August 8, 2016
Manbij Civilians (Hawar)
Today’s Major Developments
North Baghdad military operation aims to clear Daesh out of Tarmiya continues.
Hawija situation deteriorating as food supplies dwindle & Daesh executions rise.
Army stops multi-site Daesh attack in Qayara-Makhmur area.
Minister of Defense says troops have captured 16 south Ninewa villages so far.
Daesh remnants in Manbij using human shields to fend off MMC troops.
US launches 12 more airstrikes on Daesh in Libya.
Daesh claims responsibility for deadly attack in Pakistan.
REPORTS FROM IRAQ
NATIONAL NEWS
The Ministry of Defense announced on Sunday that the third group of four F-16s arrived at Balad Airbase. The Iraqi government signed a deal in 2011 with the US to buy 36 F-16s. [Mada]
The Coalition says it conducted 8 airstrikes on Daesh targets in Iraq, seven in Ninewa, in the areas of Mosul (2), Qayara (2), Sinjar (1), Kasik (1), and Sultan Abdullah (1), and one in the Ramadi area. [InherentResolve]
BAGHDAD
Security-related incidents reported
Center (Rusafa, Karkh, Karrada, etc.)
The Rusafa Investigation Court says 2 Daesh suspects responsible for distributing the salary payments of killed Daesh terrorists to their families were captured in Baghdad. [Sumaria]
Northeast (Adhamiya, etc.)
A local police source says a Ministry of Social Affairs employee was killed when a sticky IED exploded under his vehicle in the Saba’ Qusour area, in Shaab. [Maalomah]
An MoI source says a Ministry of Trade employee was killed and his two sons wounded when a sticky IED exploded under their vehicle in Adhamiya. [Mada]
North (Tarmiya, Taji, etc.)
The Baghdad Operations Command says its troops destroyed 30 suicide terrorist guesthouses and confiscated large quantities of weapons and explosives, in addition to killing many terrorists, in its operations to clear Tarmiya District. [Sumaria]
Daesh said on Sunday that it killed four Iraqi soldiers with an IED in the Meshahda area in Tarmiya. [A3maq]
East (Sadr City, New Baghdad, etc.)
An MoI source says the bodies of two unknown women were find shot in Hay Al-Nasr.[Mada]
South (Dora, Mahmudiya)
An MoI source says two people were killed and ten wounded when an IED exploded near a wholesale market in Yusufiyah. [Mada]
The MoD says Iraq Army 23rd brigade killed a Daesh terrorist and destroyed a guesthouse filled with IEDs and explosives in the Baijiya area. The same brigade killed 2 terrorists, one of them wearing an explosives vest, in the Huwairat area. [Harbi]
An MoI source says three tribal PMF fighters were killed and seven wounded when an IED exploded on their convoy in Albu Aitha. [Mada]
A security source says a Joint Security Unit captured a man wanted on terrorism charges and found an IED in Dora. [Harbi]
West (Mansour, Ghazaliya, Abu Ghraib)
An MoI source says one person was killed and seven wounded when an IED exploded in a commercial area in Iskan. [Mada]
Total Baghdad incidents reported: 12 (Includes only incidents reported)
ANBAR
Ramadi
The IFP commander says his troops in Jazeera Khaldiya killed 9 Daesh terrorists, confiscated a supply vehicle, defused 30 booby-trapped houses and destroyed 3 others, defused 12 IEDs and 3 explosives vests, cleared a tunnel network, and destroyed a Daesh vehicle. [Mada]
The Council of Ministers Secretariat says the mass grave found in Jazeera Khaldiya contained the bodies of more than 100 Daesh terrorists, mostly Asians, who were killed between 2 weeks and 2 months ago according to a forensics team report. [Sumaria]
A video of children from Jazeera Khaldiya in a displacement camp in the Kilo 18 area. The children explain that they were trained by Daesh on how to kill. The children are attending rehabilitation sessions in the camp. [Rudaw]
The PMFs Press says Iraqi forces killed 50 Daesh terrorists near the Albu Kannan area, south of Jazeera Khaldiya. [AIN]
The Anbar Operations Commander Iraqi Army 10th division killed 25 Daesh terrorists who had fled the Jazeera Khaldiya fighting, in the Jamalonat area in Thirthar. [Baghdadia]
He also says Coalition warplanes destroyed a Daesh hideout in Jazeera Ramadi, killing 2 terrorists. [Sumaria]
A military source says a Rapid Intervention battalion commander was killed by a Daesh sniper in Jazeera Khaldiya. [Sumaria]
Daesh says it destroyed 4 Iraqi Army Humvees, 2 personnel carriers, and 2 bulldozers in the Albu Bali area in Jazeera Khaldiya. [A3maq]
Here Daesh says it destroyed 5 Humvees, a tank, and a bulldozer, in the Albu Bali area. [A3maq]
Daesh says it destroyed 3 Iraqi Army Humvees in Jazeera Khaldiya. [A3maq]
DaeshDaily comment. These reports might be talking about the same thing.
