Hills area. [Sumaria]
A security source says eight civilians were killed when a Daesh IED targeted families from Hawija who were trying to escape through the Himrin Mountains area. [Sumaria]
Southern Diyala (Balad Ruz, Mandali)
Daesh says its snipers killed a PMF fighter in the Nida area in Mandali. [GooglePlus]
KIRKUK
Kirkuk
Daesh says it killed three Shia pilgrims with an IED in Kirkuk city. [A3maq]
Daesh says its snipers killed a Peshmerga fighter and wounded another on Mansouriya Mountain. [GooglePlus]
Daesh publishes photos of its snipers attacking Peshmerga positions and fighters in the Kirkuk area. [DawaAlhaq]
Hawija
A security source says Daesh conducted a parade in Hawija after bringing terrorists in from Mosul. He also says Daesh deployed more terrorists and planted more IEDs in Abbasi, Zab, and Riyadh to prevent people from leaving Hawija. [Mada]
DaeshDaily comment. Moving fighters from Mosul to Hawija would seem to make sense only if Daesh anticipates a government assault on Hawija before it tries to retake Mosul.
The Kirkuk Directorate of Displacement and Migration says it transported 1,200 displaced Hawija people from the Debaga and Dibis area camps to the Daquq camp. [Rudaw]
Southwest
A security source says the body of a man who was beheaded by Daesh 2 years ago was found in Bashir. [Sumaria]
NINEWA
Mosul
Mosul Campaign
Coalition airstrikes killed 36 Daesh members in multiple strikes in central Mosul according to a PUK official. [PUKMedia]
A large explosion was heard on the city’s eastern side and thick smoke was observed emanating from the site of the blast, but no further information was available, according to sources inside Mosul. According to another report, the site of the blast was a Daesh weapons cache. [Harbi] [Karemlash]
Daesh executed five young men in Mosul in public on allegations of cooperating with the Coalition, according to a Ninewa security source. The executions reportedly took place on Aleppo Street using knives to slit the victims’ throats. The security source suggested that the men may have been involved with the resistance against Daesh, including luring foreign Daesh fighters into fatal traps and marking Daesh vehicles as bombing targets. The security source also says a Daesh member was wounded in a stabbing attack in a northern area of the city, but Daesh hisbah captured the attackers. [Karemlash] [Rudaw]
Daesh has planted explosives in Mosul in preparation to detonate the bridges spans as well as several government buildings once the government launches its Mosul operation, local sources say. As reported earlier, Daesh appears to be gearing up for its major defensive stand on Mosul’s Right (western) Bank, and plans to destroy the bridges over the Tigris linking Mosul’s two halves. [Mawsleya]
Daesh has placed additional concrete barriers around Mosul to impede the advance of attacking Iraqi troops and allied fighters, including in Al-Arabi neighborhood in northern Mosul, local sources say. The new concrete walls have reportedly enclosed entire homes in some places. [Mawsleya]
Sources in Mosul again report that Daesh has established checkpoints around the city where its members are using computerized databases to search for fleeing Daesh members. [Mawsleya]
15,000 fighters of the “Ninewa Mobilization” will participate in the Mosul operations according to a decision made today by the “Special Committee for the Ninewa Mobilization;” so says a Ninewa PC member. The committee includes representatives of Ninewa’s provincial government in exile and the central Iraqi government, as well as of the KRG and the Coalition. The committee reportedly resolved that the Ninewa Mobilization would operate on four fronts: Rabia (in Tal Afar on Syrian border), Alqosh (northern Tel Keif), Qayara, and Makhmur, and will be tasked with supporting families fleeing the battle zone and enforcing secure corridors. [Mada]
The IFP commander says IFP and Rapid Intervention units and artillery are prepared for the Mosul battles. [Harbi]
The Al-Nujaba Movement, a Shia PMF faction, has claimed it will participate in the upcoming Mosul battles in remarks by an Al-Nujaba official to Mada. The official also said that preparations for the Mosul operations are ongoing at “the highest levels.” He also rejected recent remarks by Turkish President Erdogan, saying that Erdogan’s statements about intervention in Iraq came as Turkey’s policy in Aleppo was proven “bankrupt.” [Mada]
A Peshmerga commander in Bashiqa told Turkish media that according to the agreement between Baghdad and Erbil, even Shia soldiers in the Iraqi Army are not allowed to enter Mosul. [ARA]
DaeshDaily comment. The above statement adds credibility to a story by Sot Kurdistan, a website close to Gorran, which says Barzani might have changed his mind about his agreement with Abadi in Baghdad.
