October 19, 2016
IFP Fighter (AFP)
Today’s Major Developments
Putin reportedly supports Iraq in dispute over Turkish troops. [..]
Al-Abadi blasts Saudi interference; Turkey leaders continue their interference. [..]
General Volesky says Daesh leaders have left Mosul. [..]
Al-Abadi visits the troops in Ninewa. [..]
Daesh is blowing up government buildings, staying out of sight. [..]
IFP, supporting units, capture 18 more villages south of Mosul. [..]
Daesh has executed 10,000 civilians since mid-2014. [..]
Daesh executes groups of villagers in two Qayara villages before leaving them; some villagers turn on them. [..]
Daesh still battling in Hamdaniya, as Iraqi forces surround district capital. [..]
Peshmerga fight off Daesh attack in Sinjar. [..]
Syrian Network for Human Rights says Coalition planes have killed 649 civilians. [..]
Turks still targeting Syrian Democratic Forces, Kurdish civilians. [..]
REPORTS FROM IRAQ
NATIONAL NEWS
Prime Minister Abadi condemns the statement of the Saudi Minister of Foreign Affairs (reported here on October 14). Abadi says the Minister doesn’t talk about 5,000 Saudi suicide terrorists who blew themselves up in Iraq, and that was only until 2007. He says the Saudis are talking about supporting Sunni people, so why would they not even invest in the liberated Falluja and Ramadi? He says the Saudi claim of saving Sunnis from atrocities is the same slogan that Daesh used to kill Sunni people in Iraq.
He cites the sectarian movement in Iraq, and asks why the Saudis are living in the past? Sunnis and Kurds are fighting together now, so why throw fuel on the fire? He says the Saudis didn’t send a single bullet to support Iraqi forces in the war against Daesh, so why would they interfere now?
He says Iraq wants good relationships with everyone including Saudi Arabia. He says the terrorist line of thinking is threatening the Gulf countries also. He says Daesh will find another place after leaving Iraq and Syria, and it will go to the Gulf. He says Iraq is willing to help to stop that danger. [Iraqia] [Azamil]
The Saudi minister had said that the participation of the PMFs in the Mosul liberation will lead to a catastrophe.
Russian President Vladimir Putin told Iraqi PM Abadi in a phone call that Russia rejects the involvement of Turkish troops in the Mosul operations without Baghdad’s agreement. [ARA]
US Army Maj. Gen. Gary J. Volesky, the commander of Combined Joint Forces Land Component Command-Operation Inherent Resolve, says Daesh leaders have left Mosul. [BasNews]
The Turkey President Erdogan says Turkey wants to be in the place where it could fight for its independence and future, and this place is now Mosul, and Turkey will go there. He also says Turkey has 350 km of border with Iraq, while other people, who don’t have borders with Iraq, are doing what they want there. [Anadolu]
The Turkey Deputy Prime Minister warns of giving Mosul city to the PMFs after its liberation. He also says Mosul is not for the Americans, Iranians, or Russians, but for the people of Mosul and the Iraqi people. [Anadolu]
DaeshDaily comment. It is also not for the Turks.
In an obvious misquote by Anadolu, its says “Votel (the US CENTCOM Commander) says the participation of Turkey in the campaign against Daesh in Syria and Iraq” is very important. However, in the report, Votel said the Coalition wouldn’t have achieved what it achieved IN SYRIA without Turkey’s help. [Anadolu]
The leader of the Turkish (opposition) National Party says Kirkuk is a Turkish city. He also says Mosul is a “Turkish house”, and Turkey has the right to have a military presence in its “house”. [SotKurdistan]
The French Prime Minister, Manuel Valls, says French planes targeted Daesh in Mosul with 900 rockets so far. He also says there are 150 French soldiers with artillery units deployed south of Mosul. [BasNews]
The Russian military’s chief of staff says Russia has been monitoring the military operations in Mosul. He also says Russia is concerned that militants might escape to Syria. Gen. Valery Gerasimov said Wednesday that “despite all the uproar on Western TV channels, the operation hasn’t started in earnest yet.”
