October 4, 2016
Mosul (Rudaw)
Today’s Major Developments
Turkey’s rhetoric on Mosul gets more threatening. […]
IAA, Iraqi ground units stop Daesh counter-attack in Haditha. […]
Half of Shirqat’s displaced persons have returned. […]
Italy pledges help to Diyala. […]
Iraqi forces, Peshmerga unleash rocket & mortar attacks in Nineveh Plain, Mosul. […]
Mosul city campaign estimated to start in about two weeks. […]
Iraq and UN have plans in place for major displaced persons wave from Mosul. […]
Eight Syrian journalists were killed in September. […]
Turkey-supported opposition groups, Daesh battle over villages in northern Syria. […]
Daesh and Al-Nusra battle in Lebanon. […]
REPORTS FROM IRAQ
NATIONAL NEWS
Turkey President Erdogan says in a TV interview on Sunday that only Sunni residents should stay in Mosul and Tal Afar after the cities are liberated from Daesh. He says only Sunni Kurds, Sunni Arabs, and Sunni Turkmen should return. He says “we will do our best in Mosul liberation, and we have to be on the ‘solution table’, and we should not be satisfied only with monitoring.” He also says he will not allow the Shia militias and the PKK to participate in the operations, and he will do everything he can to “stop this game”. [MiddleEastOnline]
DaeshDaily comment. This statement is horrifying from multiple perspectives. First, Erdogan is blatantly interfering in Iraq’s internal affairs, and this statement comes after countless public objections from the Iraqi government and other disapproving statements from the US and the UN. One has to assume that he intends to continue his interference until he gets what he wants.
Second, his statement is highly sectarian. Only Sunni Arabs allowed in Mosul and Tal Afar? What about all the minorities who already live there? Sunni Turkmen are OK but Shia Turkmen don’t have his approval? Who is he to tell Iraqi citizens that they can’t go home?
Third, the implications of his statement are pro-Daesh, because they are intended to complicate the already complex Iraq and Coalition strategy for retaking Mosul and the rest of Ninewa. This is yet another round of the efforts since 2003 by Iraq’s major Sunni neighbors, Turkey and Saudi Arabia, to undermine the Iraqi government. This will validate the long-standing belief that Erdogan and Turkey were pro-Daesh from the beginning, which is why Turkey allowed thousands of Daesh terrorists to enter Iraq and allowed them to cross the Turkey-Syria border at will, and suggests that Erdogan has not entirely switched sides. It now turns out that Daesh’s plan to empty Tal Afar from its Shia residents, and to empty Ninewa of its religious minorities, has strong support in Ankara.
Fourth, it raises suspicions that the improbable scenario of Turkey torpedoing the Mosul liberation fight by actually sending Turkish troops into the city may not be so far-fetched as most people believed.
An Iraqi military expert says that Turkey’s plan will allow Daesh members to change uniforms and enter the city again, under the guise of Arab tribal fighters.
Prime Minister Abadi says the Coalition refuses the presence of Turkish troops in Iraq. He also says the Turkish military presence in Iraq has no explanation, since Daesh in Syria is much closer to the Turkish border. [Rudaw]
Abadi warns that the “Turkish adventure” in Iraq would lead to a regional war. He says Iraq doesn’t want a war with Turkey. [Sumaria]
The CoR approved a resolution that denounces the Turkey Parliament decision to extend the presence of Turkish troops in Iraq for another year. The resolution describes the Turkish troop presence as “hostile” and like an “occupier”. [Sumaria]
The Council of Ministers issued a statement denouncing Erdogan’s statement and saying Erdogan aims at creating sectarian strife in Iraq. [Sumaria]
The Turkey Prime Minister says ethnic battles will erupt in Mosul after the liberation. He also says the US plans for the Mosul liberation are “not clear”. [Sumaria]
DaeshDaily comment. This is not a warning; it’s a threat. He is making excuses for what Turkey might do.