The Peshmerga Ministry spokesman says 2 Iraqi Army battalions arrived in Sheikhan. [ARA]
Mahmud Othman, a noted Kurdish political figure, says the Turkish troop presence in Ninewa is to target the PKK and not Daesh. [ROJ]
Conditions in Mosul
Daesh has vacated the churches of Mosul which it had diverted for other purposes, and is now preparing to destroy the structures in advance of the Mosul operations, according to local sources. [PressIraq] [Harbi]
Along with Daesh’s other preparations for the battle for Mosul comes this disturbing detail: Daesh is reportedly arming children, some as young as eight years old, and deploying them in the city bearing pistols, to report on residents’ activities. [Karemlash]
A local source says Daesh blocked 4 main bridges in Mosul using concrete walls. He also says Daesh deployed young boys in the city after many terrorists fled because of the lack of salaries. The source also says Daesh gave the command of its execution unit to a boy with German citizenship. [Sumaria]
Around 120 families in Mosul have been given 24 hours to change the names of their newborn children which Daesh found “inappropriate” to its “Islamic state,” a local source said. A Daesh committee reviewed the names and contacted the families directly, triggering resentment among the residents, the source said. [Sumaria]
Daesh has been selling off homes of former members of Iraq’s security services, government workers, and university professors in Ninewa at less than market rate, a local source said. One home valued at 100 million Iraqi dinars was sold for just 25 million, the source explained. [Sumaria]
DaeshDaily comment: Again we see Daesh trying to strip assets from Mosul and Ninewa as its time ruling the area nears its likely end. However this will only complicate matters in Mosul after the fall of Daesh, adding extra layers of property claims. Selling homes off at cut rates to new buyers might also create a class of people who dread what will happen to their homes at the end of Daesh rule in the city.
Mosul residents are selling their possessions such as jewelry, appliances, and other property to provide for their basic needs as supplies and incomes become ever scarcer in the city. [Mawsleya]
Shura/Hammam Alil
Renewed fighting has erupted between Daesh and residents of Hammam Al-Alil residents, a Mosul subdistrict south of the city, a resident said. Seven Daesh fighters were injured in the conflict, the resident added. Daesh reportedly has sent reinforcements to the battle. Daesh faced a popular uprising [intifada] in the area in the summertime. [Sumaria]
Qayara
Unidentified warplanes reportedly struck a Daesh communications center in Al-Najma village, destroying the center and killing those inside. [PressIraq]
As many as 30 or 40 Daesh members were reportedly killed in three rocket attacks southwest of Qayara at dawn on Wednesday. [PressIraq]
Nineveh Plain
Iraqi Army troops identified as hailing from the “16th Brigade” have gathered in Bashiqa amid preparations for the upcoming operations to recapture Mosul, according to the chairman of the Ninewa Governorate Council security committee, who also said that “Sunni militias” were massing in Bashiqa as well. “Participation of Shia militias in the operation will not be permitted in any form,” he added. [BasNews]
There are conflicting reports with respect to the alleged arrival of PMF forces to positions in Sheikhan District northeast of Mosul. On the one hand, “a well-paced Iraqi source” reportedly said that more than 30 heavily armed vehicles and “a large number of Shia fighters” had arrived in Sheikhan, bearing the flag of Iraq and banners of Imam Hussein and the PMFs, chanting “Mosul, Mosul, we have come!” In the same report a contingent of 200 Iraqi Army Hummers supported by tanks arrived at Mosul Dam. [Bawaba] However, according to another report, an official in the Peshmerga Ministry of the KRG denied that the PMFs had reached Sheikhan. [IndependenceNews]
Daesh says it targeted Peshmerga positions near Ain Al-Safra Mountain with 8 mortars. [GooglePlus]
Northwest (Tal Afar, Sinjar)
Daesh says one of its suicide terrorists attacked a Peshmerga battalion in Aski Mosul village with an explosives vest. Daesh says that 2 hours after the first attack another suicide terrorist attacked the Peshmerga who came to rescue the wounded fighters with another explosives vest. [A3maq]
A Daesh member in Mahalbiya in the Tal Afar area killed his father after the father denounced Awwad Baghdadi, Daesh’s “caliph,” the father describing Baghdadi as a “dog,” according to a source in Ninewa. [Sumaria]
