October 25, 2016
Iraqi Soldier in the Shura Area (DaeshDaily)
Today’s Major Developments
Turks claim to be giving artillery support to Peshmerga, flying with Coalition. [..]
Daesh beheads a Shia cleric in Baghdad. [..]
Rutba back in government control; Daesh loses 40-60 men. [..]
Arab PC members in Kirkuk want investigation of displacements, home destruction in Dibis. [..]
Daesh executions rise quickly in Mosul. [..]
Thousands more PMF fighters arriving southwest of Mosul. [..]
IFP 9 miles from Mosul, CTS 4 miles, others in Bashiqa, Tel Keif 8-9 miles [..]
Turks still targeting YPG in Syria. [..]
Opposition groups, YPG battle each other in Aleppo city. [..]
REPORTS FROM IRAQ
NATIONAL NEWS
Prime Minister Abadi warns of terrorist attacks intended to confuse the security situation in the country. He also blamed some politicians who repeat Daesh’s “news” reports. Abadi says Iraqi forces have reached an advanced stage in the Mosul liberation campaign. He also says the plan is to keep people in their houses and not asking them to leave. [Sumaria] [Sumaria]
Abadi says he feels surprised about the French statement that more Daesh terrorists are coming from Syria to Mosul and says he will check the issue with the Coalition. [Mada]
The US Envoy to the Coalition, Brett McGurk, says in a press conference at the US Embassy in Baghdad that the Mosul battle is going as planned but it will be difficult and will take some time. He also says that Daesh will try more attacks like those in Rutba and Kirkuk so as to divert the attention. He also says the PKK is a terrorist organization and it causes problems for Turkey and the KRG. [Anadolu]
He also says the Turkish troops in Bashiqa are not part of the Coalition and the US is working to solve that issue in diplomatic ways. [Mada]
McGurk confirmed that the Coalition didn’t conduct the mysterious airstrike on Daquq. [Mada]
The Chairman of the CoR’s Displacement Committee says officials were involved in “stealing” aid materials that were allocated for displaced people from Ninewa. He also says the camps can’t do enough because the government is not releasing the funds allocated for the displaced people. [ARA]
The Turkish Minister of Foreign Affairs says 4 Turkish F-16s are participating in the Mosul Battle. He also says Turkey might conduct a military operation against the PKK in Iraq. He says the Turkish artillery is supporting the Peshmerga in the Bashiqa battles based on a request from the Kurdish forces. [Masdar] [BasNews] [Sumaria]
The Turkish Prime Minister says a “safe zone” should be established in northern Iraq in coordination with the KRG. [Sumaria]
The Coalition says it conducted 8 airstrikes on Daesh targets in Iraq, five around Mosul, the others around Sinjar, Sultan Abdullah, and Rutba (1). [InherentResolve]
BAGHDAD
Security-related incidents reported
Center (Rusafa, Karkh, etc.)
The Rusafa Court says a captured man admitted he was providing Daesh terrorists with new official IDs under new names. [Sumaria]
North (Tarmiya, Taji, etc.)
Daesh says it beheaded a Shia cleric in Tarmiya. [A3maq]
An MoI source says an Iraqi Army soldier was killed and four wounded when an IED exploded on their vehicle in Taji. [Mada]
A security source says Counter Terrorism units defused an IED that was planted near a popular market in the Sheikh Hamad area, in Tarmiya. [Ghad]
A security source says IFP EOD defused 4 IEDs and 2 explosives vests found in a house under construction in Saba Al-Bor. [Mada]
Iraqi Army 22nd brigade found a Daesh guesthouse and an IED in the Tabi area. [BOC Facebook Page]
East (Sadr City, New Baghdad, etc.)
An MoI source says one person was killed and six wounded when an IED exploded near a commercial area in Niariya. [Mada]
An MoI source says one person killed and six wounded when a sticky IED exploded under a small bus on Fallah Street in Sadr City. [Mada]
Southeast (Mada’in, etc.)
