October 24, 2016
Ali Raisan (Sumaria)
Today’s Major Developments
Turkey says it has participated in Mosul campaign. JOC says it hasn’t. [..]
Daesh makes major attack on Rutba. [..]
Kirkuk situation under control after Daesh attack. 74 Daesh fighters killed. [..]
Ninewa campaign has captured 77 villages so far. [..]
Daesh sends Syrian boys to fight in Mosul; 31 die. [..]
Coalition, Iraqi airstrikes blast several locations in Mosul. [..]
Al-Sumaria reporter killed in Shura. [..]
IFP-led troops make steady progress in Shura, moving toward Hammam Al-Alil as Daesh fighters bail out. [..]
IAA air attack foils mass execution by Daesh, saves 150 lives. [..]
CTS, Iraqi Army, Peshmerga units surround city of Bashiqa just outside Mosul. [..]
Daesh launches large attack on Peshmerga in Sinjar. [..]
Turks, supporting militias preparing to attack strategic Al-Bab, Syria. [..]
Egyptian air attack kills 70 Daesh-affiliated militants, wounds 80 in Sinai. [..]
Daesh attacks police college in Quetta, Pakistan, kills 95 people. [..]
REPORTS FROM IRAQ
NATIONAL NEWS
Prime Minister Abadi received the Swedish Prime Minister, Stefan Löfven, according to a statement from Abadi’s office. Löfven said Sweden will increase the number of its military personnel in Iraq from 35 to 70. [Mada]
Abadi says in the meeting with his Swedish counterpart that the Turkish statement that they are participating in the Ninewa battles is not true. [Sumaria]
The Joint Operations Command (JOC) refuted media reports that Turkey’s has participated in the Ninewa battle. [ARA]
The Turkish Minister of Foreign Affairs says the Turkish Military is participating, in many ways. He says the Turkish military trained Peshmerga and NMF units, who are participating in the battles, and that Turkish planes are part of the Coalition. He also says the Turkish troops in Bashiqa have killed 700 Daesh terrorists so far, in addition to 17 since the Ninewa battles started. [TurkPress]
DaeshDaily comment. Apparently the Turks are creating and keeping their own records. Al-Jazeera, generally negative toward the Iraqi government, reported last week that Turkish planes bombed Mosul.
The Minister also says Turkey will not allow the PKK to have a base in Sinjar. He says Sinjar will not be another of the Qandil Mountains. [Rudaw]
The Coalition says it conducted 10 airstrikes on Daesh targets in Iraq, on or near Mosul (6) and Sultan Abdullah (1) in Ninewa; Bashir (1) in Kirkuk; and Rawa (1) and Rutba (1) in Anbar. [InherentResolve]
BAGHDAD
Security-related incidents reported
North (Tarmiya, Taji, etc.)
Iraqi Army 22nd brigade destroyed 4 Daesh guesthouses and defused 10 IEDs in the Hora area. [BOC Facebook Page]
Iraqi Army 59th brigade found an explosives cache in the Dhabitya area. [BOC Facebook Page]
Northeast (Adhamiya, etc.)
An MoI source says an employee of the General Inspector Office, and the Ministry of Health was killed when a sticky IED exploded under his civilian vehicle in Adhamiya. [Mada]
An MoI source says the police captured a gang that killed a money exchange owner in Binouk. The gang stole $150,000 from the victim. [Mada]
Southeast (Mada’in, etc.)
Iraqi Army 42nd brigade found 3 rockets in the Tuwaitha area. [BOC Facebook Page]
South (Dora, Yusufiyah, Mahmudiya, etc.)
Iraqi Army 55th brigade defused an IED and found an explosives cache in the Sheeth area. [BOC Facebook Page]
Iraqi Army 23rd brigade defused 4 IEDs and found other explosives in the Tajrat area. [BOC Facebook Page]
Southwest (Rasheed, etc.)
An MoI source says one person was killed and eight wounded when an IED exploded in a commercial area in Saidiya. [Mada]
An MoI source says two people were killed and six wounded when an IED exploded near a busy restaurant in Bayya’. [Mada]
West (Ghazaliya, Abu Ghraib, etc.)
An MoI source says an MoD captain and his driver were killed when a sticky IED exploded under their vehicle in on the highway in Abu Ghraib. [Mada]
Total Baghdad incidents reported: 10 (Includes only incidents reported)
IED incidents 4
ANBAR
An MoD source says the Directorate of Health in Anbar is issuing death certificates for some Daesh dead members and changing the causes of death to classify them as victims. [Ghad]
DaeshDaily comment. The victims’ families get government compensation.