A tribal PMF commander says his troops captured 2 Daesh terrorists, in two different areas in Ramadi District. [Sumaria]
Hit/Haditha
The MoD says Jazeera Operations Command troops destroyed a Daesh vehicle in the Barutha area, northwest of Baghdadi, killing the terrorists inside. [Harbi]
The MoD says Coalition warplanes destroyed a Daesh weapons storehouse in the Qusairat area. [Harbi]
A security source says one woman and two children were killed when Daesh mortar shells fell on different areas in Hit city. [Baghdadia]
Rutba/Western Anbar
A tribal fighters’ commander says his troops stopped a Daesh attack on the Al-Waleed Border Crossing in Rutba District and forced the terrorists to flee. [Sumaria]
A tribal PMF commander says Iraqi forces, supported by the IAA, stopped a Daesh attack near the Al-Waleed border crossing station, killing 30 terrorists and destroying 8 vehicles. [Maalomah]
Daesh says it attacked Iraqi forces in the Kilo 160 area northeast of Rutba, destroying 2 barracks, and killing four soldiers and wounding six, destroying 5 vehicles and capturing two PMF fighters. [DawaAlhaq]
Daesh issues a video of the attack [A3maq]
SALAHUDDIN
Shirqat
The MoD says Salahuddin Operations Command troops destroyed a Daesh vehicle with a Kornet missile in the Rihaiwat area in Shirqat. [Harbi]
A PUK official says unknown armed men shot and killed a Daesh local commander in the Shirqat area. [PUKMedia]
On Saturday, Daesh issued a video of the results of an American airstrike on a grain storehouse in Shirqat. [A3maq]
Tikrit
The MoD says Emergency Police found a weapons cache and military equipment in Hay Al-Yarmouk in Tikrit city. [Harbi]
A PMF commander says Iraqi forces started a military operation to clear the Mtaibija area between Salahuddin and Diyala. He says the area is used by Daesh to train suicide terrorists and rig vehicles with explosives and send them to Diyala, Baghdad, Salahuddin and Kirkuk. [Sumaria]
Samarra
The MoD says Salahuddin Operations Command Explosives Ordinance Disposal defused 27 IEDs and confiscated other explosives in the Thirthar area. [Harbi]
The MoD says Iraqi forces captured 4 men wanted on terrorism charges in the Samarra area. [Harbi]
Southern Salahuddin
The MoD says Iraqi forces captured 10 men wanted on terrorism charges and confiscated weapons and ammunition in different parts of southern Salahuddin. [Harbi]
DIYALA
Baquba
The Chairman of the Security Committee in Diyala Provincial Council says more than 20,000 displaced families returned to their houses from the displaced persons areas so far in 2016. [Sumaria]
Muqdadiya/Abu Saida
A security source says unknown armed men shot and killed a lawyer near a local market in Muqdadiya. [Maalomah]
Northern Diyala
A security source says Iraqi forces destroyed 4 Daesh boats in the Himrin area, northeast of Baquba. [IraqPress]
KIRKUK
Kirkuk
A security source says unknown armed men in an SUV shot and killed a woman in Hay Ronaki, in south Kirkuk. [Sumaria]
Hawija
A PMF commander says Daesh executed three brothers publicly in Hawija after accusing them of attacking its men. He says Daesh executions of civilians have increased rapidly in Hawija recently. [Sumaria]
A Sunni Arab MP from Kirkuk said on Sunday that Daesh executed two former security personnel in Hawija. He also says four families were killed by Daesh land mines as they tried to flee Hawija. [Sumaria]
A tribal leader says the situation in Hawija is deteriorating, and three babies died because of lack of milk in the market. He says the markets are closed and there is no water, electricity, or health service. He says Daesh is holding around 200,000 citizens hostage in the city. He is asking Iraqi forces to intervene as quickly as possible. [Sumaria]