A local police source says the body of an unknown man was found shot in Nahrawan. [Maalomah]
An MoI source says a joint police and army force captured 2 men wanted on terrorism charges in Hawi village in Mada’in. [Mada]
South (Dora, Yusufiyah, Mahmudiya, etc.)
An MoI source says unknown armed men broke into a house in Albu Aitha village in Daraa, shooting and killing three brothers. The source says two of the brothers were working with the MoD and the third was a member of the Tribal PMFs. [Mada]
An MoI source says three people were killed and eight wounded when an IED exploded near a popular market in Latifiya. [Mada]
Iraqi Army 23rd brigade defused an IED in the Tal Al-Dhahab area. [BOC Facebook Page]
West (Ghazaliya, Abu Ghraib, etc.)
Iraqi Army 54th brigade found 39 rockets, a rocket launcher and other explosives in the Arsan area in Abu Ghraib. Terrorists were planning to use the rockets in the coming days. [MoD Website]
Total Baghdad incidents reported: 14 (Includes only incidents reported)
IED incidents 8
ANBAR
Falluja
Iraqi Army 59th brigade defused 4 IEDs in the Albu Dalaf area, near Qarma. [BOC Facebook Page]
Rutba/Western Anbar
The Mayor of Rutba says Iraqi forces regained control over Rutba city completely after securing houses and government buildings that had been captured by Daesh. [Mada]
The Anbar Operations commander says Iraqi forces, supported by Iraqi and Coalition airstrikes, killed 40 Daesh terrorists and destroyed 14 vehicles in Rutba. He says Iraqi forces evacuated families temporarily in order to search for Daesh cells. [Sumaria]
Later on, he announced that Rutba was completely cleared and several families trapped by Daesh were freed. He revised his estimates to 60 Daesh terrorists killed and 10 of their vehicles destroyed. [Ghad]
Photos of Iraqi forces in charge of Rutba after foiling the Daesh attack [Sumaria]
Daesh issues a video of a suicide attack with a vehicle bomb on an Iraqi Army military position in Rutba on Monday. The video is not complete. [A3maq]
Daesh issues a video of the attack on Rutba. [A3maq]
DaeshDaily comment. The Daesh propaganda machine is not deterred by facts. Daesh lost in Rutba, but the video will be done so as to make it look like they won. The Daesh fanboys will be happy. Daesh is always victorious (even when it loses).
SALAHUDDIN
Shirqat
The Joint Operations Command (JOC) says Iraqi forces shot and killed a group of Daesh terrorists north of Khanuqa village. [Etejah]
The JOC says Salahuddin Police destroyed a Daesh tunnel in Shirqat. [Etejah]
Daesh says it destroyed 3 vehicles carrying PMF fighters in the Zuwiya intersection, south of Shirqat. [A3maq]
Daesh publishes photos of an attack on the Iraqi Army near Tilul Al-Baj. The photos don’t show any Iraqi soldiers, vehicles, or military positions. [DawaAlhaq]
Samarra
The Samarra Operations Commander says security forces captured a Daesh cell of 9 terrorists responsible for planting IEDs and for assassination operations in Samarra. [Mawazin]
DIYALA
Baquba/southeast Diyala
The Diyala Police spokesman says Police Emergency units captured 2 Daesh terrorists who fled from Mosul when the Ninewa liberation operations started, in the Tahrir area of Baquba. [Mada]
Muqdadiya/Abu Saida
The Dijla Operations Commander says his troops found an explosives vest, rockets, and mortar shells in an orchard area in Al-Zor. [Sumaria]
A security source says the body of an unknown woman was found shot in Muqdadiya. [Ghad]
Northern Diyala (Kifri, Khanaqin, etc.)