Rutba/Western Anbar
Security sources say Daesh launched a major attack on Rutba and captured several government buildings and set them on fire. The Deputy Chairman of the Rutba district council says Iraqi units broke into several buildings and houses where Daesh fighters had barricaded themselves, killing 6 terrorists and capturing 4. He also says Iraqi forces, with support from local citizens, also destroyed 3 Daesh sniper positions. [BasNews]
Daesh’s version says it broke into Rutba from different sides and captured “half” of the city. [A3maq] [A3maq]
Daesh says it trapped the “remains” of Iraqi Army units and Sahwa fighters in Rutba city. [A3maq]
Daesh’s version says it conducted a suicide attack in Hay Al-Karabla in Rutba city. [A3maq] Daesh says it killed a Sahwa commander and his bodyguards there. [A3maq] Daesh says that Iraqi soldiers and Sahwa fighters fled. [A3maq]
Here Daesh says a group of its terrorists infiltrated Rutba and then other terrorists attacked Iraqi Army positions around the city from 5 sides. Daesh says its terrorists entered the city, then 2 suicide bombers detonated their vehicle bombs in the Karabla area while others blocked the Kilo 160 road, cutting off access to the city. Daesh says it captured most of the city, killing more than seventy Iraqi soldiers and Sahwa fighters. Daesh says the battles are still ongoing and it is aiming at “clearing” the entire city. [DawaAlhaq]
DaeshDaily comment. We need to redefine the term “captured”. Daesh supporters still believe it “captured” half of Kirkuk, for example.
The Mayor of Rutba says 50 Daesh terrorists attacked Rutba, including snipers and suicide terrorists. He says Iraqi forces killed 9 terrorists and captured 3. [Mada]
A Tribal PMF commander estimated that Iraqi forces killed 30 Daesh terrorists and destroyed 3 vehicle bombs while securing 3 neighborhoods in Rutba. [Mada]
A Tribal PMF commander says Iraqi forces killed 5 Daesh terrorists and destroyed a vehicle bomb in Zaytoun in Rutba. [Mada]
Daesh publishes photos of the attack on Rutba. [DawaAlhaq]
Daesh said on Sunday that it killed or wounded several Iraqi service members in an attack on the Kilo 25 area north of Rutba. [A3maq]
Daesh issues a short video of the attack. [A3maq]
SALAHUDDIN
Shirqat
Daesh said on Saturday it captured an Iraqi soldier near Khanuqa village south of Shirqat. [A3maq]
Daesh says it killed or wounded several PMF fighters and destroyed 2 vehicles with 2 IEDs in the Fatha area. [A3maq]
Daesh publishes photo of an attack on Iraqi forces in the Shirqat area. [DawaAlhaq]
Baiji
Daesh said on Saturday that it shot down an “American” MQ-9 bombing drone in the Thermal Station area. [A3maq]
Daesh said that after shooting down the MQ-9, it shot down an “American” recon drone in the same area. [A3maq]
Tikrit
Daesh says its snipers killed three PMF fighters and wounded three others near the Allas Oilfield. [A3maq]
DIYALA
Baquba/southeast Diyala
A security source says a civilian was killed when an IED exploded near an agriculture area in Hashimiyat, 10 km (6 miles) northwest of Baquba. [Sumaria]
The Diyala Police chief says his troops destroyed 2 Daesh guesthouses, defused 2 IEDs, and found weapons and explosives in a campaign against Daesh sleeper cells in Buhriz. [Mada]
Northern Diyala (Kifri, Khanaqin, etc.)
A PUK official says the Peshmerga killed a Daesh terrorist who was trying sneak into Qara Tapa in the Kifri subdistrict. [ROJ]
KIRKUK
Kirkuk
The Kirkuk Governor says security forces captured several Daesh terrorists, including the leader of the Daesh attack on Kirkuk. He says the leader, an Iraqi terrorist, admitted that 100 terrorists attacked Kirkuk, mostly Iraqis. The Governor says Iraqi forces killed 74 terrorists. [Mada]
A security source says the leader of the Daesh attack on Kirkuk told them that Daesh intends to attack Kirkuk with 300 suicide terrorists. [Mada]
The KRG Security Council said on Sunday that the Daesh terrorists had come from Hawija through areas between Daquq and Bashir and then arrived at the Tareq Company area south of Kirkuk. It says security forces, supported by local volunteers, killed many terrorists and arrested 8. It said that Daesh wanted to capture some areas south of Kirkuk to ease the pressure on its fighters in Mosul. [Mada]
The KRG Security Council says a Daesh commander was killed and 5 people who helped Daesh attack Kirkuk were captured. A security source says 2 Daesh terrorists blew themselves up after being trapped by security units in Kirkuk city center. [Mada]
A local source says a Daesh terrorist blew himself up after being trapped by security forces in east Kirkuk, without causing casualties among security forces. [Mada]
The Deputy Governor of Kirkuk says 170 houses were destroyed in Kirkuk city and 2 villages in Dibis District. The Kirkuk Governor says he doesn’t approve of any demolition or displacement actions in the governorate. [Sumaria]
DaeshDaily comment. This report seems to suggest some Kurdish retaliation against Arabs in Kirkuk in reaction to the Daesh attack on the city and the companion attack in Dibis. This could be an incendiary issue if the story proves out.
