October 5, 2016
Displaced Families Returning to Qayara (Rudaw)
Today’s Major Developments
Biden makes an urgent call to Barzani. […]
Turkish leaders keep stoking the intervention talk as Iraq protests. […]
Tribal PMF leader warns that Daesh has infiltrated central Anbar police, army units. […]
“Special force” frees 27 Peshmerga from Daesh prison in Mosul. […]
Coalition airstrike on north Mosul hospital alleged to have killed mostly civilians. […]
Daesh executes 14 more civilians in Mosul. […]
NMF separatist units reported near Qayara, after anti-Daesh US airstrikes reportedly killed some of them. […]
Turkey-supported opposition groups close in on Mare’ in Syria. […]
US commando killed in Afghanistan operation. […]
REPORTS FROM IRAQ
NATIONAL NEWS
The White House issued a statement saying that Vice President Biden spoke Wednesday with KRG President Masoud Barzani. The statement reported vaguely that the Vice President thanked Barzani for his leadership and continued cooperation with Prime Minister Abadi and the Iraqi government to defeat Daesh and ensure lasting stability in Iraq. Both stressed the urgency of sustaining momentum for the liberation of Mosul and other Daesh-held territories, and the importance of ensuring that all military operations in Iraq respect Iraq’s territorial integrity and sovereignty. Both leaders reaffirmed their commitment to the ongoing strategic partnership between the United States and Iraq. [WhiteHouse]
Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmus said on Wednesday Turkey’s military presence in Iraq is intended for stability at a time when the country is deeply divided and that Turkey does not aim to become an occupying force.
He also says Turkish forces are at Iraq’s Bashiqa camp at the request of Iraqi Kurdish President Masoud Barzani, to train the local forces. “Turkey will not allow this to become a matter of debate,” he told reporters. [Reuters]
DaeshDaily comment. The first statement by this US-educated leader could be taken as reassuring about Turkey’s intentions. The second is as arrogant as it is discouraging, suggesting that Turkey doesn’t even want Iraq to debate Turkey’s interference.
It’s sometimes difficult to sift through statements for their real meaning. We suggest seeing these two stories together. Biden’s initiative is probably more about Turkey than about the KRG. Otherwise, why get into a high-profile conversation to reaffirm points that are already agreed. The likely purpose is to detach Barzani from the crisis, giving the Turks less cover for their scheming. Notice from the Deputy PM’s statement that he is using Barzani as the cover for the Turkish troops in Bashiqa, notwithstanding that Bashiqa is not even part of the KRG.
Hopefully the White House will now extend its crisis diplomacy on Mosul a little farther to the north.
A Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesman says the Ministry summoned the Turkish ambassador in Baghdad to protest what it said were “provocative” comments made in Ankara about keeping Turkish troops in northern Iraq. [Reuters]
The Turkish Minister of Foreign Affairs says the Iraqi COR resolution against the Turkish military presence in Bashiqa “doesn’t show good intentions and doesn’t represent all Iraqi people”. [Anadolu]
DaeshDaily comment. The CoR resolution passed unanimously. And as far as we know, all Iraqi people are represented in the CoR, other than Daesh maybe.
The former governor of Ninewa, Atheel Al-Nujaifi, tells Reuters “The biggest fear is that Iraq will break apart if they don’t control (the Mosul battle) in a wise manner and they don’t give the Arab Sunnis real authority,” [Reuters] [Also see his Facebook post under Social Media below.]
DaeshDaily comment. This statement can also be regarded as a threat.
In a meeting with the Kirkuk Governor, the UK Ambassador to Iraq, Frank Baker, says the UK provided 140 million dollars worth of aid to Iraq to fight Daesh. He also says the UK doesn’t have the right to intervene on issues about the Turkish troops in Iraq. [Mada] [Sumaria]
DaeshDaily comment. We suspect the validity of the second part of the report. Turkey is a NATO partner of the UK as well as the US, and is threatening NATO interests in Iraq.
Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg says NATO will not be part of combat operations in Mosul. He says “What NATO is doing is that we are training forces and we will do more of that because we believe that in the long run it is better that local forces, Iraqi forces, are able to fight (Daesh) themselves.” [NATO]
DaeshDaily comment. Ask the Secretary General whether his statement includes Turkey.
The Czech Republic says it will send a medical team and additional military advisors to support Iraq in the war against Daesh. The medical team of 17 members will be sent to an American base near Mosul. [Mada]
The Coalition says it conducted 14 airstrikes on Daesh targets in Iraq, in or near Mosul (6), Qayara (2), and Kasik (1); and Ramadi (3), and Hit (2). [InherentResolve]
BAGHDAD
Security-related incidents reported
North (Tarmiya, Taji, etc.)
An MoI source says two people were killed and eight wounded when an IED exploded near an aluminum factory in Rashidiya. [Mada]
Daesh says it assassinated an Iraqi police officer in the Tarmiya area. [A3maq]
Northeast (Adhamiya, etc.)
A security source says a civilian was killed when armed men shot at him near his house in Suleikh. [Maalomah]
Iraqi Army 45th brigade found IEDs, explosives vests, and other explosives in northeast Baghdad. [MoD Website]
Southeast (Mada’in, etc.)
An MoI source says three people were killed and five wounded when an IED exploded near a busy market in Mada’in. [Mada]
South (Dora, Yusufiyah, Mahmudiya, etc.)
An MoI source says two people were killed and eight wounded when an IED exploded near a market in Mahmudiya. [Mada]
West (Ghazaliya, Abu Ghraib, etc.)
An MoI source says a PMF fighter was killed and four wounded when an IED exploded at their vehicle in Abu Ghraib. [Mada]
Total Baghdad incidents reported: 7 (Includes only incidents reported)
ANBAR
Falluja
Iraqi forces found an explosives cache in Albu Saba village in Qarma. [MoD Website]
Ramadi
The IAA killed 5 Daesh terrorists and destroyed 2 vehicles, 2 motorcycles, a hideout, an oil tanker truck, and a network of tunnels in the Albu Ali Al-Jassem area. [MoD Website]
Hit/Haditha
A Tribal PMF commander says Daesh has infiltrated security forces, especially the local police, and many Daesh members have joined the Army or the Police. [BasNews]
The Anbar Operations Commander says Iraqi forces killed 17 Daesh terrorists and destroyed 5 tunnels, 3 vehicle bombs, a guesthouse, and a communications center, and confiscated large quantities of weapons and ammunition while clearing the Tarabsha area in Jazeera Ramadi. He says Iraqi forces are clearing the Albu Assaf, Albu Ali Al-Jassem, and Tarabsha areas in Jazeera Ramadi in order to allow police and tribal fighters to hold the ground. [BasNews]
The Jazeera Operations Commander says Coalition planes targeted a Daesh headquarters in Hay Al-Bakr, killing 3 terrorists and destroying 2 machine gun mounted vehicles, a truck loaded with explosives, and 3 mortars. [Mada]
Rutba/Western Anbar
Daesh says it killed twelve Iraqi servicemen in an attack on a barracks on the Kilo 160 road. [A3maq]
Here Daesh says it destroyed a Humvee and captured another one in addition to weapons. [A3maq]
SALAHUDDIN
Shirqat
A Salahuddin Police source says a 25-year-old man drowned while trying to cross the Tigris during his escape from a Daesh controlled area in east of Shirqat. [Mada]
Tikrit
A security source says an EOD member was killed and another wounded when an IED they were trying to defuse exploded on them in the Dayoum area west of Tikrit. [Mada]
Samarra
The IFP found an explosives cache in west Jazeera Samarra. [MoD Website]
DIYALA
A member of the Security Committee in the Diyala Provincial Council says Iraqi forces conducted a military operation in 4 areas: south Buhriz, south Balad Ruz, north Muqdadiya, and Himrin Hills, and captured 3 explosives and ammunition caches, in addition to a Daesh vehicle. [Sumaria]
Baquba/southeast Diyala
A security source says local police defused a vehicle bomb near a market in Al-Khalis city. [Maalomah]
Northern Diyala (Kifri, Khanaqin, etc.)
