October 18, 2016
Iraqis-Celebrating-the-Liberation-of-Hamdaniya
Today’s Major Developments
Turkey horns in on Coalition air support for Mosul. [..]
Erdogan plays sectarian card in latest bombastic statement on Turkish troops. [..]
Iraqi Army Chief of Staff says Mosul campaign is ahead of schedule. [..]
Resistance movement gains momentum within Mosul. [..]
Daesh executes 40 men and boys in Hammam Al-Alil. [..]
Iraqi Federal Police units reach Shura subdistrict on move north from Qayara. [..]
Army, Peshmerga capture 25 villages east of Mosul, claim control of Hamdaniya District. [..]
Turkey-supported opposition groups capture 7 villages in Azaz District, Syria; near government lines. [..]
Conditions called dire at refugee camp by Jordan border with 70,000 people. [..]
REPORTS FROM IRAQ
NATIONAL NEWS
Turkey’s Minister of Defense says in a press conference in Rome that Turkey has reached an agreement with the Coalition to allow Turkish planes to participate in the liberation. The Turkish Prime Minister says the Turkish planes will be part of the Coalition. He says Turkey doesn’t need approvals from “the others” to participate in the Mosul battle. [Anadolu] [Rudaw] [IraqPress] [BasNews] [Mada]
However, the Prime Minister later said Turkish planes haven’t participated in the Mosul battle, but will do so at the “right time”. [Sumaria]
Turkey’s President Erdogan says Turkey doesn’t want to be involved in sectarian conflicts in Iraq. At the same time, Turkey doesn’t want “our brothers”, the Sunni Arabs and Turkmen, to be preys to anyone. He says Turkey will not allow sectarian conflict to start in Mosul. Erdogan also says “They say 30,000 Shia militants are coming. They should be prepared for what they will face.” He says Turkey has a “historical responsibility” in Iraq [ARA]
DaeshDaily comment. Erdogan is the one who is creating the sectarian conflict here. It raises the question of whether his entire Ninewa power play is just an extension of Turkey’s sectarian antipathy to Iraq’s Shia-majority government. He is so self-delusional now that he can’t see that he is contradicting himself. We recall learning that Goebbels talked about Hitler’s “historical responsibility.” Turkey remains the biggest potential obstacle to the success of the Mosul liberation campaign.
The Turkish Minister of Foreign Affairs Mezlut Cavusoglu says Turkey has reached a deal with Iraq regarding the “artificial” dispute about the Turkish military presence in Bashiqa. [Sumaria]
However, Prime Minister Abadi says the Turkish delegation that came to Baghdad didn’t submit approvable suggestions. He says the Turkish interference is Iraqi affairs is dangerous. [Mada]
Iraq’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ibrahim Al-Jaafari, arrived in Brussels for the NATO meeting to discuss NATO’s support for Iraq and how to end the Turkish military presence in Ninewa, according to a statement from his office. [Sumaria]
The US Ambassador to Iraq, Douglas Silliman, issues a video message to Iraqi security forces expressing the US support in the Ninewa campaign. [YouTube]
Prime Minister Abadi says there is no arbitrary shelling or bombing on Mosul. He also says Iraqi forces have opened secured roads for the civilians. [Sumaria]
Russian sources say the Daesh leader, Awwad Baghdadi, might have died near the Iraqi-Syrian border. They say Baghdadi was unable to move after being severely wounded by an airstrike in west Anbar last year. [IraqPress]
DaeshDaily comment. We have been speculating about this ourselves for some time. Baghdadi has not appeared in public in a very long time. Even if he were somehow reclusive, one would expect him to try to rally his troops in the current situation. Daesh media people have reported him going to certain places or making important decisions lately, but these Baghdadi “sightings” have not been accompanied by a photograph, and Daesh is generally eager to issue photos. The longer time goes on, the less likely his return to action seems to be. As of now, Baghdadi’s reported appearances are more like Elvis sightings.