There are several reports about revenge actions against Arabs in Kirkuk including kicking displaced families out and demolishing house.
The Chaldean Archbishop of Kirkuk and Suleimaniya saved the lives of seven female college students during the Daesh attack on Kirkuk. The girls were trapped in their dormitory, but the archbishop managed to smuggle them out through the back fence. [ARA]
DaeshDaily comment. The girls are not Christians. Good Iraqi people take care of each other.
The security source says the body of a young man was found strangled near the industrial area southeast of Kirkuk. [Sumaria]
Daesh said on Sunday that the clashes in Kirkuk continued for the third day in a row. [A3maq]
Daesh issues a video of its supporters in Mosul celebrating the “victories” in Kirkuk. [A3maq]
Hawija
A security source says unknown armed men shot and killed a Daesh commander near his house in Hawija. [Maalomah]
Southwest
A Kirkuk Police commander says a joint Peshmerga, Police, and PMF force started a security operation in Daquq on Sunday, and captured 15 people including 2 known Daesh members. He says one policeman was killed and another wounded in the operation. [Rudaw]
NINEWA
The IWMC released a list of 77 villages and local areas captured since the start of the Mosul operation. [Ghad]
772 Daesh members have been killed and 23 others captured since the start of the Mosul operation, the IWMC announced Monday. [PUKMedia]
Pope Francis says the cruelty of the fighting in the Iraqi city of Mosul “makes us cry, leaves us without words.” He told 50,000 people gathered Sunday for the Angelus blessing that he was “pained by the murder in cold blood of numerous sons of this beloved land, among them many children.”
He expressed his closeness to the people of Iraq “in these dramatic hours,” saying “our souls are shaken by the brutal acts of violence that are being committed for too long against innocent citizens, whether Muslims or Christians.” [CatholicHerald]
The Ministry of Displacement and Migration says 3,802 people have left their houses in the Ninewa area since the battles started. [Anadolu]
Mosul
Military developments in Mosul
The Counter Terrorism Service commander says Iraqi forces are 5-6 km away from the eastern edge of Mosul. He says Iraqi forces have met their goals for this stage of the Ninewa liberation campaign. He says Daesh anticipated a long battle in Bartella, making its first defensive stand before Mosul, but the Iraqi forces took the city fast. He says Iraqi forces and Coalition planes destroyed 20 Daesh vehicle bombs.
Ninewa Emergency Police and Tribal PMFs will hold the ground while Counter Terrorism troops attack Mosul. [Sumaria] [AIN]
Daesh executed 40 of its own members who fled the fighting in Bashiqa and nearby areas, a PUK official said. [PUKMedia]
Daesh executed “tens” of captives from 40 families, including women and children, whom it had abducted from villages south of Mosul, a Ninewa police officer said. [BasNews]
An unknown armed group calling itself the “Mosul Falcons” [Suqour Al-Mosul] announced an abduction operation in which a Daesh commander and one of his associates were captured in the Al-Zuhour neighborhood of eastern Mosul. The group has threatened to execute the captives if Daesh executes a certain group of young men it captured two weeks ago in Mosul. [Sumaria]
A large fire broke out in Daesh’s “Soldier’s Bureau” in western Mosul, a local source said. The office had been vacated earlier by Daesh, the source added. There have been several fires in Daesh offices in Mosul, the source said, but it is not clear who has set them. [Sumaria]
Mosul liberation campaign
A local source says Coalition planes targeted Hay Al-Arabi, Hay Al-Shifa’, and Halab Street in Mosul, killing 34 terrorists. [Baghdadia]
Iraqi aircraft killed 12 Daesh members and destroyed 4 vehicles in the Al-Arabi neighborhood in eastern Mosul, the MoD announced. [MoDWebsite]
Heavy aircraft presence was reported in the skies over Mosul on Monday by local sources in the city. [Mawsleya]
A local source says most of Daesh terrorists in the city have withdrawn from the east side of Mosul to the west side after booby-trapping the city bridges. The source also says Daesh established 3 defense lines of vehicle bombs and prepared its Ashbal Al-Khilafa boys to conduct suicide attacks. [Sumaria]
The SOHR says 37 Daesh fighters from Raqqa, including 31 Ashbal Al-Khilafa boys, have been killed in the fighting in the Mosul area. [EnabBaladi]
More than 100 slain Daesh fighters have been brought to Mosul hospitals, according to local sources. [Mawsleya]
Daesh families have been fleeing from the east bank of Mosul to the western bank as Iraqi Joint Forces advance from the east, local sources say. [Mawsleya]
Daesh checkpoints at the gates of Mosul have confiscated the possessions of families that Daesh has captured and brought to Mosul from villages that it has lost, a local source said. The source also said that three elderly persons including a woman and a child had all died at the checkpoints as a result of the harsh conditions they endured after Daesh forced them from their homes to be used as human shields. [Sumaria]
A security source in Diyala says 3 AQI leaders, who were thought to have been killed, are now senior Daesh commanders in Mosul. [Sumaria]
DaeshDaily comment. Daesh usually publishes reports about its dead terrorists. However, some of them later reappear.