The Diyala Police Chief says his troops launched a campaign to secure the areas near Salahuddin and to prevent Daesh from conducting attacks during the month of Ashura. [Mada]
A National Security Service source says one of their NSS units captured a dangerous terrorist in the Himrin Mountains area. [Sumaria]
KIRKUK
Kirkuk
A security source says a joint Security unit captured a Daesh suicide terrorist in Hay Al-Qadisiya in east Kirkuk. He informed them about 3 other suicide bombers hiding in Hay Al-Wasiti who were planning to attack Shia religious ceremonies and government buildings. The source says the unit surrounded the house and clashed with the terrorists who blew themselves up, killing the first suicide bomber and wounding 3 security members. [Mada]
The Kirkuk Asayesh says it captured 6 Daesh fighters in Kirkuk city. He says one of the captured, a 16-year-old boy, said he was raped the first night he joined Daesh. [Mada]
Hawija
A security source says the Daesh military commander of Hawija and another terrorist were killed when an explosives vest accidentally detonated in their vehicle in Hawija city. [Sumaria]
Southwest
A Peshmerga commander says his troops stopped a Daesh attack on Atshana village in Daquq District, wounding several terrorists. He also says two Peshmerga fighters were wounded in the attack. [Rudaw]
NINEWA
Mosul
Mosul campaign
An unidentified “special force” stormed a secret Daesh prison inside Mosul to free 27 Peshmerga prisoners from inside and moved them to a safe location, according to “well-placed sources in Ninewa.” The raiding party reportedly killed all Daesh guards at the prison, reportedly located in one of the houses seized from Christians in Mosul. Daesh reacted to the raid with house-to-house searches in an attempt to find the freed prisoners, who included Peshmerga officers, the sources said. [Karemlash]
There are two contradictory reports about an airstrike that reportedly destroyed a neurological hospital in Mosul’s northern Rashidiya neighborhood. According to Mawsleya TV, sources said a Coalition plane destroyed the hospital completely, killing a number of Daesh members as well as killing and injuring civilian victims. However according to a Rudaw report, a local source said there were no Daesh members known to be in the hospital in the time and rescuers were attempting to search the rubble for civilian victims. Rudaw’s “local source” does not mention the affiliation of the warplanes that carried out the reported strike although the article’s headline points to the Coalition. [Mawsleya] [Rudaw]
DaeshDaily comment. The truth of this incident will have to be determined from later reports. First of all, Daesh has put many of its military headquarters in hospital facilities. Second, Daesh propaganda routinely claims that Coalition airstrikes miss their target, kill no Daesh members, and kill only innocent civilians. Third, we have learned that “local source” sometimes means a Daesh source.
Daesh fighters in Mosul number between 2,000 and 4,000, according to remarks by the chairman of the Ninewa Provincial Council security committee Muhammad Al-Bayati. He said that Daesh is so outnumbered that the battle for Mosul will be “easy and simple.” Al-Bayati said he expected a “popular intifada” to erupt when troops reached the walls of Mosul. [Karemlash]
A local source says after Prime Minister Abadi’s speech to the people of Mosul yesterday, Daesh deployed its terrorists heavily in the city. The source also says Daesh, through its security points, threatened people with their lives if they listened to the new Iraqi radio station. [Sumaria]
Daesh executed 14 civilians by drowning them in a submerged cage in the Faisaliya area of central Mosul on Wednesday evening, local sources say. The victims were accused of collaborating with the Iraqi government and Peshmerga. [Sumaria]
The Chairman of the Sunni religious endowment (waqf), Abdul Latif Al-Hmyem, has directed his organization to form a “crisis cell” to support the anticipated displaced civilians from the upcoming fighting in Mosul. [Maalomah]
The Directorate of Mines Affairs in the Iraqi Ministry of Health and Environment has been in talks with the UN to develop a work plan for clearing IEDs and other explosives from Mosul after it is recaptured from Daesh. [AYN]
Coalition planes struck Daesh police vehicles in precision strikes in Yarmouk and the 17 Tamouz neighborhood in central Mosul, killing six Daesh members including a commander. [BasNews]
Conditions in Mosul
Daesh stunned its followers by spreading the idea of “What if the Caliph were killed in an airstrike or by gunfire, or by an incurable disease?,” according to local sources who said Daesh preachers in the mosques of Mosul and its leaders in its religious forums in the city raised these questions and asked what this would mean for the future of the Daesh “caliphate.” The sources say these ideas have not been raised in the past two years of Daesh rule. The matter has sparked rumors about the possible death of Daesh “caliph” Awwad Baghdadi as he seems to be all but besieged in Mosul and Daesh is expected to lose control of the city when operations commence to recapture it, the sources say. [Sumaria]
DaeshDaily comment. It sounds like they are preparing people for bad news. If he were actually besieged, however, what are the chances that he couldn’t get out if he wanted to? Then there is the alternate theory, based on the well-known fact that you can’t die twice.