The Council of Ministers approved financial grants for the families of the Speicher Massacre victims. [Mada]
A Christian CoR member says 500 Christian fighters are participating with the Iraqi Army and the Peshmerga in the Ninewa liberation. [Sumaria]
The Italian Minister of Defense says the Italian troops in Ninewa will not participate in the Mosul liberation battle. [Anadolu]
PMF leaders including Moqtada Al-Sadr, the Badr Commander, and the AAH Commander held a press conference after a meeting in Sadr’s house in Najaf about the Mosul liberation campaign. They expressed their support for Iraqi forces, and their rejection of the Turkish troop presence in Iraq. When a reporter asked Abu Mahdi Al-Muhandis, the PMFs deputy commissioner, why Prime Minister Abadi didn’t mention the PMFs in discussing the Mosul liberation, he said it might have been a mistake. He was corrected at once by the Badr Commander, Hadi Al-Ameri, who said Abadi was “precise.” The PMFs and the Peshmerga will not enter Mosul, and only the Iraqi Army and IFP will do so. [Rudaw] [YouTube]
A Badr CoR member says the Syrian government should close its border with Iraq to prevent Daesh terrorists from fleeing to Syria. [Sumaria]
DaeshDaily comment. Well, the Syrian regime didn’t close the border when it could, and allowed thousands of terrorists to enter in Iraq. Now, it obviously can’t. We have a feeling that this statement might be an indication that some PMFs will go to the border.
Sir Julian King, the EU Commissioner for Security, said in an interview with the German newspaper Die Welt that Islamists can easily make it into Europe, even with fake IDs. “Re-taking the (Daesh) stronghold in northern Iraq can lead to a scenario in which violent militants would return to Europe,” he told the newspaper. “This is a very serious threat and we must be prepared to face it.” [ARA]
Saddam Deputy Izzat Al-Douri denied in a phone interview with a London based Arabic newspaper that there is any relationship between the Baath party and Daesh. He also apologized for Saddam’s invasion of Kuwait. [DawaAlhaq]
DaeshDaily comment. Mr. Al-Douri is the same person who praised Daesh in a video message, calling it the head of the “resistance” in Iraq.
The Coalition says it conducted 7 airstrikes on Daesh targets in Iraq, around Mosul (4), Qayara (2), and Al-Qa’im (1). [InherentResolve]
BAGHDAD
Security-related incidents reported
Northwest (Kadhimiya, etc.)
A security source says one person was killed and six wounded when a sticky IED exploded under a small bus in Hurriya. [Ghad]
Southeast (Mada’in, etc.)
A security source says one civilian was killed and four wounded when an IED exploded near a commercial area in Nahrawan. [Baghdadia]
South (Dora, Yusufiyah, Mahmudiya, etc.)
Iraqi Army 17th brigade found 3 IEDs and other explosives in the Shabisha area. [BOC Facebook Page]
Iraqi Army 55th brigade found 10 IEDs and other explosives in the Mullah Rushdi area. [BOC Facebook Page]
Iraqi Army 23rd brigade destroyed a Daesh guesthouse and defused 4 IEDs in the Bizayez area. [BOC Facebook Page]
Southwest (Rasheed, etc.)
An IFP unit defused an IED planted in a garden in a house in Hay Al-Jihad. [BOC Facebook Page]
West (Ghazaliya, Abu Ghraib, etc.)
A police source says a civilian was killed and five wounded when an IED exploded near a commercial area in Bakriya. [Maalomah]
Total Baghdad incidents reported: 7 (Includes only incidents reported)
ANBAR
Falluja
The Mayor of Falluja District says 13,000 displaced families returned to their houses since the city was liberated. [BasNews]
The Falluja Police Chief says security forces captured a Daesh commander who was trying to sneak into Falluja city with displaced families. He says the terrorist is the brother of Daesh’s “minister of finance” in Anbar. [Mada]
Hit/Haditha
A Tribal PMF commander says security forces found a mass grave containing the bodies of 80 Daesh fighters in the Qusairiyat area. [Mada]
The IWMC says Iraqi forces captured and cleared the Haditha-Baiji road. [Ghad]
Rutba/Western Anbar
The Anbar Operations Commander says Coalition planes killed 9 Daesh terrorists in an airstrike near the Syrian border in Al-Qa’im. He says Iraqi forces will liberate the remaining areas in west Anbar in the coming days. [BasNews]
A Tribal PMF commander says 6 Daesh terrorists were killed when a vehicle bomb they were rigging exploded on them in Rawa. [Maalomah]
SALAHUDDIN
Shirqat
Daesh says it targeted Iraqi forces’ supply lines to Mosul in the Tilul Al-Baj area with 2 suicide attacks, killing 33 fighters and destroying 5 Humvees and 6 other vehicles. [A3maq]
Daesh issues a video of its claimed attack on Iraqi Army supply lines in the Tilul Al-Baj area. The video doesn’t show any Iraqi troops. [A3maq]
Daesh publishes photos of an attack on Iraqi forces in Tilul Al-Baj. [DawaAlhaq]
Daesh says it recaptured the brick factory near Khanuqa village south of Shirqat. Daesh says the battles are still ongoing. [A3maq] [GooglePlus]
Daesh publishes photos of the 2 Iraqi suicide terrorists in Tilul Al-Baj. [DawaAlhaq]
DIYALA
Northern Diyala (Kifri, Khanaqin, etc.)