We think Erdogan’s moves into the Ninewa situation can’t be finessed any more. They have to be confronted. He obviously has no respect for Iraq and no fear of its military, and has blown off all the public objections. He has no serious opposition in Turkey at the moment. He seems to be assuming he can do whatever he wants. He has already established with his erratic foreign policy that his next moves are unpredictable. He needs to hear a message that will get his respect. That message has to come from Washington, from the top, and it needs to be completely clear that Ninewa will be returning to Iraqi control and that no foreign interference against Iraq will be tolerated.
Ninewa MP Abd Al-Rahman Al-Luwayzi said that Daesh could reappear in Mosul under a different name and guise, referring to the NMF of Atheel Al-Nujaifi as armed groups with potential links to terrorist activity that could gain power in Mosul with protection from the Turkish troops currently based in Iraq. [AlMasalah]
An AHH official says his militia organization sent a request to Prime Minister Abadi asking him to replace the Italian forces near the Mosul Dam with Iraqi forces and PMFs. [BasNews]
DaeshDaily comment. From a group of thugs to a powerful militia that tries to tell the Prime Minister what to do.
The Coalition says it conducted 10 airstrikes on Daesh targets in Iraq, in or near Mosul (4), Qayara (1), Sultan Abdullah (1), and Sinjar (1); and Ramadi (1) and Hit (2). [InherentResolve]
BAGHDAD
Security-related incidents reported
North (Tarmiya, Taji, etc.)
A police source says the bodies of four men and three women were found shot in the Meshahda area, in Tarmiya. [Sumaria]
Iraqi Army 45th brigade found 7 IEDs and other explosives in the Um Najm area. [BOC Facebook Page]
Northeast (Adhamiya, etc.)
An MoI source says one person was killed and seven wounded when an IED exploded near a commercial area in Suleikh. [Mada]
East (Sadr City, New Baghdad, etc.)
A police source says the bodies of two unknown men were found burned in the Hamidiya area, in Sadr City. [Sumaria]
South (Dora, Yusufiyah, Mahmudiya, etc.)
An MoI source says two people were killed and eight wounded when an IED exploded near a wholesale market in Yusufiyah. [Mada]
An MoI source says a woman was found killed in her house in Hay Al-Mechanik, in Dora. [Mada]
Daesh says its snipers killed an Iraqi soldier in the Alimiya area in Arab Jubour. [JustPaste]
Iraqi Army 55th brigade found 6 IEDs in the Harkawi and Albu Mifrij areas. [BOC Facebook Page]
Iraqi Army 23rd brigade destroyed 2 Daesh guesthouses and found large quantities of explosives materials in the Khtaimiya area. [BOC Facebook Page]
Southwest (Rasheed, etc.)
A security source says one civilian was killed and five wounded when an IED exploded near a commercial area in Hay Al-Furat. [Baghdadia]
Daesh says it killed two policemen with an IED in the Muwasalat area. [JustPaste]
An MoI source says an MoI employee and three civilians were wounded when a sticky IED exploded under his vehicle in Bayya’. [Mada]
Total Baghdad incidents reported: 12 (Includes only incidents reported)
ANBAR
The Ministry of Displacement and Migration says 64,325 families have returned to their houses in Anbar. [SotKurdistan]
Falluja
The Mayor of Falluja says a member of the Anbar Provincial Council survived an assassination attempt when an IED exploded on his convoy on the road between Baghdad and Falluja. He says one of the bodyguards was wounded in the attack. [Mada]
Ramadi
The IWMC says Iraqi forces captured the Albu Assaf area. Later on, the IWMC says Iraqi Army 10th division captured the Tarabsha area, the last Daesh stronghold in Jazeera Ramadi. [Baghdadia] [Baghdadia]
The MoD says Iraqi Army 10th division killed 5 Daesh terrorists and destroyed 2 vehicles and 2 motorcycles in the Albu Ali Al-Jassem area. [Etejah]
Hit/Haditha
The Jazeera Operations Commander says Coalition planes attacked Daesh targets in the desert area east of Kubaisa, killing 20 terrorists and destroying 8 vehicles carrying heavy machine guns and rocket launchers. He also says that Daesh is trying to send reinforcements to its terrorists trapped in Jazeera Hit and open new battlefronts to distract the Iraqi forces. [Mada]