Daesh arrested 100 people in the markets in Bab Al-Tob, Bab Al-Saray, and Al-Sarjakhana in central Mosul, according to a report citing “PMF intelligence.” Another report citing the same source says that Daesh hisbah agents have imposed an on-the-spot fine of 35,000 Iraqi Dinars (25 USD) in the same markets. [PressIraq] [PressIraq]
Daesh’s so-called “Islamic Police” have been stopping and arresting drivers of red cars in Mosul, according to local sources. Some were reportedly beaten for resisting arrest. Reasons for the arrests were not known. [Sumaria]
Daesh gunmen raided the Mosul General Hospital and abducted doctors, taking them to an unknown location to treat Daesh members who have been wounded in fighting or in airstrikes, according to Ninewa MP Muhammad Abd Rabboh. [BasNews]
Daesh members have taken up residence in homes in Mosul left behind by their owners, according to sources in the city. Daesh members, in the absence of the owners, simply break down the doors of the houses to enter, the sources say. [Mawsleya]
Daesh has opened “media points” in Mosul showing videos of its crimes and executions in order to frighten the people of Mosul into compliance, local sources say. [Mawsleya]
Daesh has recently opened schools in Mosul but parents in the city are reluctant to send their children to them. Only Daesh-affiliated families appear to be sending their children to the schools, local sources said. [Mawsleya]
DaeshDaily comment. This seems to contradict a story we printed last week that all the teachers were laid off for lack of money. We can’t be sure, however. It is known, for example, that Daesh has started private schools. It is noteworthy too that Daesh hasn’t promoted the start of the school year as it has in the past.
Pensioners received their payments today from the Iraqi government and many were seen in the markets stocking up on supplies in advance of the anticipated operations to eject Daesh from Mosul. Retirees are now among the few civilian elements in Mosul to receive a regular salary. [Mawsleya]
Nineveh Plain
Daesh sent reinforcements to Bashiqa east of Mosul to fortify its positions in advance of the anticipated Mosul operations, sources said. However, sources said that Daesh is fortifying the eastern entrances of Mosul with concrete blocks, indicating that Daesh is preparing for the loss of Bashiqa in the campaign. [Mawsleya]
Daesh has sent members dressed in civilian garb to monitor residents’ activity in Kokajli and Intisar east of Mosul in the event of anti-Daesh operations there. [Mawsleya]
Daesh says it targeted Peshmerga positions with 54 mortars in different locations near the Aski Mosul area. [JustPaste]
Qayara/Makhmur
The Ninewa Operations Commander says Iraqi forces stopped a Daesh attack on Kharayeb Jabur, in the Haj Ali area, killing 8 Daesh terrorists, including 3 suicide bombers. However, nine Iraqi soldiers were killed. [BasNews] It also says Coalition planes targeted Daesh military positions near the village, killing 10 terrorists. [Mada]
Daesh says it killed 15 Iraqi soldiers and destroyed 7 vehicles, a barracks, and a weapons storehouse in the attack. Daesh also says all of its terrorists returned safely. Daesh says Coalition planes mistakenly bombed Iraqi forces, killing nineteen fighters and wounding seven. [DawaAlhaq]
An NMF spokesman close to Atheel Nujaifi says Coalition planes targeted an NMF position in the Haj Ali area, killing twenty-one fighters and wounding five. He asks the Coalition and the Ninewa Governorate to instantly begin an investigation. [Sumaria]
A PUK official says 4 Daesh terrorists dressed as women were approaching the NMF positions as the Coalition launched the attack. [ROJ]
The Coalition says it conducted strikes on a building being used by Daesh after the terrorists fired at Iraqi security forces in the vicinity of Kharayeb Jabur, a village south of Mosul, Iraq, Oct. 5, 2016.