A PMF commander says his troops found a Daesh suicide terrorists’ guesthouse in the Himrin Hills area. [Sumaria]
KIRKUK
Kirkuk
Daesh says it assassinated a Shia cleric in the Tis’in area and a KDP member in the Ronaki area in Kirkuk city on Monday. [A3maq]
NINEWA
The Mosul operation is proceeding ahead of schedule due to the deterioration of Daesh defenses, Iraqi Army Chief of Staff Gen. Othman Al-Ghanimi said. [Mada]
Daesh says Iraqi Joint Forces, supported by Coalition planes captured 4 village in Hamdaniya (Kharbat Sultan, Balawat, Badana Saghira, and Basakhra), and 4 villages in Qayara (Al-Hawd, Lazaga, Zawiya, and Najma), while Daesh captured Qababi village. [A3maq]
Daesh issues a video of Peshmerga units allegedly fleeing after a suicide attack southeast of Mosul. The vehicles in the video don’t actually seem to be in a hurry. [A3maq]
Mosul
Military developments in Mosul
A local source says Daesh deployed its terrorists in Mosul major entrances and provided them with “death lists” containing the names of Daesh defectors who participated in the coup yesterday. The source says Daesh found 3 of these members and executed them on the spot. The source also says Daesh prevented its members from leaving the city without security approval. [Sumaria]
Daesh has finished its operation to plant explosives on the four bridges over the Tigris and the old governorate building in central Mosul, local sources say. [Mawsleya]
Eyewitnesses say Daesh deployed several caravans (portable office trailers) that may be filled with explosives in the eastern side of Mosul in order to detonate them on Iraqi forces. [IraqPress]
Daesh arrested a large number of young men in Mosul fearing that they could rise up against Daesh rule, a member of the Ninewa Liberation authority said on Tuesday. [Sumaria]
“Signs of the launching of an uprising” are visible in Mosul Tuesday as six different Daesh patrols were targeted in a five-hour period in multiple areas of Mosul, a local source said. The results of the attack were not reported. Daesh is losing its “iron grip” on Mosul’s people, the source added. [Sumaria]
Assailants identified as local youths attacked a Daesh branch in the Al-Qahira neighborhood of eastern Mosul, killing two Daesh members, burning the center and two Daesh vehicles before raising the Iraqi flag on the building and fleeing the area, a local source said. The attack is reportedly the first of its kind. [Sumaria]
A local source says young men from Mosul attacked a Daesh patrol in the Bab Al-Bidh area, killing 3 Daesh terrorists. [Mawazin]
Resistance slogans calling for an anti-Daesh uprising and supporting the Iraqi security agencies are increasingly visible in Mosul’s neighborhoods, a local source said. Daesh has been accusing the people of Mosul of “betraying” the caliphate over its loudspeakers from its vehicles in the city. The source said Daesh has begun to abandon its familiar methods of retribution against the areas where the slogans appear, for fear of sparking more reaction. [Sumaria]
Mosul liberation campaign