A Tribal PMF commander says Iraqi forces, supported by the IAA, destroyed a Daesh convoy of 5 vehicles in the Zuwiya area west of Hit. He also says the IAA destroyed 2 Daesh guesthouses in Jazeera Hit. [Mada]
Rutba/Western Anbar
A Tribal PMF commander says Iraqi forces, supported by the IAA, destroyed 2 Daesh convoys in Anah District, killing 40 Daesh terrorists. [Mada]
He says the convoy intended to attack Barwana and Haditha. He says the Daesh commander of west Anbar had ordered his terrorists to launch a major attack on Haditha District. [Harbi]
The MoD says the IAF targeted a Daesh military camp in the Horan area, killing “tens” of terrorists and destroying 4 vehicles. The IAF also attacked a Daesh convoy in a nearby area, killing several terrorists and damaging 3 vehicles. [Etejah]
SALAHUDDIN
Shirqat
A member of the Salahuddin Provincial Council says half of the displaced people from Shirqat returned to their houses. He also says Daesh continued its shelling and rocketing on the city from the other side of the river. [Mada]
Daesh says it targeted Iraqi forces with 5 mortars in the Shirqat area. [JustPaste]
Baiji
Daesh says it targeted Iraqi forces in several areas north of Baiji with 110 mortars. [JustPaste]
Tikrit
Daesh says its snipers killed two PMF fighters in the Allas Oilfield. [JustPaste]
Southern Salahuddin
Iraqi Army 59th brigade defused 2 IEDs in the Tal Faranci (French Hill) area, southwest of Dujail. [BOC Facebook Page]
DIYALA
The Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation has provided funding for IOM to implement a project to contribute to stabilization of conflict-affected communities in Diyala governorate, Iraq.
The one-year project aims to foster social cohesion, reduce tensions between local communities and displaced Iraqis and returnees, and support the role of women in peace and security. [ReliefWeb]
Baquba/southeast Diyala
Daesh says it killed an Intelligence Service member in the Qatoun area. [JustPaste]
Muqdadiya/Abu Saida
A local official in Diyala says 475 displaced families cannot return to their houses in Khalaniya village in Muqdadiya because of tribal tensions caused by Daesh crimes. [Sumaria]
DaeshDaily comment. The same story again. Daesh terrorists commit crimes against civilians, and the victims’ families don’t allow Daesh terrorists’ families to return. The terrorists escape and leave their families displaced.
The Diyala Police say they captured 4 people wanted on terrorism charges in Muqdadiya. [Mada]
Northern Diyala (Kifri, Khanaqin, etc.)
The Diyala Police chief says his troops stopped a Daesh attack on Albu Jirish village, west of Udhaim, and destroyed 5 IEDs and a booby-trapped motorcycle. [Mada]
A PMF commander says his troops found a Daesh vehicle bomb and captured several terrorists in Saadiya. [Mada]
Daesh says it killed two “PMF members” in raids on their houses in the Um Tlail area, in Udhaim. [JustPaste]
The Dijla Operations Commander says his troops found a Daesh military camp in the Himrin Mountains area and captured 10 terrorists, and confiscated weapons and explosives. [Sumaria]
KIRKUK
Kirkuk
A Kirkuk police source says Joint Security forces captured 45 terrorism suspects in Huzairan area in east Kirkuk. [BasNews]
Hawija
A security source says one civilian was killed and six members of his family wounded, included women and children, by a Daesh IED near Murra village, 35 km (22 miles) west of Kirkuk, while they were trying to escape from Hawija. [Mada]
A security source says seven people were killed and seven wounded when a Daesh IED exploded on them in the Himrin Mountain area. The source says the victims were trying to escape Hawija. [Sumaria]
A local source says unknown armed men shot and killed a Daesh secret informant in Hawija. The source says armed men captured a secret Daesh archive a few weeks ago, and got information about its members and informants in Hawija. [Sumaria]
NINEWA
Nineveh Plain
Iraqi (16th Division), Coalition, and Peshmerga units have “rained shells and rockets” on Daesh locations east of Mosul, according to sources inside the city. The attacks occurred in Bashiqa and Fadhiliya in Mosul’s Bashiqa subdistrict east of the city; Tel Keif and Al-Qawsiyat in Tel Keif District; Karamlish and Kaberli in Hamdaniya District, and the Mosul Free Trade Zone.