The Diyala Police chief says his troops shot and killed a Daesh suicide terrorist who was wearing an explosives vest in Qara Tapa. [Mada]
The Dijla Operations commander says his troops destroyed 2 Daesh vehicle bombs in the Himrin Hills area. [Sumaria]
A security source says Daesh terrorists destroyed an irrigation pump with an IED in Khulafa village in the Hawi area. The source says Daesh is trying to prevent farmers in the area from settling and making a living. [Sumaria]
The Chairman of the Udhaim Subdistrict Council says 10 displaced families arrived in Udhaim after being forced to leave Kirkuk. [Sumaria]
KIRKUK
Kirkuk
The Arab members in the Kirkuk Provincial Council ask for an urgent session to discuss the destruction of houses and displacement of Arab people from Qush Qaya and Qutan villages. [Sumaria]
A security source says Coalition planes killed 5 Daesh terrorists who participated in the attack on Kirkuk governorate, in an airstrike near Sari Tapa village in Laylan subdistrict. [Sumaria]
The PKK military branch said it participated in repelling Daesh attack on Kirkuk. [ARA]
The Chaldean Patriarch, Luis Sako, honors policemen who saved 14 female college students during the Daesh attack on Kirkuk. [Sumaria]
A security source says a university professor, who was a displaced man from Hawija, was killed when armed men shot at his civilian vehicle in south Kirkuk. [Ghad]
Daesh issues a video of the battles in the first day of the attack on Kirkuk. [A3maq]
Daesh publishes photos of 2 Iraqi suicide terrorists who attacked the electricity station in Dibis on Friday. [DawaAlhaq]
Southwest
The Council of Ministers has decided to pay compensations to the families of the Daquq airstrike victims. [Sumaria]
Military sources say the airstrike that killed fifteen women at a Shia religious gathering in Daquq was conducted by an Iraqi pilot who acted based on mistaken coordinates. Yalla couldn’t confirm this report from official sources. [Yalla]
A security source says their security captured several people wanted on terrorism charges, including the personal driver of Saddam’s son, in Daquq. [Mada]
A video of capturing the driver [Yalla]
NINEWA
An Iraqi Army officer said the ground assault has paused on all fronts to allow for a “reorganization and redeployment” of units. The air campaign continues, he said. [Anadolu]
Counter Terrorism troops paused their week-long advance on Mosul as they approached the city’s eastern edge on Tuesday, waiting for other Iraqi forces to move closer to the city. On the ninth day of the offensive on Mosul, the first force to get near to Mosul, advancing to within two kilometers (just over a mile), was the elite U.S.-trained Counter Terrorism Service (CTS). [Reuters]
Russian planes have reportedly deployed in the air along the Iraqi-Syrian border to target Daesh fighters fleeing Mosul. The Russian military reportedly said 300 Daesh fighters have slipped out of Mosul and reached Deir Ez-Zor in Syria. [SyriaNow] [SyriaNow]
The Russian Ministry of Defense says more than sixty civilians were killed and two hundred were wounded in Coalition airstrikes on Mosul over the last 3 days. It also says one of the airstrikes targeted a girls’ school south of the city. It says there are no “noticeable successes” in the Mosul military operations. It also says Russian warplanes are flying over the Iraqi Syrian border and are ready to launch airstrikes against the terrorists. [Ghad]
Daesh publishes photos of battles in the Ninewa area. [DawaAlhaq]
Mosul
Military developments in Mosul
A senior security source says 50 Daesh terrorists were killed when 2 vehicle bombs accidentally exploded in the west side of Mosul city. [Mawazin]