Daesh publishes 3 photos of fixing shops that were destroyed by airstrikes in Tal Abta. [DawaAlhaq]
KURDISTAN
Turkish news agency Dogan, close to the Turkish military, says Turkish military reinforcements arrived at the Fayshkhabur border crossing in northwest Dahuk near Zakho. It says some of these troops will support the Turkish forces in Bashiqa and some will fight the PKK in nearby areas in Turkey. [SotKurdistan]
SOUTHERN IRAQ
Kerbala
The Mid-Euphrates Operations Commander says more than 4,000,000 Iraqis and 500,000 Iranians and other foreigners participated in the Ashura ceremonies in Kerbala. He says no security violations were registered in the city during the ceremonies. [Anadolu]
REPORTS FROM TURKEY
President Erdogan says half of the weapons Washington sends to Syria go to Daesh and the other half go to the PYD. [ARA]
German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s cabinet on Wednesday approved deployment of additional German troops to Turkey to help operate NATO surveillance aircraft as part of the U.S-led fight against Daesh.
The Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) aircraft will be based at Konya air base in southern Turkey, and used for reconnaissance in support of airstrikes against Daesh targets.
Germany provides about one-third of the crews used to operate and maintain NATO’s AWACS planes, but German law requires that individual missions must be approved by parliament. The number of troops involved was not provided.
Germany already has about 500 military personnel involved in the anti-Daesh fight effort, including over 240 at Incirlik air base in Turkey to operate six Tornado surveillance aircraft and a refueling plane. Others are on board a German frigate operating in the eastern Mediterranean with the French aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle. [Reuters]
REPORTS FROM SYRIA
Pope Francis, in his strongest appeal to date on the conflict in Syria, on Wednesday called for an “immediate ceasefire” to allow for the evacuation of civilians.
“It is with a sense of urgency that I renew my appeal, imploring those responsible with all my strength for an immediate ceasefire,” he said before tens of thousands of people at his weekly general audience in St. Peter’s Square. [Reuters]
The Coalition spokesman, Colonel John Dorian, says the Coalition, in coordination with NATO and local partners, have captured 37 villages from Daesh in north Aleppo. [ARA]
A Turkish Ministry of Defense official says 7 Turkish Army artillery and tanks destroyed 77 Daesh targets, killing 19 terrorists, while Coalition planes killed 18, in north Aleppo during the last 24 hours. He also says eight opposition group fighters were killed and twenty-two others wounded. He says Daesh is heavily resisting in north Aleppo. [ARA]
The Coalition says it conducted 11 airstrikes on Daesh targets in Syria, on or near Mare’ (4), Manbij (1), Raqqa (1), Deir Ez-Zor (4) and Albu Kamal (1)). [InherentResolve]
Northeast (Hasaka, Raqqa)
Hasaka
An Asayesh source says the Turkish Army has started to dig a trench in the border area between Tal Abyad and Turkey. Local sources say the trench is actually on Syrian territory. [BasNews] [Hawar]
Turkish Army shot and wounded a 13-year-old boy 30km (19 miles) east of Ras Al-Ayn. [Hawar]
Daesh publishes 2 photos of a group of its fighters in Hasaka. The photos show mostly young boys. [DawaAlhaq]
Northwest (Aleppo, Idlib)
Aleppo city
Eighty-one people, including women and children, were killed and tens others wounded by Russian airstrikes on Aleppo. [Dorar]
Azaz
Opposition groups say they recaptured Duwaibik village after heavy battles with Daesh. The opposition also captured Kufra village, and battled heavily with Daesh inside Ihtaimlat. [Qasioun] [Qasioun]
An opposition group commander says the opposition, supported by Coalition planes and Turkish Army artillery, captured Hamzat village and surrounding farms after heavy battles with Daesh, killing many terrorists and destroying 3 vehicles. [ARA]
Daesh says four civilians, including a child, were killed by an “American” airstrike near Tal Battal village, south of Al-Ra’i on Tuesday. [A3maq]
Manbij
A 15-year-old boy lost his sight in the Daesh terrorist attack on Al-Mashi village yesterday. Eleven people were killed and six wounded, including children. Daesh claimed yesterday the victims were PKK members. [Hawar]
Daesh says it killed five “PKK” members in attack on Maqta’ Hajar Kabir village, southwest of Manbij. [A3maq]
An SDF source says American planes brought 300 tons of humanitarian aid to a military base in south Kobane for transport to Manbij city. [BasNews]
Central and West (Homs, Hama, etc.)