Citizens of Mosul reportedly believed that this shelling marked the launch of the operation to dislodge Daesh from Mosul, which was apparently what Daesh members believed as well. ARA’s sources reported that Daesh members disappeared into the civilian population and no Daesh movements were observed in the city. [ARA]
Turkish troops shelled Fadhiliya from their positions at Zilkan base in Bashiqa on Tuesday morning, killing two brothers and wounding four other civilians as well as destroying eight civilian homes in the village inhabited predominantly by members of the minority Shabak religion, a Ninewa security source said. Shabak MP Salim Jumaa confirmed the shelling and said the two residents who perished in the shelling were children. [Mada] [Mada]
Daesh says it targeted Peshmerga positions with 80 mortars in different places in the Nawaran Mountain and Zahra Khatun areas. [JustPaste]
Peshmerga commanders say Daesh intensified its attacks on Wanke subdistrict during the last 2 weeks. They say that Daesh is trying to delay the anticipated Mosul battle by attacking the subdistrict, which is 20 km (12.5 miles) northeast of Mosul in Tel Keif. [Rudaw]
Mosul
Mosul Campaign
Al-Salam Hospital (formerly Saddam Hospital) received 25 people wounded by the shelling on Tuesday, and “tens” of other wounded were sent to other hospitals. Daesh blocked access to the hospital morgue in a bid to conceal the number of casualties. Daesh told family members of those who died in the shelling that it would later send them the bodies, with some food and fuel. [NewSabah]
The General Secretary of the KRG Peshmerga Ministry Jabbar Al-Yawer announced that Baghdad and Erbil have agreed a plan for the recapture of Mosul from Daesh with PMF and Coalition participation. Al-Yawer would not provide a specific date for the start of operations. [AlMirbad]
However, a Peshmerga commander on the Khazer front in Hamdaniya has told the media that the Mosul operation will launch between the 15th and 20th of this month; he said he could not be more specific. [Knooz]
The Ninewa Police Chief says the only forces that will hold the ground in Mosul are the police and Tribal PMFs. He says like what happened in Qayara, the PMFs will not enter the city. [Rudaw]
People of Mosul are saying farewell to each other after Daesh closed the city bridges and blocked the east side from the west side.
A Ninewa Operations Command source says modern military equipment has arrived for the American troops at Qayara airfield.
The source also says an Iraqi Army division arrived north of Mosul to help spearhead the attack on the city. A member of Ninewa Provincial Council says the tribes in southern Ninewa don’t have any objections against the participation of the PMFs, but they want to liberate their governorate themselves. He also says Iraqi forces will attack Al-Hawd village and move ahead towards Mosul from there. [Mada]
The UN has established a humanitarian operations center in Erbil according to Ján Kubiš, the Special Representative of the UN in Iraq, to implement its response to the humanitarian concerns expected to emerge from the operation to capture Mosul. [PressIraq]
Meanwhile, Iraq’s Minister of Displacement and Migration, Jasim Muhammad, announced Tuesday that his ministry is prepared to accommodate all persons displaced from the anticipated fighting in Mosul and that there will not be a “humanitarian catastrophe” in the wake of the operations to capture the city from Daesh. [AlNadher]
In a joint press conference with US Ambassador Douglas Silliman, the Minister said the Ministry, in coordination with the KRG, the JOC and Kirkuk, Salahuddin and Diyala governments has prepared a plan to host 750,000 displaced people from Mosul. [Rudaw]
Ambassador Silliman says the US gave $180 million as humanitarian assistance to Mosul during the last two weeks. [Sumaria]
Ninewa MP Osama Al-Nujaifi met with the US Ambassador Douglas Silliman Tuesday, after which the MP issued a statement warning of “revenge attacks and ethnic score-settling” in Mosul after its liberation. [IPA]
“Tens” of foreign journalists made their “arrival” to cover the anticipated Mosul operations, according to one report. The report does not specify where they have arrived specifically. [PressIraq]
Coalition airstrikes destroyed more than five Daesh vehicles in various areas of Mosul on Tuesday, according to local sources. [Mawsleya]
Daesh fighters in Mosul now number 4,000 after the arrival of a new contingent of fighters from Syria, according to local sources. [Mawsleya]
The IAF says it conducted 20,969 sorties on Mosul since Daesh captured the city. [BasNews]