He said the Russian military was using aerial assets to monitor for “possible attempts by the militants to break out of Mosul or leave the city for Syria unimpeded.” He said: “we hope that our partners from the international coalition realize what could be the consequences of large groups of (Daesh) fighters roaming the Mideast region. They must be destroyed on the spot, not driven from one country to another.” [KPTV]
A Russian military source says Russia finished delivering the M28NE helicopters to Iraq. Iraq received the first group in June. [BasNews]
The Coalition says it conducted 6 airstrikes on Daesh targets in Iraq, around Mosul (2), Qayara (1), Sultan Abdullah (1), and Tal Afar (1); and Haditha (1). [InherentResolve]
BAGHDAD
Security-related incidents reported
North (Tarmiya, Taji, etc.)
Iraqi Army 22nd brigade destroyed an IED in the Abu Sraiwil area. [BOC Facebook Page]
Northeast (Adhamiya, etc.)
Daesh says it killed or wounded thirty people by detonating 4 IEDs on 2 Shia religious gatherings in the Al-Qahera and Qraia’at areas. [A3maq]
A security source says several people were killed or wounded by 2 IEDs planted near a market in Hay Al-Qahera. [Maalomah] An MoI source says two people were killed and ten wounded when an IED exploded near a Shia villagers gathering in the Qraia’at area. [Mada]
An MoI source says the bodies of two unknown men were found shot in Shaab. [Mada]
East (Sadr City, New Baghdad, etc.)
Daesh says it killed or wounded several people by detonating an IED on a Shia religious gathering in Baghdad Al-Jadida. [A3maq]
An MoI source says two people were killed and four wounded when an IED exploded near a mosque in Ameen. [Mada] This may be about the same incident reported just above.
An MoI source says the bodies of two unknown women were found stabbed in Ameen. [Mada]
A security source says unknown armed men shot and killed a man in his civilian vehicle in Talbiya. [Ghad]
South (Dora, Yusufiyah, Mahmudiya, etc.)
Iraqi Army 59th found a C4 barrel in the Albu Ubaid area. [BOC Facebook Page]
Iraqi Army 22nd brigade defused an IED and found other explosives in the Albu Awsaj area. [BOC Facebook Page]
Iraqi Army 55th brigade found 2 IEDs and other explosives in the Quwam area. [BOC Facebook Page]
Iraqi Army 25th brigade captured a man wanted on terrorism charges in Latifiya. [MoD Website]
Southwest (Rasheed, etc.)
An MoI source says the body of unknown man was found shot in Hay Al-Amel. [Mada]
West (Ghazaliya, Abu Ghraib, etc.)
An MoI source says two PMF fighters were killed and five wounded when an IED exploded on their vehicle in Radwaniya. [Mada]
Total Baghdad incidents reported: 14 (Includes only incidents reported)
ANBAR
Falluja
A member of the Ameriyat Al-Falluja subdistrict council says displaced families are not returning to the Jaffa and Ahwar areas because of the large quantities of Daesh IEDs and booby-trapped houses. [Mada]
Hit/Haditha
A Tribal PMF commander says Iraqi forces stopped a Daesh attack in the Khasfa area, west of Haditha, killing 4 terrorists and destroying 2 vehicle bombs. [Mada]
A Tribal PMF commander says Iraqi forces stopped a Daesh boat attack near the Haditha Lake, killing 12 terrorists. [Maalomah]
Daesh publishes photos of targeting an Iraqi Army convoy with mortars on the road between Haditha and Baiji. [JustPaste]
Rutba/Western Anbar
A Tribal PMF commander says Iraqi forces, the IAA, the IAF, and Coalition planes started the preparatory shelling and bombing on Daesh positions in Al-Qa’im, Rawa, and Anah. He says Iraqi forces are planning a swift ground attack on the 3 areas in the coming days. [Mada]