The Intelligence Directorate and the Counter-Terrorism Force played a prominent role in determining the launch date (“zero hour”) of the Mosul operation, dubbed “We are Coming O Ninewa,” through the work of an Intelligence task force formed over a year ago comprised of Ninewa intelligence officers and staff, according to an unnamed intelligence source. The team is still operating inside Mosul city, the source added, gathering and photographing Daesh documents for use after the city is captured. Mosul’s population is awaiting a second “zero hour” for the launch of a popular uprising [intifada] against Daesh rule, the source added. [Mada]
Iraqi Army Air units and Coalition warplanes conducted 16 airstrikes on Daesh targets in Mosul, destroying 13 Daesh targets, the Iraqi Army Air commander said. More than 40 Iraqi aircraft are involved in the Mosul operation, he said. [Mada]
Iraqi F-16 jets destroyed a Daesh IED and explosives workshop in the Al-Ta’mim neighborhood in central Mosul, a security source said. [Etejah]
It was confirmed that an airstrike in central Mosul killed the deputy emir of the Daesh “Usra Army” on Tuesday, a Ninewa security source said. [Mawazin]
Conditions in Mosul
Mobile phone service has resumed in Mosul, a local source said. Daesh members have disappeared from the streets of Mosul but market areas remain closed. Residents are staying home and following events by phone and over the Internet. [Ghad]
Daesh members are continuing their flight from eastern Mosul to the city’s western bank, local sources said. [Mawsleya]
Daesh has been removing the major traffic signs in some of the areas it controls in order to hide evidence of the defeats it expects to sustain, a local source said. [Sumaria]
Daesh has been burning its financial and commercial files in its hisbah centers and “sharia courts” in central Mosul to prevent them falling into the hands of Iraqi security agencies, a local source said. [Sumaria]
Local sources say Daesh ordered the terrorists to burn down their headquarters in Mosul. The sources also say Daesh ordered people to remain in their houses in order to use them as human shields. [Mawazin]
Daesh issues a video of its fighters deployed in Mosul city. [A3maq]
DaeshDaily comment. We have the feeling that we’ve seen this story before. Claims of defiance, deployed fighters, people talking in the streets about normal lives, and so on. The story usually ends with shaved beards or dead bodies.
Shura/Hammam Alil
A local source says Daesh terrorists, dressed in Iraqi forces uniforms and in vehicles carrying Iraqi flags, are moving in areas not yet liberated south of Mosul in order to arrest people who show support for Iraqi forces. The source says this is how Daesh captured the 40 people in Hammam Al-Alil and executed them. [Maalomah]
DaeshDaily comment. The same trick was reported in the Manbij area earlier.
A local source says Daesh forced the residents of 16 villages south of Mosul to go to Mosul city, fearing a rebellion against it, and also to use them as human shields. [Buratha]
Daesh is tunneling from the Baghdad Roundabout in southwestern Mosul to the Hammam Al-Alil Crossing on the Mosul-Baghdad highway, according to local sources. [Ghad]
Iraqi Joint Forces troops captured the village of Abbasiya near Hammam Al-Alil district center Tuesday morning, a security source said. [Mada]
A Ninewa Operations Command source says an Iraqi Army sniper killed a Daesh Libyan commander who was trying to flee Hammam Al-Alil. [Maalomah]
Daesh issues a video of the results of an “American” airstrike on a health center in Hammam Al-Alil. [A3maq]
DaeshDaily comment. And how was Daesh using that health center?