Conditions in Mosul
The Iraqi Media Network opened a new Mosul-oriented broadcast from Qayara on 103.3 FM2 on Tuesday, according to media reports. [Maalomah] [PressIraq] Iraqi PM Abadi gave remarks on the radio addressed to the people of Mosul on Tuesday, praising the steadfastness of the Moslawis, assuring them that victory over Daesh was near, and praising Mosul’s historic tradition of peace and coexistence. Full text (in Arabic): [IPA]
However, in spite of the above efforts, the new broadcast does not reach the city of Mosul. Meanwhile, Daesh has continued broadcasting on its “Al-Bayan” station, which was reported earlier to have been put off the air, according to local sources. [Mawsleya]
Daesh’s recent arrest campaign has “refilled the prisons with innocent people” as Daesh members have raided the homes of Mosul searching for phones and communications equipment. [Mawsleya]
Daesh’s Central Council for Ifta’ (religious rulings) has issued a fatwa forbidding domestic cats in Mosul residences, according to local sources. The sources also report that Daesh has demanded that locals implement the fatwa and not transgress it. [Sumaria]
An unknown armed group attacked a Daesh hisbah patrol vehicle in eastern Mosul on Tuesday evening, killing four Daesh members inside the vehicle and escaping without being caught, according to a local source. [PUKMedia]
As material conditions worsen in Mosul, Daesh members have begun selling goods that they originally stole from Mosul residents, such as furniture, sometimes at just ten percent of the original price of the items, according to local sources. [NewSabah]
Daesh is also dismantling buildings and construction projects in Mosul to transfer the materials to Syria or sell them to loyal contractors, local sources said. The sources suggest that this shows Daesh realizes it is at the end of its rule in Mosul and is trying to strip all assets from the city while it can. [Mawsleya]
Fuel prices have spiked in Mosul amid high demand in advance of the anticipated operations to eject Daesh from the city and Daesh’s increasing difficulty moving fuel from Syria to Iraqi markets. [Mawsleya]
Qayara/Makhmur
A Ninewa Operations Command captain says Iraqi Army 15th division and Ninewa police stopped a Daesh attack on Qayara, killing many terrorists, including 4 suicide bombers. He also says Daesh targeted Qayara Airfield with locally made rockets, without causing any casualties. [BasNews]
Al-Sumaria reports that 510 families returned to their houses in Qayara from Debaga camp in Makhmur. [Sumaria]
Daesh publishes photos of targeting an Iraqi Army T72 tank with a guided missile near Qayara. [DawaAlhaq]
Daesh says it destroyed an Iraqi Army BMP armored vehicle with an SPG9 rocket on the road between Mosul and Baghdad. [JustPaste]
Northwest (Tal Afar, Sinjar)
An unknown armed group attacked a security center in Tal Afar District, destroying the center and killing six Daesh members inside, a local source said. [PUKMedia]
The Sinjar-based “Yazidi Resistance Units” have announced that they benefitted from “PKK expertise,” which helped them restore a “spirit of resistance and hope” among the Yazidis of Sinjar after the “mass extermination” the community faced at the hands of Daesh, according to the Resistance Unit spokesman. The spokesman also said that the Units were loyal to the Iraqi federal government and were required to fight terrorism in all of Iraq. Some of his fighters were involved in the battle to eject Daesh from Manbij in Syria he added. [SotAlIraq]
Daesh says it targeted Peshmerga positions with 4 rockets and 75 mortars in different places in the Sinjar area. [JustPaste]
KURDISTAN
The KRG Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani met in his office with Christian Turner, the UK’s Director General of Middle East and Africa to discuss the UK support to the Peshmerga and the preparations for the Mosul battle, according to a statement from Barzani’s office. Barzani asked the UK to support the KRG’s plan to form a joint commission between Baghdad, Erbil, and the Coalition to run Mosul after the liberation. [Sumaria]
REPORTS FROM TURKEY
The Russian news agency, Sputnik, says Daesh has a market for human body parts in Turkey. [Ghad]
Russia deployed its advanced SA-23 Gladiator missile defense system to Syria, US officials told Fox News. [Dorar]
REPORTS FROM SYRIA
Speaking in Brussels on Tuesday, Secretary of State John Kerry held out the possibility of once again working with Moscow after pulling out of talks over a Syrian cease-fire deal the day before.