It also says the strikes were coordinated by, with and through the Government of Iraq in support of Iraqi security forces who requested the strike.
It says initial battle damage assessment reports indicated that one building was destroyed and eight enemy fighters were killed.
“We are aware of the reports that Sunni tribal fighters were in the building that was struck and we are taking those reports seriously,” said a Combined Joint Forces Land Component Command – Operation Inherent Resolve spokesperson. “As a result, both the Coalition and the ISF are conducting a joint investigation on this incident.” [CENTCOM]
Daesh Daily comment. Why the NMF units were allowed to show up in the Haj Ali area is a good question that someone in authority should answer.
Sputnik News Arabic has published a list purporting to show the names of 18 people killed in the Coalition airstrike. [Ghadeer] [Sputnik]
Unidentified warplanes reportedly struck a Daesh position in the village of Lazaga, next to Al-Hawd, resulting in unspecified Daesh casualties and destruction of Daesh storehouses. [PressIraq]
Residents of the village of Ihjala in Qayara subdistrict have called for the liberation of the neighboring villages of Qanus and Sharia, saying Daesh launches deadly mortar attacks from its positions in the latter two villages on Ihjala. [Mawsleya]
Sumaria says 140 displaced families from Haj Ali villages and other areas returned to their houses from Kirkuk. [Sumaria]
Northwest (Tal Afar, Sinjar)
Daesh issues a video of a Peshmerga drone it shot down in Qara Kharab village. [A3maq]
Daesh says it targeted Peshmerga positions in the Sinjar area with 36 mortars. [JustPaste]
SOUTHERN IRAQ
Babel
A security source says the Babel Police captured a person wanted on terrorism charges in Haswa, north of Hilla. [Mada]
REPORTS FROM SYRIA
The pro-opposition Syrian Network for Human Rights says 498 civilians including 161 children and 64 women were killed in Syria during the month of September. It says most of the attacks on civilians were committed by the Syrian Army and Russian planes. [ZamanAlWasl]
Turkish deputy prime minister Numan Kurtulmus says the Euphrates Shield Operation aims at keeping the unity of Syria, preventing Daesh attacks, and preventing the PYD from creating a route between Afrin and Kobane. [SotKurdistan]
The Coalition says it conducted 14 airstrikes on Daesh targets in Syria, on or near Mare’ (5), Ain Eissa (1) and Shaddadi (2), and Deir Ez-Zor (2) and Albu Kamal (4). [InherentResolve]
Northeast (Hasaka, Raqqa)
Hasaka
The Turkish Army targeted Tal Kaif town east of Amuda with midsized weapons. No casualties were reported. [Hawar]
Raqqa
Daesh executed a young man in Raqqa city after accusing him of ridda (leaving Islam). Daesh had arrested the man 2 months ago.
The Coalition launched extensive airstrikes in the early morning on Wednesday near the Division 17 camp, north of Raqqa. [Qasioun]
DaeshDaily comment. In Daesh ideology, ridda just means opposing Daesh, and has nothing to do with abandoning Islam.