Conditions in Mosul
Daesh has turned more than 40 patients, including the aged, out of Mosul Hospital in order to make room for “tens of” its wounded fighters, a Ninewa local source said. The Mosul Hospital has been turned into a “bloodbath” the source said. Most of the Daesh corpses are brought to the Al-Ghabat area of western Mosul for burial, the source said. [Sumaria]
Daesh’s hisbah patrols are in constant fear as they patrol the streets of Mosul local sources say. Some have taken to dressing in military garb and shortening their hair and beards. At the same time there is a fear among hisbah members that they will be sent to the front lines. [Mawsleya]
Daesh members are stealing the contents inside houses in Mosul whose owners fled the city in 2014. [Mawsleya]
Syrian merchants who came to Mosul with Daesh in 2014 or after have fled back to Syria, local sources say. [Mawsleya]
Daesh publishes photos of fighting east of Mosul. [DawaAlhaq]
Daesh publishes photos of “normal life” in Mosul city. [DawaAlhaq]
DaeshDaily comment. Another reassuring message to show that everything is fine in the caliphate and everyone is happy. These messages have multiplied in recent days, so things are obviously getting better and better.
Shura/Hammam Alil
Al-Sumaria TV says one of its cameramen, Ali Raisan, was killed by a Daesh sniper while covering the battles in the Shura area on Saturday. [Sumaria]
DaeshDaily comment. We knew Ali Raisan and feel the loss personally. He was one of the best and most dedicated of war reporters. He worked previously with DaeshDaily staff on different projects.
57 of 84 villages south of Mosul have been captured so far from Daesh, the IFP commander announced. [Forat]
A DaeshDaily war reporter in Ninewa says Iraqi troops are using masks in the Shura and Qayara areas because of the smoke from the Mishraq Sulphur plant that Daesh set on fire. Our reporter himself is suffering minor respiratory issues.
Iraqi troops advanced eight km (5 miles) along the southern front on Monday toward Hammam Al-Alil, according to an officer with the Rapid Response units. Hammam Al-Alil is the subdistrict between Shura and Mosul city. The “first stage” of the Mosul operation has been completed on the southern front, and Iraqi joint forces are now 10 km (6 miles) from Hammam Al-Alil and the Mosul Ring Road, according to an Iraqi intelligence officer with the Rapid Response units on Monday. They have cleared an area stretching 35 km (22 miles) from their base in Qayara, he said, and are now clearing along the Baghdad-Mosul Road at the Al-Shura and Al-Jahsh junctions. [Mada]
A local activist says the IAA foiled a Daesh mass execution of 150 former security personnel in Hammam Al-Alil. He says Daesh had let these people free after they “repented”, but when the attack on Ninewa started Daesh decided to execute them after accusing them of cooperating with Iraqi forces. He says the IAA attacked Daesh and killed Daesh terrorists before they could carry out the executions. [Ghad]
A Ninewa Operations Command source says the IAA killed tens of Daesh terrorists and destroyed their guesthouses in Hammam Al-Alil. [Maalomah]
A Coalition airstrike based on Iraqi intelligence killed 16 Daesh members, including a commander, in the Shura subdistrict, the MoD announced. [Baghdadia]
An IFP commander says Iraqi forces captured 4 villages in Shura subdistrict. He also says Iraqi forces will enter Shura city in the coming hours. [Mada]
Iraqi Army troops and the IFP seized two villages south of Mosul on Monday, and are now advancing toward Munira village, the IWMC announced. [Mada]
The IFP captured the village of Zalhafa northwest of Shura city, according to a “well-placed security source.” The MoD announced that Iraqi troops killed 25 Daesh members in the village. [Mada] [MoDWebsite]
The IFP also captured the village of Khaweita, a security source announced. [Sumaria]
Daesh has set fire to mosques, schools, health centers, and a power station in the Shura subdistrict, sources inside Ninewa Operations said. [Etejah]
The IAA killed “tens” of Daesh members in targeted strikes in Hammam Al-Alil, using precise intelligence information, according to a Ninewa security source. [Waradana]
Daesh made a “mass flight” from Hammam Al-Alil on Monday in the face of advancing Iraqi troops, who captured three villages, according to Maj. Gen. Najm Al-Jubouri, Ninewa Operations Commander. [Waradana]
Iraqi troops freed “hundreds” of civilian Daesh prisoners south of Mosul, the Ninewa Operations commander said. [AIN]
Two Daesh members were captured by Iraqi Rapid Response troops in the village of Tal Taiyiba in Shura, west of Shura city, according to a statement issued by the Rapid Response force. [Forat]
11 Daesh members reportedly surrendered themselves to Iraqi troops south of Mosul. [PressIraq]
Daesh says it killed twenty Iraqi service members and destroyed 3 Humvees and 2 cars in an attack on Isfya village east of Shura. [A3maq]
DaeshDaily comment. Unfortunately for Daesh, DaeshDaily has a video of the battles in the same village. Our reporter, who was there, told us that Daesh was badly defeated there.