“Russia knows exactly what it needs to do to get that cessation implemented in a fair and reasonable way,” Mr. Kerry said, as he urged Russia and the Assad regime to grant humanitarian access in Syria.
Mr. Kerry said the U.S. wanted Russian and Syrian warplanes out of the skies over Aleppo, but didn’t lay out a plan to do so. Senior national-security officials, including cabinet secretaries, will meet this week to weigh new options on Syria, officials said. [WSJ]
The Turkey Deputy Prime Minister says that Turkey will not leave Mosul or Raqqa in the hands of terrorist organizations after Daesh leaves. [Dorar]
The Coalition says it conducted 16 airstrikes on Daesh targets in Syria, on or near Azaz (4), Manbij (1), and Idlib (1); Raqqa (2) and Al-Shaddadi (3); and Deir Ez-Zor (3) and Albu Kamal (2). [InherentResolve]
The Syrian Network for Human Rights says eight Syrian journalists were killed during the month of September. [EnabBaladi]
Northeast (Hasaka, Raqqa)
Hasaka
The number of casualties of the Hasaka explosion increased to thirty-four dead and ninety wounded. A four-year-old girl who was wounded in the explosion has disappeared from the hospital. [Hawar]
The PYD’s Commission of Interior in Jazeera District says a 16-year-old suicide terrorist conducted the attack. [Hawar]
Four of the wounded victims were transported to hospitals in Iraqi Kurdistan. One died later in the hospital. The KRG’s Ministry of Health says it will send 5 tons of medical materials to Hasaka hospitals. [Hawar] [ARA]
Local media sources say the PYD Asayesh captured 8 people from an Arab tribe in Tal Barak in Hasaka, after accusing them of supporting the FSA. [Dorar]
Raqqa
Security sources say the PYD security captured 3 terrorists and confiscated large quantities of C4 explosives, in addition to other weapons near Tal Abyad. [BasNews]
Northwest (Aleppo, Idlib)
Azaz
A local activist says Turkey-supported opposition groups, supported by Turkish planes and artillery, captured Turkman Bareh and Aziziyeh after heavy battles, killing more than 30 Daesh terrorists. Coalition planes launched several airstrikes on Daesh in the area. In one of these airstrikes more than eight civilians were killed in Tal Tanah village. Opposition groups also captured the Al-U’la farms near Akhtarin. [ARA] [Qasioun]
Later on, an opposition group commander says the opposition withdrew from Turkman Bareh. [ARA] [Qasioun]
Local sources say twenty people were killed in the Coalition airstrikes on the Kurdish village of Tal Tanah. [BasNews]
The Sultan Murad, a Turkey backed Syrian group, says its military commander was killed in the battles in Turkman Bareh. [EnabBaladi]
The YPG issued a statement refuting Turkey backed opposition groups that said that the YPG attacked them in Kaljibrin village in Azaz. It also says opposition groups are attacking YPG positions in the area with mortars and heavy artillery. [Hawar]
An opposition group commander says the opposition, supported by the Turkish Army, captured Ka’ibah village, killing several Daesh terrorists and destroying a military vehicle. [ARA]
He also says opposition groups stopped Daesh attack on Janahat village east of Azaz, killing or wounding several Daesh terrorists and forcing the rest to flee. [ARA]
Daesh says it killed three opposition fighters and destroyed a heavy machine gun with an IED in Ka’ibah village. [A3maq]
Daesh says several opposition fighters were killed or wounded when their vehicle fell in a minefield near Ghazal village. [JustPaste]
Afrin
An Asayesh official says 1,800 civilians from northern Aleppo areas arrived in Afrin, escaping the battles between Turkey-backed opposition groups and Daesh (video). [Hawar]
A local official says a YPG weapons and ammunition storehouse exploded south of Kobane without causing human casualties. The source says the reason for the explosion is unknown yet. [BasNews]
Other Northwest Syria
A local activist says nine civilians were killed, and tens wounded in Russian airstrikes in west Aleppo, and five killed and fifteen wounded in east Aleppo. Opposition groups responded by shelling and rocketing the Shia towns of Nabul and Zahra. [ARA]
Central and West (Homs, Hama, etc.)