The IFP Commander says Rapid Intervention Units destroyed a Daesh vehicle bomb on the Mosul International Highway, killing the terrorists inside. [Buratha]
The IFP Commander says Iraqi forces cleared Baljoniya village in Shura subdistrict, and freed more than 100 families. [Buratha]
Rocket units of the Rapid Deployment Force fired on Daesh positions in the Al-Mishraq Chemical Plant, the IWMC announced. [Ghad]
Qayara/Makhmur
The IFP announced the capture of a “wide area” south of Mosul on Tuesday. Federal Police have liberated the village of Tal Al-Saman and have reached the Shura subdistrict, Iraqi Federal Police (IFP) Commander Ra’ed Shakir Jawdat said. [Sumaria] [Sumaria]
The IFP Commander says his troops have cleared 352 square km (137 square miles). [Sumaria]
Qayara Police commander “Lt. Col. Fathi” announced that his force’s operations have reached their “second phase” and that his units would announce the beginning of the invasion of Mosul city “in the coming hours,” saying that most Daesh fighters had fled the areas outside of Mosul and decamped to the city itself. Eighty percent of the area south of Mosul has been recaptured from Daesh, Fathi said. He also praised what he called the cooperation among the various elements of the Iraqi security forces and cooperation from the population of Ninewa. [Mada] [Mada]
IFP announced the liberation of the village of Al-Bijawaniya Al-Sufla. [Sumaria]
Iraqi Federal Police captured 56 oil wells south of Mosul near the village of Ayn Al-Jahsh, a security source said. [Mada]
PMFs and Iraqi Rapid Response Force Troops reportedly received civilians fleeing the village of Al-Bayda who were raising the white flag. [Harbi]
Daesh says it conducted a suicide attack on PMF units near Al-Abbas village and Kani Harami village in Makhmur, destroying 9 vehicles and an Abrams tank. [A3maq] [A3maq]
Photos purportedly show IFP rescuing over 100 civilians who had been Daesh prisoners. [Forat]
Federal Police and PMF fighters killed “Abd Dawood Fahd” the Daesh security official for Al-Hawd, the IWMC said in a statement. [Ghad]
An IFP major says Coalition planes destroyed 5 Daesh vehicle bombs that attacked Iraqi forces and civilians in Al-Hawd and Naifa villages. He also says Coalition planes destroyed a Daesh vehicle bomb in Bijawaniya village. He says the IFP liberated Saawiya and Muhandis villages in Qayara subdistrict, killing tens of terrorists. He says people of the villages cooperated with Iraqi forces during the military operations. [BasNews]
Daesh says it killed or wounded fifteen Iraqi soldiers after rocketing a house in Al-Hawd village. It also says it damaged an Abrams tank and destroyed a Humvee near the same village. [A3maq]
Daesh says it destroyed an Iraqi Army Humvee and damaged a BMP armored vehicle near Al-Hawd village. [A3maq]
Daesh issues a video of targeting an Iraqi Abrams tank and a BMP armored vehicle near Al-Hawd. [A3maq]
Federal Police and PMF fighters destroyed four Daesh vehicle bombs near the Abu Naif village, a PMF statement said. [Ghad]
Daesh has placed explosives-rigged “caravans” every four kilometers (2.5 miles) along the road in the southern villages leading to Mosul city, a PMF statement said. [Ghad]
Daesh says it recaptured Adla and Ibrahim Al-Khalil villages, southeast of Mosul. It also says it broke the siege of Iraqi forces on Al-Abbas village east of Mosul. [A3maq]
Here Daesh says it captured Ibrahim Al-Khalil village, in Makhmur’s Gwer subdistrict, after the Peshmerga and PMFs fled. [A3maq]
Daesh says it killed three Iraqi soldiers in an attack on Najma village, in the oilfield area west of Qayara. [A3maq]
Daesh says it killed thirteen Iraqi soldiers and destroyed an Iraqi forces tank and 3 vehicles in a suicide attack near Najma village. [A3maq] [A3maq]
Iraqi Army troops repelled a Daesh suicide attack comprised of suicide bombers and vehicle bombs in 1the Al-Nassr village on the Tigris on Tuesday, killing three Daesh attackers, the Army’s 91st Brigade spokesman said. [Sumaria]
In a separate report, seemingly about the same incident, Iraqi troops foiled a Daesh suicide vehicle bomb attack west of Makhmur city, a PUK official said. In subsequent fighting, one Iraqi soldier and three Daesh members were killed. [PUKMedia]
Daesh says it conducted a suicide attack with a vehicle bomb on Iraqi forces near Al-Nassr village. [A3maq]