Northwest (Aleppo, Idlib)
Al-Bab
The Turkish armed forces have announced that one Turkish soldier was killed and three injured in a battle to repel Daesh forces that were trying to infiltrate an FSA-controlled location east of Al-Ra’i named in the report as ‘Ziyara’. They also say 18 Daesh fighters were reported killed in the fighting. [Cumhuriyet] We thank our friend in Turkey for this report
Daesh says 2 of its terrorists sneaked into Turkish Army and opposition groups military position near Ziyara village east of Al-Ra’i and detonated their explosive vests, killing or wounding thirty fighters, including Turkish soldiers. [DawaAlhaq]
A Kurdish activist says Daesh publicly executed four civilians, including a Kurd, in Al-Bab city after accusing them of “ridda” and opposing Daesh. [BasNews]
Azaz
Local sources say Turkish artillery targeted the majority Kurdish villages of Tal Bital and Kafr Kalbin 17 km (10.5 miles) north of Al-Bab with more than 40 shells. Turkey backed opposition groups prevented the people of Ka’ibah village from returning to their houses. [Hawar]
An opposition group commander says opposition groups, supported by the Turkish Army, launched a major attack from several sides, north of Akhtarin, and captured 2 villages, killing or wounding several Daesh terrorists. [ARA]
By capturing the two villages, the opposition is only 3 villages away from Mare’. Opposition groups captured the Daesh officer of vehicle bombs near Turkman Bareh. [Qasioun]
A video of the opposition groups in the area [Qasioun]
Daesh says it conducted a suicide attack on opposition groups in Aziziyeh village southwest of Al-Ra’i after the opposition entered the village. [A3maq]
Daesh says it recaptured Turkman Bareh village southwest of Al-Ra’i. [A3maq]
Daesh issues a video of Turkish rockets and shells falling on “civilian” houses in Akhtarin. [A3maq]
Afrin
The PYD backed Hawar says the Turkish Army brought military reinforcements, including 3 tanks near Maydan Akbis village in Rajo subdistrict in Afrin. [Hawar]
Manbij
A media source says four children were killed by a Daesh landmine in Dadat village north of Manbij. So far, 246 people, including 50 women and 89 children have been killed or wounded by Daesh land mines in the Manbij area. [Dorar]
Daesh says it targeted “PKK” fighters in Um Tamakh village southwest of Manbij with 8 mortars. Daesh also says it targeted the “PKK” with 4 SPG-9 rockets near Maqta’ Hajar Kabir village south of Manbij. [JustPaste]
Daesh says it killed or wounded six “PKK” fighters by 2 IEDs between Tal Hudhan and Atshana south of Manbij. [A3maq]
Daesh publishes 2 photos of targeting “PKK” positions in Bilan village south of Manbij. [DawaAlhaq]
Other Northwest Syria
A local activist says Russian planes targeted several areas west of Aleppo, killing ten civilians and wounding twenty, including women and children, and destroying the largest medicine factory in Syria. [ARA]
The Syrian military says it decided to decrease the number of airstrikes and artillery attacks on east Aleppo to “improve the humanitarian condition of the civilians” and to help the people who want to leave toward secured areas. [EnabBaladi]
Central and West (Homs, Hama, etc.)
Daesh publishes photos of its terrorists on the road between Ithariya and Raqqa. [DawaAlhaq]
Daesh publishes photos of executing an opposition fighter and a Syrian soldier in Homs. [DawaAlhaq]
Daesh publishes photos of battles with the Syrian Army in the Huwaisis area east of Homs. [DawaAlhaq]
East (Deir Ez-Zor)
A local journalist says Daesh executed two of its security members in 2 villages east of Deir Ez-Zor without giving any reasons. Daesh had executed 6 of its local members in Masrab village on Tuesday, after accusing them of “blackmailing and provoking people” (against Daesh). [ARA] [ARA]
A local activist says Daesh intensified its security procedures, making several changes to its command structure in Albu Kamal after 2 of its officials, an Iraqi and a Saudi, defected recently. [ARA]
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says battles continued between Daesh and Syrian troops near the Deir Ez-Zor military airport. [SyriaHR]
The SOHR says Daesh executed an engineering college student in Shamitiya town west of Deir Ez-Zor after accusing him of robbery. [SyriaHR]
The SOHR says Daesh is destroying the pulpits of many mosques in Deir Ez-Zor Governorate after claiming they don’t follow Islamic traditions. [SyriaHR]
DaeshDaily comment. When Daesh destroyed Shia and Sufi mosques and Christian churches, that was just the start. Everything must be according to the desert-borne Wahhabism. The civilizations, and even Islamic cultures, of Iraq and Syria represent a mortal enemy for Daesh.