Daesh publishes photos of an attack on Iraqi forces south of Shura. [DawaAlhaq]
The Asa’ib Ahl Al-Haq PMF militia (Shia) has announced that it has been assigned to clear Daesh from areas west of Mosul. [Waradana]
Qayara
The IWMC says Coalition warplanes killed 15 Daesh terrorists in airstrikes south and north of Qayara. [Ghad]
The PMF Press says Daesh set 15 oilfields on fire north of Qayara to block the vision of Iraqi pilots. [Buratha]
The UN is reportedly investigating allegations that Iraqi troops confiscated tents and water supplies intended to assist displaced civilians. An anonymous source told the Telegraph that a group claiming to have come from Baghdad as part of the Rapid Response force claimed to need the supplies for the troops. [IPA]
Daesh says it destroyed an Iraqi Army Abrams tank and a T72 tank near the Qayara and Shura intersections south of Mosul. [A3maq]
Daesh issues a video of destroying an Iraqi Abrams tank with a missile near the Qayara Intersection. [A3maq]
Nineveh Plain
The Coalition spokesman, Colonel Jon Dorrian, said on Sunday that Coalition planes have dropped 1,400 shells on Daesh since the military campaign started. [Arabi21]
Video purports to show US Special Forces medical units assisting wounded Peshmerga in the company of Canadian intelligence officers on the battlefield in an unspecified location near Mosul. [BasNews]
Photos of a purported Daesh tunnel in unspecified location near Mosul. [PressIraq]
Daesh issues videos of battles in the Ninewa area. [DawaAlhaq] [DawaAlhaq] [DawaAlhaq] [DawaAlhaq]
Hamdaniya
Iraqi Counter-Terrorism units launched attacks on “several fronts” Monday to capture several villages around Bartella, the force’s spokesman said. Operations are unfolding according to plan and on schedule, he said, praising the cooperation between the various armed forces participating and calling for cooperation from local residents to inform them of any Daesh locations. A Ninewa security source said that a two-pronged “wide-ranging operation” was launched Monday to capture three villages in Bartella subdistrict. “Tens” of Daesh members were killed in the operations, the source said. [Mada] [Mada]
Daesh admitted that the Peshmerga entered the remaining areas of Bartella. However, Daesh says it is still in charge of half of Hamdaniya. [A3maq]
Daesh said on Sunday that it conducted a suicide attack on Iraqi forces in Hamdaniya. [A3maq]
Daesh says it conducted 2 suicide attacks in Tais Kharab and Tob Zawa villages near Bartella. [A3mq] Iraqi forces had earlier moved into the area.
There was a report today that the Bartella assault was originally assigned to the Peshmerga, but that they could not overcome Daesh’s surprisingly stiff resistance within the city. This is why the assault was taken over by the Counter Terrorism Service with Peshmerga support. [Dijla]
The JOC spokesman said Iraqi troops captured the Christian area of Karemlash on Monday, after the IWMC announced that Iraqi Joint Forces advanced into the Karemlash subdistrict earlier in the day. A security cordon is in effect around the area, the IWMC said. [Karemlash] [Mada]
Daesh says it conducted a suicide attack on Iraqi forces in Qaraqosh (Bakhdida), in Hamdaniya. [A3maq]
Daesh says it conducted a suicide attack on Peshmerga and PMF troops near the Shabak village of Tahrawa. [A3maq]
The MoD announced an airstrike targeting Daesh gathering in Kokjali. [MoDWebsite]
Daesh publishes photos of battles near Hamdaniya. [A3maq]
Tel Keif
The JOC says Coalition planes destroyed a Daesh truck loaded with ammunition near Tal Keif, killing 5 terrorists. [Buratha]
Daesh say the Peshmerga have failed to capture Tel Keif after 3 days of heavy battles. [DawaAlhaq]
Daesh says one of its terrorists killed eight PMF fighters near the Free Zone area west of Tel Keif. [A3maq]
Here Daesh says it killed five Peshmerga fighters and wounded others near the Free Zone. [A3maq]
Daesh says it destroyed 2 PMF Humvees near Kafruk village, near Batnaya. [A3maq]
Daesh said on Saturday that American planes mistakenly bombed Peshmerga forces near Batnaya village. [A3maq]
Daesh says American warplanes mistakenly destroyed a Peshmerga Humvee west of Tel Keif. [A3maq]
Daesh said on Sunday that a man and woman were killed and others wounded in a Peshmerga mortar shelling on Tel Keif. [A3maq]
Daesh issues a video of the results of “American” airstrikes on Tel Keif. [A3maq]
Daesh publishes photos of battles north of Mosul. [DawaAlhaq]
Bashiqa
Counter Terrorism troops, Iraqi Army 16th division, and Peshmerga forces have entered Bashiqa city according to PMF sources. [Etejah]