Nineveh Plain
The Iraqi official TV says Iraqi forces have liberated 25 villages so far. They have also killed 23 Daesh terrorists and destroyed 22 vehicle bombs. It says one of the dead terrorists was the Daesh military commander of the Nineveh Plain who was killed in Bartella. [Maalomah]
The Daesh security commander for the Nineveh Plain, “Waad Younis” was reportedly killed Tuesday by an unidentified Iraqi security force. [Waradana]
Hamdaniya
A field source told BasNews that Iraqi Joint Forces now control all of Hamdaniya District. [BasNews]
Iraqi troops reportedly raised the Iraqi flag over the Hamdaniya mayoralty building Tuesday. [Waradana]
A Joint Iraqi Army and Counter-Terrorism force raided the city of Qaraqosh and advanced slowly on account of Daesh IEDs in the area, a security source said. A security source later said the city was completely liberated. [Mawazin] [Sumaria]
A security source says Iraqi Army 9th division liberated Mashriq in Nimrud subdistrict, killing 5 terrorists and destroying 2 Humvees. [Mada]
Daesh says it destroyed 2 Abrams tanks and a PMF Humvee near Hamdaniya Intersection and in Shahid Subhi village. [A3maq]
Daesh says it destroyed 2 Iraqi Army Abrams tanks and a PMF Humvee near Kahnash village in Bartella and Balawat village SE of Qaraqosh. [A3maq]
Daesh says it killed or wounded Iraqi soldiers in an ambush near Al-Abbas village. [A3maq]
Daesh issues a video of battles with the Peshmerga on Monday. [A3maq]
Five Daesh members surrendered to Iraqi units in Hamdaniya late Monday night, according to a security source. The Daesh members said that most of the Daesh commanders and officials had fled Hamdaniya. [Maalomah]
A medical source says 6 Peshmerga fighters were killed in the battles against Daesh in the Al-Khazer area. [ROJ]
The KRG President Masoud Barzani visited the Peshmerga in the frontlines and congratulated them on the victories on Daesh. [BasNews]
Photos of Peshmerga fighters east of Mosul [Rudaw]
Bashiqa
IAA airships carried out heavy airstrikes on the Bashiqa area Tuesday. There were reports of “tens” of Daesh killed in the attacks, including “commanders and emirs” of various nationalities, according to Lt. Gen. Abd Al-Wahhab Al-Saedi who is overseeing Ninewa Operations. [Maalomah]
Tel Keif
Iraqi Army helicopters performed patrol and reconnaissance flight missions over Mosul Dam on Tuesday. [PressIraq]
Earlier in the day Iraqi Army troops of the Ninth Division 34th Brigade and Counter-Terrorism troops surrounded Hamdaniya city from four directions and began rocket and artillery attacks on the area in preparation for storming the city, a well-placed security source said. [Mada]
Northwest (Tal Afar, Sinjar)
Eyewitnesses says Daesh arrested 90 men from Abu Maria village, 15 km east of Tal Afar, and forced their families to live in the city in order to use them as human shields. [IraqPress]
South (Baaj, Hatra)
Daesh terrorists are fleeing Mosul to Syria through either Tal Afar or Baaj. A convoy of 150 Daesh vehicles fled toward Syria through Baaj on Monday. [IraqPress]
SOUTHERN IRAQ
Basra
A security source says security units found IEDs and explosives materials in the Laya area near the Saudi border, north of Basra. The source says the IEDs were planned to target Shia pilgrims during the upcoming Arba’in ceremonies. [Mada]
DaeshDaily comment. Putting in mind that the ceremonies are more than a month from now, we know that the terrorists are planning way ahead of time.
REPORTS FROM TURKEY
There was an early morning police raid in Ankara on a rented ninth floor apartment suspected of housing a Daesh group that was planning a suicide bombing. The only person in the apartment opened fire on the police and died in the ensuing shoot out. The police seized explosives and other materials used in suicide bombings in the raid. [Cumhuriyet]
A video of Ebu Mustafa Imami, leader of the Turkmen in Kirkurk, speaking in local Turkmen dialect (with subtitles in standard Turkish), launches into a bitter assault on the Turkish government asking where they were when his people were under attack from Daesh and now that they have created a force to defend themselves, why Ankara has never given them any support, even verbal. [Cumhuriyet]
DaeshDaily comment. We thank our friend in Turkey for these two reports.