Daesh has continued mining Mosul’s streets and bridges with explosives, which it intends to detonate with the advance of Iraqi forces, local sources say. Daesh reopens the streets after it closes them to plant mines along the route, the sources say. The roads leading to the Mosul Great Mosque in the Al-Zera’i neighborhood have been mined, the sources add. The group intends to detonate “all bridges” in Mosul with the advance of Iraqi Joint Forces into eastern Mosul, the sources add. Daesh has placed vehicle bombs along roads and under bridges in the city, according to the sources. [Mawsleya]
Daesh’s elite “Usra Army” fighters have vacated the eastern half of Mosul and have redeployed to the alleyways of the “old alleys” of the western half of the city, local source said. Some in the city suspect that those old narrow alleyways are being used as hideouts for Daesh leaders. [Sumaria]
“A few hundred” Daesh fighters have arrived in Mosul from Syria in the last few days, according to a source close to the French Defense Ministry. [Sumaria]
The “Ahrar Mosul” anti-Daesh resistance group has claimed responsibility for the assassination of “Abu Farouq,” an assistant head of a office” in eastern Mosul. The assassinated Daesh official, in his 50s, was also an “Islamic education” teacher who had joined Daesh before 2014. [Sumaria]
Daesh’s numbers in Mosul are in continuous decline as the group sends more and more of its members to the front lines, local sources say. [Mawsleya]
Mosul liberation campaign
Unidentified artillery units reportedly shelled Daesh positions heavily in western Mosul. [PressIraq]
The PMF’s northern sector spokesman has said that the statement of the NMF (recently renamed the “Ninewa Guards”) of Atheel Al-Nujaifi about participating in the Mosul campaign is “baseless” and that it has no role in the fighting for Mosul. [Waradana]
DaeshDaily comment: See below under Tel Keif where the Ninewa Guards are reportedly fighting in the operation.
Daesh announcers have acknowledged the “fierceness” of the fighting for Mosul on its radio broadcast in the city, local sources said. The acknowledgement comes amid a palpable decline in Daesh morale in the city, the sources added. [Mawsleya]
Conditions in Mosul
Daesh executed 55 young men in Al-Sawas Square in central Mosul after arresting them at random in the areas of Al-Mansour and Wadi Hajar, two villages that mounted popular resistance to Daesh. [BasNews]
Daesh executed twenty-three people, including Yazidi girls, in 2 hospitals in Mosul city. [Harbi]
According to a report citing a local source, Daesh hung a bloodied young man’s body from an electricity pylon in the Bab Al-Tob neighborhood in central Mosul on Tuesday. When a crowd gathered, a portly Daesh leader known as “Al-Haji” reportedly appeared, and delivered an angry lecture about how Daesh “kills all those who target the Caliphate’s soldiers.” The Daesh leader then suddenly fell dead, covered in his own blood after being struck by a sniper bullet, the source said. A chaotic scene reportedly ensued as Daesh militants began to fire randomly. [Sumaria]
UNOCHA’s spokesman has expressed concern that Daesh could be committing massacres of civilians inside Mosul, citing “preliminary reports” such as Iraqi troops’ discovery of 70 bodies in Tilul Nasr village. [IPA]
Iraqis living under Daesh in Ninewa have been subjected to horrific treatment by increasingly volatile fighters and are being used as human shields as US-backed Iraqi coalition forces draw closer to the city, the UN has said.
The UN said on Tuesday that preliminary reports have emerged of mass executions. Between 20 and 50 ex-police officers were shot on Sunday, spokesperson Rupert Colville said, as Daesh attempts to quiet any signs of rebellion ahead of what is likely to be heavy fighting for control of Mosul.
Around 70 civilians who died from bullet wounds were discovered by security forces in the village of Tilul Nasr on 20 October, and 15 more were killed and their bodies thrown into a river in Safina, 28 miles (45 km) south of Mosul.