Local sources say unknown armed men shot and killed an Egyptian Daesh commander in a local market in Hawija. [Maalomah]
Southwest
A Peshmerga commander says the Kurdish forces stopped a Daesh attack on Humaira and Nawafel villages, in Rashad subdistrict, killing several terrorists and forcing the rest to flee. [Mada]
A local source said on Sunday that several Daesh leaders in southwest Kirkuk governorate withdrew their loyalty from Daesh’s leader, Baghdadi, and pledged allegiance to the Al-Qaeda leader, Zawahiri. [Sumaria]
NINEWA
Mosul
A source from Mosul city says Daesh publicly executed 8 of its terrorists who fled the battles in Jazeera Khaldiya, suffocating them with cooking gas in a closed car. [Sumaria]
A local source says Daesh beheaded seven people in the industrial area in Mosul, after accusing them of communicating with Iraqi forces. [Sumaria]
A PUK official says Kata’eb Suqoor Al-Mosul killed the Daesh financial official and another local leader in the New Mosul area on the west side of the city. [PUKMedia]
A local source says unknown armed men broke into a house used by Daesh female hisbah members in Mosul. He says more than twenty-five women, mostly from Yemen and Libya, were taken to an unknown location. The source says the bodies of five of the women were later found shot. [Maalomah]
Daesh issued a video on Saturday, of the results of American airstrikes on a college and cement storehouses in Badoush. [A3maq]
Makhmur/Qayara
Ninewa Operations Command troops, supported by Coalition warplanes, stopped a massive Daesh attack Sunday morning on Kermerdi, Kharbardan, Khara’eb Jabur, the floating bridge, the Qayara Airfield, and the residential compound, killing 104 Daesh terrorists and destroying 3 vehicle bombs, 3 mortar units, and a rocket launcher. [MoD Website]
Daesh issues a video and photos of an attack on Iraqi forces near Kermerdi village west of Makhmur on Sunday. [A3maq] [DawaAlhaq]
Daesh said it killed five Iraqi soldiers and destroyed several vehicles in the attack. Daesh publishes a photos of a Lebanese suicide terrorist who attack Iraqi forces with a vehicle bomb in the area. [DawaAlhaq]
The MoD’s Press Office says the Minister of Defense’s convoy was targeted by mortars near the Ihjala area. It says the Minister, the Army Chief of Staff, and the Commander of Ground Troops, and other senior commanders were in the convoy, but no one got hurt. [Maalomah]
The Minister of Defense said in a press conference after meeting with the Ninewa Operations Commander, that all Iraqi forces, including the Peshmerga and the PMFs, will participate in the Mosul liberation. He also says Iraqi forces have liberated 16 villages in southern Ninewa so far. [ROJ]
The Minister says the Mosul liberation battle will start soon. He also says what happened in the COR will not affect the military operations. [Mada]
The Chairman of the United for Reform Coalition, Osama Al-Nujaifi, issued a statement after meeting with the US Ambassador to Iraq, Stuart Jones, that his Coalition refuses the participation of PMFs in Ninewa’s liberation because it will send the wrong message to the people of Ninewa and it will serve the Daesh media campaign. Several other Sunni leaders attended the meeting. [Mada]
A PMF senior commander says Nujaifi is trying to extend the life of Daesh, and without the PMFs, Nujaifi (and other politicians) wouldn’t have been able to remain in Iraq. [SotKurdistan]
DaeshDaily comment. We recognize that letting the Shia PMFs participate in Ninewa is a mixed blessing. So is not including them. However, Nujaifi is mostly showing the usual anti-government sectarianism as he pretends to protect the people he has already failed. By ignoring his posturing, the Ambassador and the government would be giving the appropriate response to his phony “reform” coalition.