REPORTS FROM SYRIA
Erdogan threatened to kick the PYD out of Manbij after the Turkey-supported opposition groups capture Al-Bab. [Dorar]
Russia’s Minister of Defense says Russian planes stopped their attacks on Aleppo on Tuesday morning, 2 days before the date that was previously stated. [Dorar]
The Coalition says it conducted 18 airstrikes on Daesh targets in Syria, on or near Shaddadi (8) and Ain Eissa (11); Mare’ (4); Idlib (1), Tadmur (1), and Albu Kamal (3). [InherentResolve]
Northeast (Hasaka, Raqqa)
Hasaka
An SDF source says a vehicle bomb exploded on an SDF security barrier in Jalal village near Shaddadi, causing human casualties. [BasNews]
6,100 Iraqi refugees are in Al-Hawl camp in Hasaka, according to the camp’s official. He says the numbers of Iraqi refugees is increasing every day. [Rudaw]
A twenty-year-old man died from wounds he sustained from the Daesh suicide attack on a wedding in Hasaka two weeks ago. [Hawar]
A local source says Daesh took the houses of some of their Syrian terrorists in Markada and gave them to the terrorists who fled Mosul. The source also says Daesh moved the families of some of the terrorists to areas east of Deir Ez-Zor and put them in schools. [ARA]
Daesh publishes photos of a small bridge that was destroyed by a Coalition airstrike in Al-Sor town. [DawaAlhaq]
Daesh says it shot down a “American” recon drone in Anad village south of Shaddadi. [A3maq]
Raqqa
Local activists say Coalition planes targeted Daesh positions near Ain Eissa, killing several terrorists, wounding others, and destroying a vehicle loaded with ammunition. Daesh targeted SDF positions in Ain Eissa with mortars and locally made rockets. [ARA]
A medical source says a YPG fighter was killed and three others wounded when a land mine exploded on their vehicle near Suluk. [ARA]
Northwest (Aleppo, Idlib)
Aleppo city
Thirty-one civilians, including nine children, were killed in airstrikes on different areas in Aleppo. Opposition groups shelled residential areas under the Syrian Army control in Aleppo, killing six civilians including 2 children. [Hawar]
Turkey backed opposition groups shelled and rocketed Sheikh Maqsoud, without causing human casualties. [Hawar]
Jarabulus
A Jaish Al-Thuwar commander says after repelling Daesh attacks, SDF factions captured Hasiya, Hasajek, and Mazare’ Al-Ghandour villages. He says capturing these villages is a start and the SDF will move ahead to Al-Bab and Raqqa. He threatened it to fight Turkey backed opposition groups if they tried to stand in the way of the SDF. [ARA] [Qasioun]
Al-Bab
However, a Turkey backed opposition commander says opposition groups are determined to enter Al-Bab city and to kick the SDF out of Manbij, Tal Rifaat, and Ming. [Qasioun]
Azaz
Opposition groups captured 7 villages southeast of Azaz on Monday. By capturing the villages, the opposition groups are only 3 villages away from areas under control of the Syrian Government. [Hawar] [Dorar]
Jaish Al-Thuwar, a Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) faction, says Daesh continued its attacks on Um Al-Qura and Um Hawsh villages. It says hundreds of Daesh terrorists withdrew from several areas north of Aleppo and started to attack the two villages. It also says Turkey backed opposition groups attacked SDF positions near Harbal and Sheikh Eissa. It says Nusra Front and other opposition groups rocketed Maraanaz and another village in Azaz. [Hawar]
Daesh publishes photos of targeting opposition groups and the Turkish army with mortars and locally made rockets east of Al-Ra’i and south of Akhtarin. [DawaAlhaq]
Afrin
People demonstrated in Sorka village in Afrin, forcing the Turkish troop to stop building the concrete wall in the area. According to local residents, the wall in passing through their lines. [Hawar]
Manbij
Daesh publishes photos of targeting Um Tamakh village south of Manbij with heavy machine guns. [DawaAlhaq]
Other Northwest Syria
Daesh publishes photos of targeting a Syrian Army position near the Kowaires Airbase with an SPG 9 rocket. [DawaAlhaq]
A supposed US drone killed a Nusra Turkish commander in Idlib on Monday. [EnabBaladi]
Daesh publishes 2 photos of a religious school in Maslama city. [DawaAlhaq]
Central and West (Homs, Hama, etc.)