Three women and three girls were shot and four more children injured because they did not move quickly enough during a forced relocation, the UN said, as one of the children had a disability. [Independent]
Daesh executed nine of its own fighters who reportedly fled the battlefront, by binding their hands and feet and lowering the men into a trench of burning crude oil, a local source said. [Sumaria]
One of the “most prominent” Daesh IED makers, known as “Al-Homsi,” died when a barrel of C4 explosives detonated in an operation gone wrong in the Al-Arabi district of Mosul, a local source said. Three of his associated were also killed in the blast, the source added. [Sumaria]
Daesh has filled the streets of the city with posters instructing residents to “smash” their satellite dishes, a local source said. The posters include 20 religious justifications for the instructions, but the source suggests that this is a new bid by Daesh to isolate the people of Mosul from outside news. [Sumaria]
PMF sources say Iraqi forces are jamming Daesh wireless communications in the Ninewa area. [Harbi]
A local source says the Daesh hisbah official, a terrorist from an Arab country, and a female German citizen terrorist who was responsible for female suicide terrorists, disappeared from Mosul with “important” documents and millions of dollars. The source says Daesh leaders are leaving the city with the arrival of Iraqi forces. [Sumaria]
Daesh publishes photos of “normal life” in the Sumer area on the east side of Mosul. [DawaAlhaq]
Shura/Hammam Alil
The Iraqi Federal Police (IFP) says it killed 40 Daesh terrorists and captured 5 in the 9th day of its Ninewa operation. It also says it destroyed 6 vehicle bombs and 92 IEDs. [Baghdadia]
The IFP Commander says his troops are 15 km (9 miles) away from the western side of Mosul city. [Harbi]
The IAA targeted Daesh in several locations in the Shura area, killing 16 terrorists and destroying a hideout, a booby-trapped house, a car bomb, and 2 other vehicles. [MoD Website]
The IWMC says the IAA destroyed 4 machine gun mounted vehicles and 5 motorcycles in the Shura area. [Harbi]
The IFP reportedly targeted Daesh in the village of Khawtiya (spelling approx.), killing seven Daesh members. [Harbi]
A PMF source reportedly said Daesh is moving IEDs into the Hammam Al-Alil area. [PressIraq]
Daesh is digging new trenches south of Mosul and sowing them with IEDs linked by wires to remote detonators in a bid to hamper the progress of advancing Iraqi Joint Forces a security source said. The trenches are reported to stretch from the south of the city toward Tal Afar. [Etejah] The southern part of Tal Afar province extends to well south of Mosul city.
Thousands of PMF fighters, headed by Hadi Al-Ameri the Badr Commander, are arriving southwest of Mosul to participate in the liberation battles and to prevent Daesh terrorists from fleeing toward Syria. PMF elite units arrived in areas southeast of Mosul. [Harbi] [Sumaria]
The Ashura Brigade PMF reportedly captured a village southwest of Mosul. [PressIraq]
PMFs south of Mosul reportedly received an unspecified number of displaced families. [Harbi]
Daesh says it destroyed an Iraqi Army Humvee and an SUV near the Shura intersection, south of Mosul. [A3maq]
Qayara
CoR Speaker Jubouri arrived at the Qayara Airfield and met with military commanders. [BasNews]
The IFP have captured 1200 square km (463 square miles) since the launch of the Mosul operation and have begun handing the captured territory over to Ninewa Police, according to General Ra’ed Shakir Jawdat, Commander of the IFP. The commander also said his troops had captured 56 villages, freed 1500 families, killed 75 Daesh fighters, and destroyed 92 vehicle bombs. [Ghad]
Daesh says it broke into the house of a PMF commander in Imam Gharbi village, south of Qayara, and killed 3 PMF fighters. [A3maq]
Here Daesh says it killed four fighters and wounded another in the attack. [A3maq]
Good read from NPR: Near Mosul, Some Residents Flee Daesh, Others Stay And Fight With Daesh.