Russian and Syrian warplanes targeted several areas north of Homs with more than 100 airstrikes, killing at least three children and two women, and wounding tens of people. [ARA]
Daesh says it targeted Syrian Army positions southeast of Huwaisis with mortars. [GooglePlus]
East (Deir Ez-Zor)
Daesh launched an attack on Syrian Army and allied militia positions in Hay Al-Haweiqa in Deir Ez-Zor, killing eight Syrian soldiers and militia men. Battles also erupted near Hay Al-Rashidiya in the city while the Syrian Army targeted the area with rockets. Warplanes attacked Daesh positions near Deir Ez-Zor Military Airport. [Qasioun] [ARA]
Daesh issues a propaganda video of its attacks on the Syrian Army in Deir Ez-Zor. [DawaAlhaq]
Daesh publishes photos of a bread factory in Deir Ez-Zor. [DawaAlhaq]
South (Rif Damashq, Suwayda, Daraa, etc.)
Daesh issues a video of a Nusra member who surrendered to its terrorists in the Yarmouk Camp. [A3maq]
OTHER MIDDLE EAST/NORTH AFRICA REPORTS
Neighboring countries
Lebanon
The Lebanon Hezbollah leader, Hasan Nasrallah, warns Iraqis that the United States wants to open a road for Daesh from Mosul to Raqqa. [BasNews]
Daesh Daily comment. While we thank Mr. Nasrallah for his concern for Iraq, we think that he is still affected by the Cold War era propaganda, which is getting kind of old as he could tell from reading the news these days. Iraq can do much better without Mr. Nasrallah’s interference. The same claim has been reported by Russian media, who quoted a “diplomatic source.”
North Africa
Egypt
Local sources say the bodies of a man and his wife, who were kidnapped by the ABM from their house in Arish two days ago, were found. ABM had accused the victims of cooperating with the security forces. [ElWatan] Yesterday it was reported that only the man’s body was found.
A security source says ABM terrorists killed a 15-year-old boy while they were attacking a security unit that was conducting a search in Arish. [ElWatan]
A security source says a 53-year-old man was shot and wounded by armed men on the coastal road in Arish. [ElWatan]
Libya
Northeast
Daesh says it targeted RNA soldiers with T55 tank shells in the Qawarsha area. [GooglePlus]
Central coast
The GNA Military spokesman says the Sirte battle is “militarily resolved”, and Daesh’s remaining terrorists are trapped and lost. [AfriGate]
However, there are fears that some Daesh terrorists might have escaped to areas east of Sirte. [AfriGate]
A GNA Military spokesman says Libyan planes conducted 4 airstrikes on Daesh positions in Sirte, killing 15 terrorists. [Libya24]
A GNA Military source says a land mine planted by a Daesh sleeper cell exploded on a GNA Military vehicle on the coastal road, without causing casualties. [Wasat]
Daesh says it destroyed 3 GNA military vehicles with IEDs on the coastal road between Sirte and Misrata. [A3maq]
Daesh publishes photos of the results of American airstrikes on Sirte. [DawaAlhaq]
Tunisia
A Tunisian border security unit captured 2 Daesh Tunisian terrorists who were coming back from Libya. [Libya24]
Morocco
The Morocco Ministry of Interior says it captured 2 Daesh terrorists in Tetouan and Fnideq. The terrorists were from a Daesh cell and were recruiting terrorists to join Daesh in Iraq and Syria. [Akhbar24]
Other countries
Afghanistan
The UN Mission in Afghanistan issued a statement condemning the attack at the Karte Shakhi mosque and shrine in Kabul that killed at least eighteen civilians and injured more than fifty others.