An earlier report from the same media source said Peshmerga fighters had completely surrounded Bashiqa and are preparing to raid the area, a KRG Peshmerga Ministry official said. [Etejah]
Daesh admitted on Sunday that the Peshmerga had surrounded Bashiqa on 3 sides. [A3maq]
Peshmerga fighters also captured three villages northeast of Mosul. [Buratha]
Photos found in mobile phones of a dead Daesh terrorist in the Bashiqa area show children dressing as fighters and some of them wearing explosives vests. [Rudaw]
Northwest (Tal Afar, Sinjar)
Sinjar
Peshmerga fighters repelled a Daesh attack in eastern Sinjar District in Ninewa’s far west, killing 15 Daesh members. Daesh attacked Monday morning with nine suicide vehicle bombs, according to a “well-placed security source.” Seven of the vehicle bombs were destroyed, and 15 Daesh members were killed the fighting, the source said. There were no Peshmerga casualties, the source added. [Mada]
DaeshDaily comment: The reporting does not explain what happened to the other two vehicle bombs.
The Mayor of Sinjar says the Peshmerga, supported by Coalition planes, stopped a Daesh attack on Sinjar, killing tens of terrorists and destroying 8 vehicle bombs. [ARA]
Daesh’s version says it attacked Peshmerga positions south and west of Sinjar city. Daesh says one of its Iraqi suicide terrorists started the attack with a vehicle bomb, then its terrorists followed up. Daesh also says it targeted the Peshmerga with 500 rockets and mortar shells. Daesh says its terrorists killed more than fifty Peshmerga fighters, and destroyed many vehicles, before returning safely. [DawaAlhaq]
In other reports most likely on the same incident, Daesh says it conducted an attack on the Peshmerga in Sinjar city. [A3maq] Daesh says it conducted a suicide attack on a Peshmerga gathering near the western entrance on Sinjar city. [A3maq]
DaeshDaily comment. According to Daesh supporters, and some incubator media mouthpieces, Daesh actually captured Sinjar, and the Peshmerga were fleeing.
Daesh publishes photos of the suicide attack near Sinjar. [DawaAlhaq]
70 Yazidi female captives have been freed since the start of the Mosul Operations according to the Office for the Liberation of Yazidi Kurdish Women which said that thousands still remain in Daesh captivity. [SotAlIraq]
Tal Afar
The AAH spokesman says the PMF Commission gave orders to the AAH to clear areas west of Mosul, including Tal Afar. He says the AAH will work on blocking Daesh supply lines between Mosul and Syria. [Maalomah]
Unspecified “security forces” killed a Daesh attacker wearing a suicide vest who was attempting to infiltrate Ninewa Police positions in Aski Mosul northwest of Tal Afar, a security source said. [Buratha]
The MoD announced an airstrike targeting a Daesh gathering in Al-Ashiq village in Tal Afar. [MoDWebsite]
Daesh says it destroyed 2 Peshmerga cars with 2 IEDs in Bashar village west of Tal Afar killing the fighters inside. [A3maq]
Daesh said on Sunday its snipers killed two Peshmerga fighters in Sino village west of Tal Afar. [A3maq]
KURDISTAN
Three civilian were killed by a Turkish airstrike on Mawata village in Mergasor District, in the northern part of Erbil. [ROJ]
The Mayor of Mergasor says the civilians, two brothers and their cousin, were visiting the village when the airstrike happened. [Rudaw]
The Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs refuted the report and said the planes targeted PKK positions and not civilians. [TurkPress]
DaeshDaily comment. Turkish airstrikes on far northern Iraqi Kurdistan do generally target the PKK without hitting civilians. However, the Turks should be advised that any civilians they kill in Mergasor could be Barzani tribesmen.
Hundreds of people demonstrated against the Turkish military presence in Iraq, but this time in Suleimaniya. [ROJ]
The Swedish Prime Minister, Stefan Lofven, arrived to Erbil in an official visit. [BasNews]
[Mada]
REPORTS FROM TURKEY
A police source says security units captured a Daesh foreign terrorist while he was making a bomb in Urfa. [Anadolu]
REPORTS FROM SYRIA
The Turkish military says it attacked 27 Daesh targets and 19 SDF targets in north Aleppo on Sunday. [ARA]
A PKK senior official says the PKK, the PYD and the YPG have no relationship to the SDF faction Jaish Al-Thuwar in north Aleppo. He says Turkey is spreading lies in order to rationalize the seizure of Afrin. [Hawar]
DaeshDaily comment. In any case, this is not the time for the PKK to be making a lot of noise. The PKK should stay away from Syria and Iraq so as not to give Turkey an excuse to intervene.