Nineveh Plain
Hamdaniya
The Counter Terrorism units are 6 km (3.7 miles) from the eastern outskirts of Mosul, according to the force’s commander. The units are moving into Bazwaya village area, an MoD official said. [IPA] [Harbi]
400 individuals have fled the village of Bazwaya east of Mosul to Al-Khazer Camp in the southeast of Erbil governorate, according to a media representative of the chairman of Ninewa GC. [Sumaria]
[Harbi]
Daesh says Peshmerga and PMF units, supported by Coalition planes and Apaches, attacked its positions in the center of Hamdaniya District, but it stopped the attack, killing 4 Peshmerga and PMF fighters, damaging an Abrams tank, and destroying a BMP armored vehicle. [A3maq]
Photos of a purported Syrian tank, reportedly recovered from a Daesh site in Bazwaya. [PressIraq]
Tel Keif
Peshmerga fighters completely control the strategic village of Khorsabad in the Nawaran area close to the Hamdaniya border, an Iraqi military source said. [ARA] Khorsabad is an Assyrian village about nine miles from Mosul.
After besieging the city for several days the Peshmerga have entered Batnaya, 3 miles north of Tel Keif, and now also control the Christian town of Alqosh near the Kurdistan border, a Nineveh Plain Protection Force official said. The Christian PMF, Nineveh Plains Protection Force, reportedly participated in the operation. [Sumaria] [Harbi]
Iraqi Army and Ninewa Guard militiamen captured a fuel storage facility belonging to the Northern Oil Company, and a gas factory in Tel Keif, as well as a village in the area and the principal road leading to Tel Keif city, an MoD statement said. [Baghdadia]
The IAA killed 7 Daesh terrorists, including 2 snipers, and destroyed 2 machine gun-mounted vehicles and a hideout in the Tel Keif area. [MoD Website]
Daesh says it destroyed a Peshmerga Humvee with a mortar shell near the Free Zone area, west of Tel Keif. [A3maq]]
The IWMC says Coalition planes killed tens of Daesh terrorists and destroyed 3 rocket launchers, 5 vehicle bombs, and 8 tunnels in the Tel Keif area. [AIN]
The Peshmerga captured Derik village in the Bashiqa area and are preparing to enter Bashiqa city in the coming hours. [Rudaw]
Bashiqa
Daesh says Peshmerga and PMF units, supported by Coalition planes, attacked Omar Qabchi village, northeast of Mosul (southeast of Khorsabad), but it stopped the attack and forced them to retreat. [A3maq]
Daesh says it damaged a Peshmerga Abrams tank with a missile near the Omar Qabchi intersection. [A3maq]
Northwest (Tal Afar, Sinjar)
Daesh says 2 of its suicide terrorists attacked Peshmerga units in Aski Mosul village, north of Tal Afar, with explosives vests. Daesh also says it destroyed a Peshmerga vehicle with an IED near the village. [DawaAlhaq]
Daesh publishes a photo of one of the Iraqi suicide terrorists. [DawaAlhaq]
A PMF source says 3,000 Turkman PMFs from Tal Afar will participate in the liberation operations of their district. [Harbi]
On Monday, a security source said unspecified “security forces” killed a Daesh attacker wearing a suicide vest who was attempting to infiltrate Ninewa Police positions in Aski Mosul.