An Iraqi Army 7th division source says Coalition planes destroyed 2 Daesh vehicles in Anah city, killing 5 terrorists. [Sumaria]
Daesh says it killed twenty-two Iraqi forces members and destroyed a Humvee and 2 cars with IEDs in Al-Aber village, west of Rutba. [A3maq]
SALAHUDDIN
Shirqat
The IAA killed 25 terrorists and destroyed several vehicles in the Khanuqa area. [MoD Website]
Daesh says it destroyed an Iraqi Army vehicles and 2 military positions in an attack near Khanuqa village. [A3maq]
The IAA destroyed a Daesh vehicle and 2 mortar units, killing 5 terrorists in the Makhoul area. [MoD Website]
Iraqi Army 66th brigade destroyed 7 IEDs in the Shirqat area. [MoD Website]
Daesh says it destroyed a PMF bulldozer and a truck near the Tilul Al-Baj area on Tuesday. [A3maq]
Baiji
The IAA killed 5 Daesh terrorists in the Thermal Station area. PMF units destroyed a Daesh vehicle and an ammunition cache in the same area. [MoD Website]
Daesh says its men killed two PMF fighters near Makhoul Mountain, north of Baiji. [A3maq]
Tikrit
Salahuddin Police captured 7 men wanted on terrorism charges in Tikrit. [MoD Website]
Southern Salahuddin
Iraqi Army 74th brigade found an explosives cache in Yathrib subdistrict. [MoD Website]
DIYALA
Baquba/southeast Diyala
The MoI says the Intelligence Service found large quantities of C4 explosives and IEDs in Al-Salam subdistrict in Al-Khalis. It says Daesh was intending to use the explosives to create sectarian strife. [Maalomah]
Northern Diyala (Kifri, Khanaqin, etc.)
A PMF commander says his troops captured a Daesh vehicle and communications equipment near Naft Khana. [Harbi]
KIRKUK
Kirkuk
A Kirkuk Police commander says his troops captured 15 wanted men, mostly wanted on terrorism charges, in the Bajwan area in Dibis subdistrict, 25 km (15.5 miles) northwest of Kirkuk. [Sumaria]
NINEWA
Prime Minister Abadi visited Iraqi forces in Ninewa and promised to raise the Iraqi flag in Mosul soon. [Sumaria]
“Large numbers” of military and PMF reinforcements are massing south of Mosul in preparation to advance westward to cut off Daesh’s lines and seize territory as they advance, according to information by the IWMC. The most significant development of the day, according to the IWMC’s report obtained by DaeshDaily, was the convergence of Iraqi Federal Police, PMFs, and Rapid Response units south of Mosul, isolating the Shura subdistrict from Hammam Al-Alil on the southern front and further extending Iraqi control of the Baghdad–Mosul road, as well as capturing the villages of Al-Shami, Kharba Hadid, and Bayda and Zawiya to the south of the city.
The IWMC also reported to DaeshDaily that Daesh had exploded the old Ninewa Governorate building and the Directorate of Nationalities and Passports building in central Mosul, and that Daesh was using the Mosul mayoralty building, the new Ninewa Governorate building, and the Investigation Court building as prisons for those who had refused to swear allegiance to Daesh.
Daesh is still present in Mosul, the IWMC said, citing its sources inside the city, but its personnel appear less often and have disappeared completely from some areas, especially the Al-Muthanna, Al-Sukr, and Al-Wahda neighborhoods. However Daesh deployments increased in the Kokajli and Al-Karama areas, and were visible though in fewer numbers in Al-Rashidiya and areas north of the city.
The IWMC estimated Daesh to be holding 2000 to 2500 prisoners, all young men between 18 and 25 years of age as well as its Yazidi female prisoners, in the Al-Baath and Al-Zirai areas, and in the Al-Saqr and Al-Jumhuriya Hospitals.