Ambassador Jones also met with former Prime Minister Awad Allawi, in Allawi’s office in Baghdad, to discuss the Mosul liberation campaign. [Mada]
A PUK official says unknown armed men shot and killed a Daesh sharia judge in Safina village, south of Qayara. [PUKMedia]
Daesh says its snipers killed three Iraqi soldiers in Arkabah village south of Qayara. [A3maq]
Daesh says it destroyed Iraqi Army personnel carriers and a bulldozer near the Qayara Airfield. [A3maq]
Daesh says it destroyed an Iraqi Army Humvee and vehicle carrier with IEDs near the Qayara Intersection. [A3maq]
Daesh publishes photos of battles south of Qayara. [DawaAlhaq]
Daesh issues a propaganda video about Coalition airstrikes on Ninewa. [Isdarat]
South (Baaj, Hatra)
A Ninewa Police source says Coalition warplanes targeted Daesh locations in Mshairfa village in Hatra District, destroying 2 vehicles and several military positions, and killing 6 terrorists. [BasNews]
KURDISTAN
A security source says 4 Ansar Al-Islam terrorists sneaked into the Garmian area in southern Suleimaniya from Iran after Iran recently executed 21 Sunni Kurds. The group is a Kurdish Salafi jihadi group based in the Suleimaniya mountains with links to Al-Qaeda. [BasNews]
SOUTHERN IRAQ
Babel
The Babel Police commander says a joint security force captured 5 men wanted on terrorism charges in Jbala and confiscated weapons and ammunition. [Mada]
REPORTS FROM SYRIA
The Coalition sys it conducted 6 airstrikes on Daesh targets in Syria (1 near Albu Kamal that destroyed 83 Daesh oil tankers, 4 near Manbij, and 1 near Mare’.) [InherentResolve]
Northeast (Hasaka, Raqqa)
A PYD Commission says it will finish its report regarding the relationships between Turkey and Daesh very soon. The committee was established by the PYD’s External Affairs Commission in Qamishli. [Hawar]
The PYD Asayesh captured a Daesh cell of 3 terrorists and confiscated large weapons and explosives near Tal Abyad. The source says the 3 terrorists were hiding in an isolated area near Suluk and they were wounded in clashes with the Asayesh before they were caught. [BasNews]
Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently says Daesh executed a young college student in Raqqa, after he was caught wearing military trousers. It says Daesh held him prisoner for 5 months before executing him. [EnabBaladi]
Daesh issues a video of one of its religious seminars in Raqqa. [A3maq]
Northwest (Aleppo, Idlib)
Manbij campaign
Manbij Military Council troops have captured most of Manbij city except for 2 neighborhoods north of the city center. [Hawar]
A local activist says Daesh withdrew from Manbij city center after burning down houses. He says Daesh only controls less than 1 sq. km, which is .3 sq. miles, in the city, and is holding civilians hostage in that area. [EnabBaladi]
A Syrian Democratic Forces source confirmed that Daesh controls the “security compound” in Manbij city, in addition to 2 neighborhoods in the north, on the road to Jarabulus. [ARA]
Another SDF commander says his troops entered the “security compound” and there are only 130 Daesh terrorists there, trapped from all sides. [Qasioun]
The Manbij Military Council General Command issued a statement allowing Daesh terrorists to leave Manbij city in return for Daesh releasing the citizens it is holding hostage in north Manbij. It says Daesh trapped all of the civilians in the area it controlled in Manbij and moved them to the northern part of the city in order to use them as human shields. [Hawar]