The Coalition says it conducted 4 airstrikes on Daesh targets in Syria, on or near Manbij (1), Raqqa (2), and Tadmur (1). [InherentResolve]
Northeast (Hasaka, Raqqa)
Hasaka
A local source says Daesh issued orders to send all of its terrorists who fled to Markada city south of Hasaka to the front lines. The source says many Daesh terrorists fled to the city with their families. [ARA]
Daesh said on Sunday that it killed five “PKK” armed men by detonating a parked motorcycle bomb in Hay Mshairfa in Hasaka. [A3maq]
Daesh says it killed two Asayish members and wounded two others by detonating a parked motorcycle in the industrial area in Qamishli. [A3maq]
Four civilians were wounded when a booby-trapped motorcycle exploded in the industrial area of Qamishli. [Hawar]
Daesh issues 2 photos of its religious activities in Al-Sor. [DawaAlhaq]
Raqqa
The YPG says it stopped a Daesh attack southeast of Ain Eissa. [Hawar]
Military sources said on Sunday that three Turkish officers and an opposition group commander were killed in battles near Ain Eissa. [Hawar]
Daesh says two civilians were killed in an “American” airstrike on Jarniya village northwest of Raqqa. [A3maq]
Daesh publishes photos of the corn harvest in the Karama area in Raqqa. [DawaAlhaq]
Northwest (Aleppo, Idlib)
Al-Bab
Local sources say opposition groups, supported by Turkish tanks, stopped their military operations against the SDF and are preparing to attack Al-Bab city. [Hawar]
The Turkish President Erdogan says “some fronts” are telling Turkey not to move into Al-Bab, but the “FSA” is determined to take the city and establish a safe zone. [Dorar]
Daesh publishes photos of its terrorists south and east of Al-Ra’i. [DawaAlhaq]
Azaz
Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) factions targeted Turkey-supported opposition groups in Mare’ and Kaljibrin village on Sunday, killing four fighters and wounding ten. [Hawar]
An opposition group commander says they stopped a massive SDF attack north of Mare’. However, he also says the opposition might stop its attack on the SDF because of international pressure. [ARA]
Turkish artillery and warplanes targeted Tawais village in Azaz. [Hawar]
An opposition group commander says the opposition, supported by Turkish shelling, continued their attacks on Daesh and captured Sheikh Ali and Tawais village and the surrounding farms after heavy battles with Daesh. [ARA]
Opposition groups also captured Wash and Barouza villages, after heavy battles, killing or wounding several Daesh terrorists. [Qasioun]
Turkey-backed opposition groups in Al-Ra’i targeted Tel Rifaat with 12 artillery shells, preparing to attack the city. [Hawar]
Daesh publishes photos of the results of American airstrikes on Turkish villages north of Aleppo. [DawaAlhaq]
Other Northwest Syria
Russian planes killed eleven people, mostly women, and wounded ninety-seven in airstrikes on 2 areas in Idlib province. [Dorar]
The SOHR says sixteen people, including seven women and three children, were killed in airstrikes in Idlib. [SyriaHR]
Sixteen civilians were killed and tens wounded in attacks by Syrian warplanes and artillery, and by opposition mortars, in different areas in Aleppo. [Hawar]
Four civilians, including a child, were wounded by Turkey-backed opposition group shelling on Sheikh Maqsoud. [Hawar]
The YPG says it stopped 2 Daesh attacks in areas south of the Tishrin Dam on Sunday. [Hawar]
Nusra sources say Jolani, the Nusra leader, will announce in an audio message the “Grand Aleppo Battle,” to break the Syrian Army siege on Aleppo, in partnership with other opposition groups. [Qasioun]
Central and West (Homs, Hama, etc.)
Daesh publishes photos of targeting the Syrian Army in the Huwaisis area with heavy artillery. [DawaAlhaq]
Daesh publishes photos of “normal life” in areas under its control in Hama. [DawaAlhaq]
DaeshDaily comment. It’s wonderful to know that the caliphate is successful in Syria too.
Daesh publishes photos of its “police” activities in Hama. [DawaAlhaq]
East (Deir Ez-Zor)
A local activist says Daesh launched a counter attack in order to recapture the areas it lost to the Syrian Army and allied militias in Dei Ez-Zor. He also says Syrian warplanes targeted Daesh positions in the area. [ARA]
Daesh raided jewelry shops in Buqrus city east of Deir Ez-Zor and confiscated large quantities of gold and money, and captured four people it accused them of cooperating with the Syrian Government. [ARA]
Daesh publishes photos of battles with the Syrian Army in the Deir Ez-Zor area. [DawaAlhaq]
South (Rif Damashq, Suwayda, Daraa, etc.)