A Peshmerga Ministry official announced a new agreement between Erbil and Baghdad with respect to the Mosul operations, saying that the Peshmerga had agreed not to enter Mosul. [Waradana]
The JOC spokesman says the JOC established a mobile headquarters in Makhmur. He also says Iraqi forces are not in a hurry to finish the Ninewa battle because they want to save the lives of civilians. [Sumaria]
Daesh has been ordering villagers to flee into the city itself, where food and supplies are already scarce, a Ninewa Provincial Council member said. [Ghad]
Mosul
Military developments within Mosul
Lt. Gen. Talib Al-Shaghati, the Iraqi Special Forces commander, estimated Daesh fighters in Mosul to number between 5,000 and 6,000, citing intelligence information, in a press conference today. [PUKMedia]
The PMF press says Daesh established checkpoints south of Mosul city to capture the terrorists who are fleeing the battles. [Buratha]
Daesh has moved its battle command center to the western half of the city, local sources say. [Mawsleya]
An infograph: Daesh executed over 10,000 civilians in the last 28 months. [Sumaria]
Local sources say Daesh terrorists don’t appear often in Mosul city. They also say that there are 2,000-2,500 young men in Daesh prisons in Mosul. The source also confirmed the presence of female Yazidi prisoners in different areas on Mosul city. [Harbi]
A “Mosul Sniper” has announced his presence in four areas of the city, by targeting Daesh foot patrols. This activity is occurring in a climate in which the spirit of rebellion is increasing among Mosul residents, a source in Ninewa governorate said. He called for better coordination among these parties to increase the effectiveness of the resistance within Mosul and to minimize unnecessary casualties in Iraqi and Coalition attacks on the city. [Sumaria]
The meem resistance groups are conducting assassination attacks against Daesh leaders in Mosul, a Ninewa Provincial Council member said. The councilman also said that the anti-Daesh resistance groups are not receiving the required level of support from the Iraqi government and the Coalition.
Daesh has begun detonating buildings inside Mosul including the Ninewa Governorate buildings, the Nationality and Passport Directorate, and ten of its own hisbah offices, according to a Ninewa Police officer. Daesh used TNT to completely destroy the former Ninewa Governorate headquarters on Wednesday, the officer said. The blast that destroyed the Nationality Directorate also caused damage to nearby structures, he said. [BasNews]
The Ibn Sina and Jumhuriya Hospitals in central Mosul are “packed” with injured Daesh fighters, after “tens” of them arrived at hospitals since the launch of the Mosul operation, according to a medical source in the city. [Sumaria]
Daesh says a child was killed and four other children and a woman wounded in a Peshmerga shelling on Mosul city. [A3maq]
Mosul campaign
The MoD says Iraqi F-16s targeted Daesh gatherings, headquarters, and communications centers in Mosul, killing tens of terrorists. It also says the F-16s are targeting Daesh terrorists who are fleeing to the desert. [Maalomah] [Waradana]
Col. Yahya Rasool, the Joint Forces spokesman, said 20 Daesh fighters had been killed on the third day of the Mosul operation. [ARA]
Ninewa Operations Command said it has a plan in place should Daesh use chemical weapons. [Sumaria]
Conditions in Mosul
Daesh “caliph” Awwad Baghdadi remains inside Mosul, according to former Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari, citing the difficulty that Baghdadi would have in vacating the city. [ARA]
Daesh has removed its “Women of the Caliphate,” a local source said. These women of foreign or other Arab nationality who migrated to Iraq and Syria to join Daesh have been moved to Daesh-held areas in Syria, the source added. According to the source, the move was made to prevent the women from being taken captive if Daesh should lose control of Mosul. [Sumaria]
A DaeshDaily source in the Iraqi press who is currently at the battlefront told us today that Daesh had reportedly moved its important papers and computers into Mosul’s mosques and churches without removing the items inside these religious structures, a movement that had been observed in just the preceding few hours.
UNHCR says 900 civilians have fled Mosul city and crossed the Syrian border. This is the first large-scale movement of civilians out of Mosul since the start of the fighting. The 900 are now in the Al-Hawl refugee camp in Syria, the UNHCR spokeswoman said. [IPA] [ARA]
Daesh issued an order to the people of Mosul to hand over all their SIM cards and to remove all antennas from their houses, and threatened to arrest anyone who violates the order. [ARA]
Daesh has reportedly created an alternative communication network within the city after the wireless networks were taken back out of service. Daesh has placed its own communications towers atop buildings in the city and Daesh members have been spotted carrying what appears to be communications equipment around the city. [Mawsleya]
Daesh publishes photos of a dental center in Mosul. [JustPaste]
DaeshDaily comment. Daesh doesn’t mention that such centers were established either by the Iraqi government or by private businesses.