REPORTS FROM SYRIA
Turkish military sources say the Turkish Army attacked 72 Daesh targets and 15 YPG targets in north Syria on Monday. [ZamanAlWasl]
Saleh Muslim, the president of the PYD, told the German a TV network that Turkey got the green light from the United States and Russia before bombing and shelling the YPG units in north Aleppo. [Dorar]
The Coalition says it conducted 3 airstrikes on Daesh targets in Syria, one near Abu Kamal and two near Mare’. [InherentResolve]
Northeast (Hasaka, Raqqa)
Hasaka
Local activists say people of Al-Mahawesh village in the Mount Abdul Aziz area clashed with the PYD Asayesh who were trying to force young people from the village into military service. A young man and two Asayesh members were wounded in the clashes. [BasNews]
The PYD Asayish says the Turkish Army shot and killed a young man in Amuda. [ARA]
The PYD Asayish defused 2 IEDs near Tal Hamis. [ARA]
Raqqa
Raqqa Is Being Slaughtered Silently says Daesh opened a school for Turkish speaking children in Raqqa. [EnabBaladi]
Northwest (Aleppo, Idlib)
Aleppo city
The SOHR says heavy battles erupted between opposition groups and the YPG near Ain Al-Tal area in Aleppo city. [SyriaHR]
Ahrar Al-Sham says the YPG attacked the area but it stopped the attack, killing or wounding “tens” of YPG fighters. [ARA]
The Russian Ministry of Defense says Russian and Syrian planes haven’t conducted airstrikes on Aleppo for seven days. It also says fifty people were smuggled secretly from Aleppo to government controlled areas. [ARA]
Jarabulus
7,741 people have returned to their houses in Jarabulus from Turkey since the city was liberated from Daesh. [Anadolu]
Al-Bab
Turkish artillery killed six people from the same family when its shells fell on a displaced people’s camp near Al-Burj village, 90 km (56 miles) north of Al-Bab. The village had been occupied by Daesh. [Hawar] [Hawar]
The YPG-backed Hawar says the General Commander of Jabha Shamiya, an opposition group, was killed and seven opposition military vehicles were destroyed in battles with Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) factions near Tal Madhiq village. [Hawar]
Hawar says the opposition groups targeted the village with chemical weapons. [Hawar]
Opposition groups captured Kassar, Tal Jijan, and Tal Madhiq villages after heavy battles with Daesh. [EnabBaladi]
Tal Jijan village lies within the administrative borders of Al-Bab and it’s 14 km (9 miles) away from the city. [Dorar]
The opposition says Syrian Army helicopters dropped barrel bombs on the opposition in the area while the opposition was fighting the YPG and Syrian troops, killing three opposition fighters and wounding ten. It says this is the first time the Syrian Army has targeted the Turkey-backed Operation Euphrates Shield groups. [Dorar]
The SOHR says six opposition fighters and one SDF fighter were killed in the battles. It also says Turkish artillery shelled SDF positions in the area. [SyriaHR]
Azaz
The Turkish Army and Syrian opposition groups targeted Um Hawsh, Harbal, and Hasiya villages with heavy artillery (video). [Hawar]
The YPG stopped an opposition attack on Hasiya and Samouqa villages, killing several fighters and destroying a machine gun mounted vehicle. The battles are still ongoing. [Hawar]
Five opposition groups fighters were killed and twenty-eight wounded by a vehicle bomb attack near Baraan village. [ZamanAlWasl]
Daesh says one of its Kurdish suicide terrorists attacked Turkish and opposition troops in Baraan village south of Akhtarin with a vehicle bomb, killing or wounding “tens” of them. [DawaAlhaq]
Several people were killed in SDF shelling on Mare’. [ZamanAlWasl]
The SOHR says three opposition fighters were killed by a Daesh land mine in Tal Maled. [SyriaHR]
The SOHR says a child was killed and other civilians wounded in an SDF shelling on Kaljibrin. [SyriaHR]
Afrin
Turkey backed opposition groups targeted 4 villages in Afrin with tens of mortars, wounding two civilians. [Hawar]
Manbij
Daesh says two people were killed and ten wounded in 13 “American” airstrikes on Tal Aswad village, south of Manbij, on Monday. [A3maq]
Other Northwest Syria
Local sources say the Turkish Army brought more than 20 vehicles loaded with ammunition to Syria through the Atma Border Crossing in Idlib during the last 2 days. [Hawar]
Central and West (Homs, Hama, etc.)