An attacker wearing an Afghan security forces uniform entered the Shia mosque as civilians congregated on the eve of the Muslim Shia day of remembrance, Ashura. The attacker opened fire on the congregation and used a hand grenade, killing and maiming worshipers. Among those killed were four women and two children, a boy and a girl. [ReliefWeb]
This second deadly attack on Afghanistan’s Shia community has meant at least thirty-two have been killed in less than 24 hours. The first attack was on Tuesday night, when a gunman killed 18 people at a Shia shrine in Kabul. [Anadolu]
Daesh says one of its suicide terrorists attacked Shia pilgrims at a shrine in Kabul with a machine gun and then with an explosives vest that carried 13kg of explosives. Daesh says at least fourteen people were killed, including Afghani soldiers, and fourteen wounded, including a police officer. Daesh says 30 minutes after the first attack another terrorist attacked the shrine with a machine gun and an explosives vest, killing thirty “security and intelligence” members. [A3maq] [A3maq]
DaeshDaily comment. While many countries, other than some in the Gulf, condemned the attacks, no real efforts are seen to counter the ideology that created such crimes. Killing civilians is a crime; killing civilians in the name of God is pre-historic heathen. Unfortunately, the literature that supports these crimes is distributed everywhere in the world, and the goal of this ideology is not to kill the Shia only.
The Turkish Minister of Foreign Affairs issued a statement condemning the attacks on the Shia civilians in Afghanistan. [Anadolu]
SOCIAL MEDIA
Photos of American actor Morgan Freeman attending a Shia ceremony in London as part of his documentary “The Story of God with Morgan Freeman”. [Twitter]
Iraq
The name of the armed group known as the “National Mobilization Forces,” which was organized by former Ninewa Governor Atheel Al-Nujaifi, and which is stationed in Camp Zilkan in Bashiqa has been changed, according to Al-Nujaifi. The new name of the group is the “Ninewa Guard,” according to a Facebook Post by Nujaifi. [Sumaria]
A video of PMF leaders threatening Turkey over its troop deployment in Bashiqa, saying the Iraqis have no conflict with the “peaceful” Turkish people but will not tolerate Turkish military presence on Iraqi soil. [YouTube]
Photos of military vehicles of the Iraqi Counter-Terrorism Service headed for the front. [Facebook]
Video purportedly shows Iraqi column headed for the Mosul operations. [YouTube]
Photos of the Iraqi Army Chief of Staff inspecting preparations for Mosul operations. [Facebook]
Syria
Video from battle between FSA and Daesh near the Iraqi border in Hasaka governorate. [YouTube]
Daesh supporters claimed (unconfirmed reports) that 90 Jund Al-Aqsa fighters joined Daesh in Raqqa. Jund is designated as a terrorist organization by the US and has recently joined Nusra, but some of its members prefer Daesh. [Ana Al-Muslim]
A map shows recent FSA gains against Daesh north of Aleppo. [Twitter]
A video of Daesh young boys on the frontlines in Deir Ez-Zor. The video shows the boys joking about the bad conditions they face. [BasNews]
Al-Qaeda supporters say 150,000 Wahhabi pamphlets were distributed in Ghouta east of Damascus during the last 2 months. [Ana Al-Muslim]
A video of Ajnad Al-Sham (opposition group) fighters beating up school teachers in Damascus in front of the children because the teachers opened a school that competes with a religious school run by Ajnad. [Twitter] [ZamanAlWasl]
Daesh supporters publish a list of prohibited terms, issued by the Daesh affiliate, Khaled Army. Speaking any of these terms is punishable by death. According to Daesh ideology, these automatically make you a kafir. The list contains some common Syrian terms. [Arabi21]
DAESH MEDIA
Daesh audio newsletter for today [Bayan]