Shura/Hammam Alil
IAA copters destroyed a Daesh column comprised of 11 vehicles as it attempted to flee from Hammam Al-Alil to Mosul city, a Ninewa Operations Command source said. [Maalomah]
Daesh issues a video of “normal life” in Shura and Hammam Al-Alil. [A3maq]
DaeshDaily comment. With typical Daesh timing, it is issued as government troops are driving Daesh out of the area.
Qayara
Iraqi Federal Police (IFP) Commander Ra’ed Shakir Jawdat said his troops have captured 18 villages south of Mosul, calculated to be 352 sq. km (195 sq. miles). His troops also reportedly destroyed 10 Daesh vehicle bombs, and seized two vehicles, large quantities of explosives, 50 Kornet missiles, and 120 mortar rounds. 96 Daesh fighters have been killed since the beginning of the Mosul operation. 27 vehicle bombs have been destroyed, and 48 villages have been captured from Daesh, he said. [BasNews] [Ghad] [PUKMedia] [Baghdadia] [Mada]
The IWMC says Iraqi forces captured 7 villages in the Qayara area. [Sumaria]
Iraqi troops captured the villages of Al-Zawiya and Umm Al-Manasis in Qayara and Arfaylah across the Hamdaniya border on Tuesday, a Ninewa Police source said. In Shura subdistrict, IFP units seized the nearby village of Al-Bakr, a Ninewa security source said. The IFP commander said the villages of Muhandis and Al-Saawiya had also been seized, with the help of village residents. [BasNews] [Ghad]
Residents of Lazaga village killed 8 Daesh members after Iraqi troops entered the village, the IFP commander also said. [BasNews]
Daesh says it destroyed 3 Iraqi forces’ vehicles, including an armored personnel carrier, in a suicide attack near Arfaylah village. [A3maq] Daesh says it also destroyed an Iraqi Army Humvee with a mortar shell near the same village. [A3maq]
Daesh militants detained and later executed 16 young men in the village of Al-Adhba 20 km (12.5 miles) south of Mosul, a Ninewa Police officer said on Wednesday. Daesh executed the men with gunfire and buried the corpses in a mass grave in the village. [BasNews]
A member of the Tribal Mobilization group “Martyrs of Qayara” said Daesh executed 14 civilians before it withdrew from villages south of Mosul on Wednesday. Eight bodies were recovered in Al-Hawd and another six on the Qayara–Hammam Al-Alil road, he said. The victims included former Army officers, he said. [BasNews] [ARA]
Daesh has been using a “new tactic” of attacking the Joint Forces at night with its locally made missiles while its members hide out during the day. [Mada]
An interview with General Ali Al-Lami, the commander of the IFP 5th division in Qayara (with subtitles) [DaeshDaily]
An interview with Captain Munaf Fahad, the media officer of the IFP Commandos (with subtitles) [DaeshDaily]
An interview with Lt. Colonel Mohammed Ahmed, IFP Commandos, in Najma village (with subtitles) [DaeshDaily]
A video of Iraqi forces in the Qayara area [DaeshDaily]
Photos of Iraqi forces in Al-Hawd village [Sumaria]
Daesh says it destroyed 4 Iraqi armored amphibious vehicles and a Humvee with guided missiles north of Qayara city. [A3maq]
Nineveh Plain
Joint Forces are now 10 km (6 miles) from Mosul city, a Ninewa Council member said. [Sumaria]
Hamdaniya
Daesh is holding over 160 families from Al-Salamiya and Tilul Al-Nasr village in Daesh buildings as human shields against Coalition airstrikes, a Ninewa Police source said. A Ninewa Council member gave a similar account. [BasNews] [Mawazin]
Hamdaniya city is surrounded by Iraqi troops and Peshmerga fighters are prepared to support them if asked, a Peshmerga official said Tuesday. The Peshmerga have no information on the location of civilians within the city, the official added. PMF militias were due to join in the assault on the city Wednesday. Daesh reportedly exploded two suicide vehicle bombs in Hamdaniya Wednesday morning. No further information was available. [Karemlash] [ARA] [Mada]
An IWMC source told DaeshDaily that the city is surrounded but not yet liberated.