A special source says a “large” Russian military unit was deployed days ago to a military base in the Tadmur area. [ZamanAlWasl]
Daesh publishes 2 photos of its terrorists meeting with tribal leaders near Sukhnah. [DawaAlhaq]
East (Deir Ez-Zor)
The Syrian Army destroyed a 20m Daesh tunnel in Hay Al-Sinaa in Deir Ez-Zor. [SyriaNow]
The SOHR says 2 Daesh terrorists were killed in the tunnel. [SyriaHR]
The SOHR says a Daesh security member fled from Mayadin and joined the regime’s security service in Damascus. [SyriaHR]
The SOHR says the Syrian Army and Daesh exchanged shelling in different areas in Deir Ez-Zor. [SyriaHR]
Daesh issues a video of 4 Syrian soldiers who surrendered to its terrorists in Deir Ez-Zor. [A3maq]
OTHER MIDDLE EAST/NORTH AFRICA REPORTS
North Africa
Egypt
Counter Terrorism units cleared the Bala’a area, west of Rafah, one of ABM’s major strongholds, after heavy clashes, killing 6 terrorists. [ElWatan]
Six civilians, including a 13-year-old boy were wounded by 4 IED explosions in south Rafah and south Sheikh Zuweid. [VetoGate]
An Egyptian soldier was killed by a sniper in the Abu Tawila area, south of Sheikh Zuweid. [VetoGate]
Daesh supporters issue a report about civilian casualties resulting from Egyptian shelling and bombing on North Sinai areas. [DawaAlhaq]
Libya
Central coast
A medical source says GNA troops freed an Indian doctor and five Philippine nurses from Daesh in Sirte. Daesh had kidnapped them months ago and forced them to treat its terrorists. [Wasat]
Daesh says it destroyed an armored vehicle and a car, both carrying Government of National Accord (GNA) fighters, with 2 IEDs near the Nakhla Intersection, west of Sirte. [A3maq]
The GNA Military says its troops killed a Daesh local commander and a Daesh Palestinian terrorist in Sirte. [AfriGate] [Libya24]
AFRICOM says it conducted 7 airstrikes on Daesh in Sirte between October 21 and October 23. [Wasat]
Tunisia
The Tunisian Ministry of Interior says security units captured a cell of Daesh members in El Kef. [Tunisien]
Security units captured 2 American brothers who arrived in Jendouba and were promoting takfiri ideas. The security found jihadi materials on the brothers’ computers. Speaking through a translator, they said they arrived in Tunisia for jihad. [Tunisien]
SOCIAL MEDIA
A Saudi jihadi “cleric” said that God is punishing Syrian people with airstrikes because of their sins, creating a social media firestorm among Syrian activists. [EnabBaladi] [Twitter] [JustPaste]
DaeshDaily comment. This idiot claims to be the second Bin Laden because of his fortune, which he uses to support radical groups in Syria. He is actually talking about Sunni Muslims in Syria. This attitude reflects the takfiri hatred towards countries with much older civilizations. Sunnis of Syria, Iraq, Egypt, and other countries are not Muslim enough for the takfiris. Many jihadis have expressed their hatred towards Syrian people, while at the same time living in Syria and claiming to be fighting for the Syrians. After living for decades under the criminal Baathist regime and suffering from its ideology, people of Syrian are facing another dangerous ideology coming from the desert.
Videos of the Day
Kirkuk. A video of Arab houses demolished in the 1 Huzairan area in Kirkuk [YouTube]
A video of a displaced family kicked out of Kirkuk [YouTube]
A video of capturing young men and displacing them from Qutan village in Dibis [YouTube]
Ninewa. A video of a Coalition airstrike destroying a Daesh staging area near Mosul [CJTF]
A video of Shia militias beating up two boys in Ninewa after accusing them of being Daesh members [Twitter]
Nineveh Plain. A video of the room of a Daesh terrorist in a village in the Bashiqa area. The terrorist put the photo of a Kurdish female singer on his wall. [Rudaw]
A video of people of Hamdaniya celebrating the liberation of their city [Sumaria]
DAESH MEDIA
Daesh issues infographics about the Mosul battles. [A3maq]
Daesh issues a propaganda video about its terrorists in Abyan, in Aden. [DawaAlhaq]