Several Daesh terrorists were killed or wounded, and several machine gun mounted vehicles destroyed, in airstrikes near the Sha’er Oilfield. [SyriaNow]
East (Deir Ez-Zor)
The SOHR says Daesh raided an internet cafe in Albu Kamal, and arrested one civilian. It also says a woman who was killed by an airstrike on Al-Muhasan town in Deir Ez-Zor. [SyriaHR]
Daesh issues a video of targeting a government building in Hawijat Saqar in Deir Ez-Zor with B10 rockets. [A3maq]
Daesh says its snipers killed three Syrian soldiers at a security barrier in Jab Al-Hassan east of Homs. [A3maq]
South (Rif Damashq, Suwayda, Daraa, etc.)
A local activist says the Daesh affiliate, Khaled Army, attacked opposition groups in Ain Dhikr town in the Yarmouk Basin. He says heavy battles erupted in the area and both sides suffered casualties. [ARA]
A local activist says Daesh launched a major attack on opposition groups in the Eastern Mountain area in East Qalamoun. He says Nusra Front and its allied groups stopped the attack, killing or wounding more than 20 Daesh terrorists, including a military commander, and destroying a BMP armored vehicle and 2 heavy machine guns. [ARA]
OTHER MIDDLE EAST/NORTH AFRICA REPORTS
North Africa
Egypt
Security forces killed 9 ABM terrorists in heavy battles in the Dahisha area south of Arish. [VetoGate]
A security source says a 54-year-old man was shot and killed by armed men in Rafah. [VetoGate]
Local sources say security blew up an empty building that was used by the terrorists to monitor the movement of security forces in east Sheikh Zuweid. [ElWatan]
Daesh publishes photos of executing a “spy” in North Sinai. Daesh issued a statement threatening anyone who cooperates with security forces. [DawaAlhaq]
Libya
Northeast
A medical source says three civilians were killed and sixteen wounded when shells fell on the Sidi Hussein area in Benghazi center. [AfriGate]
Daesh says two women and five children were killed by a “Emirati” airstrike on the Qanfouda area, west of Benghazi. [A3maq]
Central coast
A Misrata Hospital source says twelve GNA soldiers were killed and sixty-four wounded in battles on Sunday and Monday. [Libya24]
The GNA military spokesman says his troops are surrounding Daesh in its last remaining areas in Sirte. He also says his troops killed 8 Daesh terrorists and captured a vehicle loaded with ammunition in the Sawawa area, east of Sirte. GNA troops also captured 5 Daesh terrorists in Hay 3. [Wasat]
Other countries
Lebanon
The Lebanese National News Agency says battles erupted between Nusra and Daesh in the Arsal area. It says that several terrorists were killed or wounded in the battles. [ARA]
Daesh says it stopped a Nusra attack in the Arsal area, killing or wounding several fighters and forcing the rest to flee. [Top4Top]
SOCIAL MEDIA
The Nobel Peace Prize announcement is due this week and supporters of nominee Nadia Murad, an Iraqi Yazidi woman who has been UN Goodwill Ambassador after escaping from being held as a Daesh slave, have been tweeting with the hashtag #Nobel4Nadia and a similar hashtag (in Arabic: “Nobel speaks Iraqi”) [Twitter] to campaign for her to receive the honor. See this tweet which says in Arabic “Our hearts are with you.” [Twitter]
Video shows Iraqi troops cleaning up Daesh bodies and explosives from the battlefield in Qayara. [Mawsleya]
Video of construction of a new displaced persons camp in Daquq, southwest Kirkuk governorate. [YallaIq]
DAESH MEDIA
Daesh audio newsletter for today [Bayan]