Peshmerga fighters killed “Omar Huwaidi,” dubbed the “butcher of Mosul,” in an ambush in Salahiya village, according to a PUK media official. [PUKMedia]
Despite reports to the contrary yesterday, the village of Abbasiya is still in Daesh hands after hours of fighting between Daesh and the Joint Forces, according Rudaw’s correspondent in the area. The attacking units have surrounded the village but are facing fierce resistance from Daesh within. Heavy Iraqi shelling of the village has resulted in the detonation of a number of houses that Daesh had rigged with explosives. Coalition planes and IAF airships are also participating but the PMFs are not involved, according to Rudaw’s correspondent. [Rudaw]
A security source says Daesh counter-attacked Hamidiya village in Nimrud subdistrict, kidnapped men from the village, and took them to Mosul. [Sumaria]
DaeshDaily comment. Yesterday it was claimed that all villages in Hamdaniya were under government and Peshmerga control. Today’s news seems to somewhat contradict yesterday’s optimism.
Iraqi Joint Forces announced the capture of the village of Kani Harami in southwest Hamdaniya on Wednesday. [Mada]
Al-Sumaria TV enters the liberated Sheikh Amir area in Hamdaniya. It says Daesh booby-trapped schools in the area. [Sumaria]
Daesh says it destroyed a PMF Abrams tank near Al-Abbas village. [A3maq]
Daesh says it destroyed a PMF personnel carrier, a Humvee, and a vehicle, with IEDs near Kani Harami and Al-Abbas villages. [A3maq]
Daesh says it destroyed a PMF bulldozer near Balawat village, southeast of Qaraqosh. [A3maq]
Daesh says it conducted a suicide attack with a vehicle bomb near the same village. [A3maq]
Daesh publishes photos of battles in the Nineveh Plain area. [DawaAlhaq]
Tel Keif
Peshmerga forces entered the village of Nawaran. [Rudaw]
Peshmerga artillery, supported by American, French and Canadian warplanes, started to target Daesh positions in the Tesgofa area. [Rudaw]
Daesh says it shelled Peshmerga military positions near Kanye Shirin with 5 mortars after 2 Apaches landed in the area. [GooglePlus]
Northwest (Tal Afar, Sinjar)
Tal Afar
Daesh issues a video of a group of its foreign terrorists pledging to fight to the death in Tal Afar. [A3maq]
DaeshDaily comment. Please don’t change your minds later. Dealing with Daesh prisoners is a hassle. We don’t have a Guantanamo in Iraq.
Daesh issues a video of the result of a Coalition airstrike on a kindergarten in Tal Afar city on Tuesday. [A3maq]
Sinjar
Peshmerga fighters with Coalition air support reportedly repelled a Daesh attack in Sinjar on Wednesday. An unspecified number of Daesh fighters were reportedly killed and injured along with two Peshmerga fighters reported injured. [ARA] [Mada]
A Peshmerga commander says Daesh used 250 terrorists and several vehicle bombs in the attack near Sinjar. [Sumaria]
Daesh says it killed five Peshmerga fighters and wounded seven in an attack on the outskirts of Sinjar city. [A3maq]
Daesh issues a video of the attack. [A3maq]
Daesh says it attacked Peshmerga positions on the outskirts of Sinjar city and burned down 2 barracks, then it shelled the area with mortars and locally made rockets. Daesh publishes photos of the shelling. [DawaAlhaq]
Daesh says it targeted Peshmerga positions in the Sinjar area with 45 mortar shells. [GooglePlus]
KURDISTAN
An informed source says the KRG kicked out of Kurdistan the head of Al-Jazeera’s Iraq office, Hamid Hadid, because of his statements against Iraqi forces. Hadid published photos of himself in Erbil on social media. [BasNews]
DaeshDaily comment. While Al-Jazeera is trying to show a “balanced” façade, Hadid has never been shy about his support for Daesh. He is the uncle of Omar Hadid, the former AQI commander of Falluja, and he always praises Daesh terrorists and their attacks in Iraq. He praised the Daesh attack on a soccer field in Haswa that killed dozens of kids and called them, as Daesh did, “PMF members.” We have no idea how he was allowed to enter Erbil. Al-Jazeera has never a friend of Iraq’s.