South (Rif Damashq, Suwayda, Daraa, etc.)
The Saudi-affiliated Jaish Al-Islam militia says its media official was killed in the battles with Daesh in East Qalamoun. [ARA]
OTHER MIDDLE EAST/NORTH AFRICA REPORTS
North Africa
Egypt
A security source says a civilian was killed and two others wounded when an IED exploded in Hay Al-Tarabin, near Sheikh Zuweid police station. [ElWatan]
An electricity company vehicle was destroyed by an IED near Qari’a village in Central Sinai, wounding the driver. This is the second attack on an electricity vehicle in the past week. [VetoGate]
The body of a civilian was found beheaded in the Husseiniya area in Rafah. The man was kidnapped by terrorists 2 days ago. [ElWatan]
Libya
Northeast
Military sources say the number of casualties from the rockets that fell in downtown Benghazi yesterday increased to six dead and sixteen wounded. The sources say the source of the shells was near Qanfouda, west of Benghazi. [Libya24]
Central coast
The spokesman of the Misrata Military Council says the American airstrikes on Sirte are inaccurate and useless and they don’t aim at liberating the city. He says the US has technologies that can liberate Sirte within hours. [Libya24]
Tunisia
The Tunisian National Security Service captured a Daesh member in the Sidi Hussein area, according to a statement from the Ministry of Interior. [Tunisien]
Other countries
Afghanistan
The U.S. military says a U.S. commando has been killed in Afghanistan after being hit by a roadside bomb while on patrol with Afghan forces in a northeastern province bordering Pakistan.
U.S. forces have been conducting counter-terror operations with Afghan troops against Daesh in Achin, Nangarhar province. The U.S. military says the commando, whose name was not released, died from wounds sustained when the patrol triggered an improvised explosive device. [AP]
Daesh’s A3maq says, according to a source, Daesh killed an American soldier and three Afghani soldiers with an IED in Achin in Nangarhar yesterday. [A3maq]
As many as 56 Daesh members were killed in the latest operations conducted in Eastern Nangarhar province, local officials said Tuesday.
The provincial police commandment in a statement said the militants were killed as a result of the joint operations conducted with the US in Achin district. [KabulTribiune]
SOCIAL MEDIA
Former Ninewa Governor Atheel Al-Nujaifi writes on his Facebook page that the agreed decision of Baghdad, Erbil, and the Coalition is that PMFs will not participate in the battle for Mosul, despite reports circulating in the media that may suggest otherwise. [Facebook]
Videos of the Day
A video of a Daesh terrorists captured in Saidiya. The video also shows the terrorist’s vehicle loaded with explosives vests. [MoD]
A video of Iraqi forces destroying a massive Daesh vehicle bomb in the Ramadi area [YouTube]
A video of Rapid Intervention Units in a close battle with Daesh [YouTube]
A video of a Daesh Syrian terrorists captured by Iraqi forces in Anbar [MoD]
A video of a Coalition airstrike destroying a Daesh vehicle bomb facility and chemical munitions plant near Al-Qa’im on September 26th. [CJTF]
A video of Ninewa governorate officials distributing relief aid to IDPs in Dahuk Governorate. [Mawsleya]
A video from Qayara as the deputy commander of Ninewa Operations visits the area. [Mawsleya]
A video of Moroccan security units arresting a cell of Daesh female terrorists [2M]
DAESH MEDIA
Daesh publishes a new issue of Rumiyah magazine in different languages. [JustPaste]