Heavy battles continued between Daesh and Syrian troops in the silos area east of Homs. The Syrian Army targeted Daesh positions near Jazl and Sha’er oilfields east of Homs. [Qasioun]
Daesh publishes photos of its terrorists on the road between Ithariya and Sheikh Hilal village. [DawaAlhaq]
East (Deir Ez-Zor)
A local activist says Daesh launched a counter attack on Syrian troops in Hay Al-Haweiqa in Deir Ez-Zor, but they were forced to retreat because of the heavy shelling and bombing. He says more than 15 Daesh terrorists were killed or wounded in the failed attack. He also says Daesh launched a major attack near Jufra village, but they were forced to retreat there also because of the heavy airstrikes. [ARA]
Syrian planes destroyed a Daesh bulldozer and 4 vehicles, killing or wounding several terrorists in Haweiqa. [SyriaNow]
A local activist says Daesh started confiscating the empty houses, or the houses that belong to “wanted” people, in Deir Ez-Zor, hours after the Iraqi Government announced the attack on Mosul, in order to provide houses to hundreds of its terrorists who fled from Mosul. [ARA]
An opposition commander says Daesh terrorists will move from Iraq to Syria and mostly to Deir Ez-Zor. He says the opposition groups’ role will be to prevent Daesh’s passage, but they cannot attack Deir Ez-Zor on their own. He also says the Coalition has no intention of attacking Deir Ez-Zor. [Qasioun]
The SOHR says two people were killed and twenty wounded in airstrikes on Sabha village near Deir Ez-Zor. [SyriaHR]
Daesh publishes photos of the results of a Russian airstrike on Basira Bridge and Sabha village in Deir Ez-Zor countryside. [DawaAlhaq]
Daesh says “American” planes bombed the bridge between Basira town and Mayadin city, putting it out of service. [A3maq]
South (Rif Damashq, Suwayda, Daraa, etc.)
A local activist says 70,000 refugees are trapped in the Rukban Camp near the Jordan border, and warns that children are dying because of the lack of medical assistance. Jordan had closed the border after Daesh attacked border guards with a vehicle bomb. [ZamanAlWasl]
The Syrian Army killed several Daesh terrorists and destroyed a fuel tanker truck east of Suwayda. [SyriaNow]
A local activist says Nusra targeted a Daesh leader in Daraa with an IED on his vehicle, wounding him severely. [ARA]
OTHER MIDDLE EAST/NORTH AFRICA REPORTS
North Africa
Egypt
The Egyptian Army says Egyptian planes destroyed 31 takfiri hideouts in North Sinai. It also says ground troops targeted the terrorists in North Sinai, killing 19 of them. An Egyptian soldier was killed. [AfriGate]
Security forces stopped an attack on a security barrier in the Bir Lahfan area, killing 7 terrorists. [VetoGate]
Security sources say an officer and a policeman were killed and four policemen wounded when an IED exploded on their armored vehicle in Hay Al-Tarabin, in Sheikh Zuweid. [ElWatan]
Security forces destroyed 5 IEDs in the Sheikh Zuweid area. [ElWatan]
The police defused an IED in Hay Al-Masaeed, in west Arish. [ElWatan]
Libya
Central coast
A GNA Military source says GNA troops freed 4 young men who were imprisoned by Daesh in Sirte. He says there are still 50 people missing. [Libya24]
GNA troops killed 2 Daesh Libyan leaders, including the Daesh wali of Derna, in Sirte. [Libya24]
A military source says Daesh captured a GNA soldier in Sirte. [Wasat]
SOCIAL MEDIA
Iraq
Photos of children going back to school in Ramadi [Twitter]
In response to the anti-Iraq “Mosul is being annihilated” hashtag, Iraqis started a “Mosul is returning” hashtag. [Twitter]
Photos of 2 Daesh members captured by Iraqi forces south of Mosul [Twitter]
A video of Iraqi forces targeting a Daesh position with a thermal rocket in Hamdaniya [Twitter]
A video of a Daesh tunnel found by the Peshmerga east of Mosul [RT]
A video from inside Qaraqosh [YouTube]
A video of a Christian family celebrating the liberation of Qaraqosh [YouTube]
A video of a Coalition airstrike on Daesh [YouTube]
Syria
A video of opposition groups in Al-Ghawz village [YouTube]
DAESH MEDIA
Daesh audio newsletter for today [Bayan]
Daesh publishes photos of its agricultural activities in Al-Bab and Mayadin. [DawaAlhaq]
Daesh publishes infographics about the results of the first day of fighting in Ninewa. [GooglePlus]