REPORTS FROM TURKEY
President Erdogan says “Mosul” (i.e. Ninewa) is historically part of Turkey, and was taken away from it after World War I. [GhadTV]
A pro-Erdogan newspaper publishes a map of Turkey that includes Aleppo, Idlib, Hasaka, northern Iraq (including Ninewa as well as Erbil, Dahuk, Suleimaniya and Kirkuk), in addition to parts of Bulgaria and Romania. [SotIraq]
The Turkish Deputy Prime Minister says there are efforts to divide the region, exactly like what happened during Sykes-Picot negotiations that established the current boundaries, and Turkey is trying to prevent that. [Dorar]
DaeshDaily comment. It seems to us that the people currently doing the most to divide the region are the Turks.
Pro-Erdogan Turkey Map
REPORTS FROM SYRIA
The Syrian Network for Human Rights says Coalition planes have killed 649 civilians, including 244 children and 132 women, in its bombing on Syrian cities and villages so far. [Dorar]
DaeshDaily comment. That’s a high number and must be taken seriously. The report needs to be studied and its numbers verified, which should perhaps lead to some changes in the procedures for airstrikes.
19 trucks carrying UN humanitarian aid entered Syria through Turkey, heading toward Idlib. The trucks have been trapped since the 19th of September, when the Syrian Government announced the end of the truce. [Dorar]
The Coalition says it conducted 8 airstrikes on Daesh targets in Syria, on or near Mare (1), Washiyah (3), Shaddadi (2), Deir Ez-Zor (1), and Albu Kamal (1). [InherentResolve]
Northeast (Hasaka, Raqqa)
Hasaka
Local activists say Daesh foreign terrorists are fleeing Markada, Daesh’s last stronghold south of Hasaka, to Turkey. They say at least 25 terrorists have fled during October. They also say Daesh has started a search and raid operation looking for the defectors. [ARA]
Raqqa
Daesh says it killed or wounded ten “PKK” fighters by detonating 4 IEDs in the Suluk subdistrict on Tuesday. [A3maq]
SOHR says Daesh executed a young man publicly in Raqqa city after accusing him of “disobedience to parents”. [SyriaHR]
DaeshDaily comment. This is the first time we have heard about such a punishment in the entire history of Islam.
Northwest (Aleppo, Idlib)
Al-Bab
A Turkey backed opposition group commander says the opposition is 10 km (6 miles) away from Al-Bab. He says after capturing Al-Bab the opposition will go to Manbij (video). [Qasioun]
Another commander says the opposition is 15 km (9 miles) away from Al-Bab. He also says the opposition will respond in-kind to the SDF shelling on the opposition on Tuesday. [Qasioun]
Turkish artillery targeted SDF positions in Hasiya, Um Hawsh, and Um Al-Qura with tens of shells of heavy artillery. [Qasioun] [Hawar]
The SOHR says Turkish planes targeted Hasiya and Um Hawsh with more than 20 airstrikes. [SyriaHR]
SDF tanks then targeted opposition groups near Harbal and Um Hawsh, killing three fighters. [Qasioun]
An SDF commander says the SDF doesn’t want to have a war with opposition groups. He says Turkish troops shelled and rocketed SDF positions in the area. He says the SDF has not responded yet and they don’t want to fight a war against Syrians. [Qasioun]
Jaish Al-Thuwar issued a statement saying its main goal is to fight Daesh, but it will defend itself against any attack. [Hawar]
Azaz
The SDF captured 5 more villages in north Aleppo after heavy battles with Daesh, killing 8 terrorists (video). [Hawar] [Qasioun]
An opposition groups commander says the opposition recaptured Tal Malid and Sayyed Ali villages, southeast of Mare’ after heavy battles with Daesh. He says Daesh had recaptured the two villages after a heavy attack early Wednesday. [ARA]
Afrin
1,900 displaced people arrived in Afrin from Aleppo and other Syrian cities. [Hawar]
The Turkish Army is targeting several villages in Afrin with heavy artillery. [Hawar]
A local source says the shelling is random and many people have started to leave their houses. There have been no reports about casualties. [ARA]
Other Northwest Syria
Local sources say the Turkish Army advanced toward Aqrabat town in Idlib after Turkish people claimed that they own these lands. The sources say that the Syrian villagers demonstrated and prevented the Turkish Army from entering their lands with its bulldozers. However, local media sources say the Turkish advances are the start of a military operation on Afrin. A local source says the Turkish Army cut down all the trees in the area, and are preventing people from going to their farms. [Dorar] [EnabBaladi] [ZamanAlWasl]
A Syrian Euphrates Shield Operation commander says the Turkey backed operation will fight the Syrian Army in order to break the siege on Aleppo city. [Qasioun]
Central and West (Homs, Hama, etc.)