Nusra Front issued a video of a Daesh terrorist being shot by a Nusra sniper in the Yarmouk Camp. [DawaAlhaq]
OTHER MIDDLE EAST/NORTH AFRICA REPORTS
North Africa
Egypt
Egyptian Apaches and F-16s killed 70 AMB terrorists and wounded 80 in airstrikes near Bala’a village, west of Rafah, on Saturday. Security units captured 2 ABM commanders in the same area. ABM terrorists were gathering in the area to launch major attacks on security forces using vehicle bombs. [ElWatan] [ElWatan] [VetoGate]
A medical source says an 11-year-old girl was killed and an 11-year-old boy wounded when an IED exploded in Hay Al-Safa in Arish. A civilian was killed when a mortar shell fell on his house in the same area. [ElWatan] [ElWatan]
A security source says a 13-year-old girl was killed by a bullet in Hay Al-Zuhour, in Arish. [ElWatan]
Two children were wounded when a shell fell on a house in Rafah. A woman was also wounded by unknown armed men in Rafah. [VetoGate]
A security source says unknown armed men shot and wounded a man and a woman west of Rafah. [ElWatan]
Security units destroyed 6 IEDs in the Irsal area in Rafah city. [VetoGate]
Daesh publishes photos of the results of Egyptian Army bombing on “houses” in Sinai. [DawaAlhaq]
Libya
Northeast
The Libyan National Army (LNA) issued a statement mourning the death of one of its EOD members who was killed while trying to defuse a land mine in Qanfouda on Sunday. [AfriGate]
A military source says 2 LNA soldiers were wounded while the troops were advancing in the Qawarsha area. [AfriGate]
The LNA Special Forces says the body of an LNA soldier, captured earlier in Qawarsha, was found beheaded. [Libya24]
Eyewitnesses say several rockets fell on the Benina area, east of Benghazi, without causing casualties. [Wasat]
Central coast
Daesh says it killed or wounded thirty-four Government of National Accord (GNA) soldiers in battles in Sirte city. [A3maq]
The Misrata Hospital says three GNA fighters were killed and thirty-one wounded in the battles in Sirte on Monday. A medical source says three GNA soldiers were killed there on Sunday. The Misrata Hospital says seven GNA soldiers were killed and twenty wounded on Saturday. [Wasat] [AfriGate] [Wasat]
Misrata Hospital has received 2,759 soldiers who were wounded in the Sirte area battles since May 2016. [Wasat]
The GNA Military says it freed 21 women from Daesh, in addition to an Egyptian man and a Turkish man, in the 600 area. [AfriGate] [Wasat]
Daesh says it destroyed a GNA car with an IED on the coastal road west of Sirte. [A3maq]
Tunisia
The Tunisian Ministry of Interior says security units captured 3 Daesh supporters in Ben Guerdane. [Tunisien]
The Tunisian Ministry of Defense says security units captured 4 wanted takfiris in Monastir. It says those captured were planning terrorist attacks. [Tunisien]
The Tunisian Ministry of Interior says security units captured a Daesh supporter in Bu Zaid on Saturday. [Wasat]
Other countries
Yemen
Daesh publishes photos of battles with Houthis in the Qifa area in Al-Bayda. [DawaAlhaq]
Afghanistan
Daesh said it had captured fifteen pro-government militiamen during a search of the Bar Bajir area south of Jalalabad on Friday. [A3maq]
In an earlier version, Daesh said it captured fifteen PMF fighters before correcting. [A3maq]
Daesh said last week it had “captured” the area.
Pakistan
At least ninety-five cadets and guards have been killed by militants who attacked a police college in the Pakistani city of Quetta, officials say. Three militants wearing suicide bomb vests entered the college late on Monday, reportedly taking hostages. A major security operation lasted for hours and all attackers were killed. [BBC]
Daesh claimed responsibility for the attack and says it killed 60 people and wounded 120. [A3maq]
Daesh says it assassinated a Pakistani Intelligence Service member in Peshawar. [A3maq]
It also says it assassinated a police officer in Peshawar on Friday. [A3maq]
SOCIAL MEDIA
Iraqi activists took to social media to express their anger against the CoR decision on Saturday to prohibit alcohol. [Twitter] [Facebook]
DaeshDaily comment. While the virtuous COR members are obviously concerned about eliminating the sins of consuming alcohol, we wonder if they could show the same righteousness regarding corruption, for example. The same MP who proudly proclaimed that he was responsible for the new bill is implicated in more than a dozen corruption charges. In a well-published video, he was promising government-owned land to people if they voted for his party.
Videos of the Day
A video of a Coalition airstrike on a Daesh repeater tower in Mosul on the 18th of October. [CJTF]
DAESH MEDIA
Daesh issues a propaganda video about its activities in the Yarmouk Camp. [DawaAlhaq]