The SOHR says battles continued between Syrian troops and Daesh in the Jab Al-Haraha and Maksar Al-Hisan areas, east of Homs. [SyriaHR]
Daesh publishes photos of distributing propaganda materials in Hama. [DawaAlhaq]
Daesh says it captured a Syrian Army barrier east of Salmiya city, in Hama. [A3maq]
East (Deir Ez-Zor)
The SOHR says the number of victims of an airstrike on Sabha village in Deir Ez-Zor increased to nine, including a woman. It had said yesterday that two people were killed in the airstrike. [SyriaHR]
The SOHR says battles continued between Syrian troops and Daesh in the Sinaa and Jufra areas in Deir Ez-Zor. [SyriaHR]
Daesh publishes photos of harvesting palm dates in Albu Kamal. [JustPaste]
South (Rif Damashq, Suwayda, Daraa, etc.)
Jihadi sources say Abu Hashim Al-Idlibi, a senior leader of the Daesh affiliate in the Yarmouk Basin, Khaled Army, was killed by an IED explosion. The report has not yet been confirmed. [EnabBaladi]
Daesh publishes photos of distributing food to its fighters in the Yarmouk Basin area. [JustPaste]
OTHER MIDDLE EAST/NORTH AFRICA REPORTS
North Africa
Egypt
Egyptian Apaches and F-16s targeted takfiri gatherings in Mahdiya village, south of Rafah, killing 20 terrorists and destroying a large weapons and explosives storehouse. [VetoGate]
Security units stopped an attack on a security barrier in Kharouba, south of Sheikh Zuweid, killing 2 terrorists. [VetoGate]
Eyewitnesses say security forces shot at a car and a motorcycle that were trying to attack the Sheikh Zuweid police station and forced them to flee. [ElWatan]
Libya
Northeast
Daesh publishes 2 photos of targeting LNA soldiers in the Chinese Building area west of Benghazi with T55 tank shells. [JustPaste]
Central coast
A GNA Military source says a GNA field commander was killed in the battles in Sirte. The source also says the Daesh zakat official was killed in the Manara area. [Wasat]
A GNA Military source say GNA troops freed two men who were imprisoned by Daesh in the Manara area, in Sirte. [AfriGate]
Tunisia
Security units captured a terrorist who was planning to blow up a bus near Monastir airport. [Tunisien]
The police captured a cell of 6 terrorists who were recruiting young men in Bir Bourguiba. [Tunisien]
Other countries
Nigeria
Local sources say Boko Haram terrorists attacked a village in Borno and looted the houses, the shops, and the farms before burning the village down. The villagers had fled the city when Boko Haram shelled it with heavy weapons. [AfriGate]
SOCIAL MEDIA
A fabricated video allegedly records the voice of the “Iraqi Air Force Commander” ordering a pilot to bomb “Sunnis” in Mosul, especially children. [YouTube]
DaeshDaily comment. While it is obvious for anyone with an elementary school education to see that the video is fabricated, many “unsophisticated” people distributed it on Twitter as a “proof” of the Iraqi government’s bad intentions towards Sunnis.
Daesh has a Telegram account called @Bankalansar to provide Twitter accounts for its followers.
A video of dead Daesh terrorists who dressed as IFP troops in the Ninewa area [Twitter]
A video of a Daesh vehicle being hit by an Iraqi airstrike [Twitter]
A video of Iraqi pilots attacking Daesh in Mosul [Twitter]
DAESH MEDIA
Daesh audio newsletter for today [Bayan]
Daesh issues a propaganda video about its suicide terrorists. The video shows an “educational session” for children about suicide bombers. [DawaAlhaq]