Manbij Military Council troops captured the Qura Ardhiya Circle and Hay Al-Tabba in Manbij city center (video). [Hawar] [Hawar]
Daesh says two children were killed in a Coalition airstrike on north Manbij. [A3maq]
The YPG publishes photos of three of its fighters who were killed in Manbij, including an Egyptian citizen. [Hawar]
A video of civilians rescued by MMC fighters in Manbij [Hawar]
A video of a Coalition airstrike destroying a Daesh fighting position near Manbij on July 13. [CJTF]
Other northwest reports
The Commander of Aleppo Conquest Operations Room, an opposition umbrella group, threatened the YPG with a ferocious war, accusing the YPG of supporting the Syrian Army in Aleppo. [Qasioun]
The Syrian Observatory for Human Right says Daesh released about 30 of its field-level leaders over the past two days after completing its investigations regarding one of its top commanders, Abu Al-Haija’ Al-Tunisi. Reliable sources told the Observatory that Daesh demoted the released leaders to soldiers. The Tunisian terrorist was a notable military commander, and was sent by the Daesh leader, Baghdadi, from Iraq, to manage the military operations in northeast Aleppo, but his was killed by a Coalition drone on March 30th. Daesh executed more than 50 of its terrorists after the airstrike, while tens of others are still imprisoned. [SyriaHR]
Central and West (Homs, Hama, etc.)
Daesh says it stopped a Syrian Army attack on the Shindakhyat area east of Homs. [A3maq]
Daesh says it killed thirteen soldiers, destroyed an armored vehicle, and captured weapons and vehicles in the same attack. [A3maq] [A3maq]
Daesh says it attacked 2 Syrian Army barricades in Tal Al-Maqlai’, east of Tadmur, killing all seventeen soldiers and capturing weapons and ammunition, planting IEDs at the barricades. Daesh says when reinforcement arrived at the barricades, it detonated the IEDs, killing or wounding more soldiers. [DawaAlhaq]
The Russian Ministry of Defense say one of its long range bombers, a T-22 M3 dispatched from Russia, launched extensive airstrikes on Daesh east and northwest of Tadmur, destroying a headquarters and a military camp near Sukhnah and destroying 2 headquarters, a weapons and ammunitions storehouse, 3 armored vehicles, and 12 machine gun-mounted vehicles, killing “large numbers” of Daesh terrorists. [BasNews]
Daesh says it killed seven Syrian soldiers in an ambush near the T4 airport, east of Homs on Sunday. [A3maq]
East (Deir Ez-Zor)
On Sunday, Daesh said 2 of its suicide terrorists remotely detonated a vehicle bomb near a New Syria Army compound in the Al-Tanaf area in the Syria/Jordan/Iraq border triangle. Daesh says after that, the terrorists entered the camp and detonated their explosives vests. [A3maq]
South (Rif Damashq, Suwayda, Daraa, etc.)
A video of a Sunni mosque imam from Damascus saying Daesh kidnapped him and tried to force him to issue fatwas legitimizing killing any Sunni who supports the Syrian government, in addition to Shia and Alawites. He says when he refused, Daesh cut off his ear and forced him to eat it. He doesn’t say how he survived. [BasNews]
DaeshDaily comment. Again, Saddam cut off the ears of thousands of young men who didn’t join the military service in the 1990s. A lot of Daesh’s cruelties were not invented in other countries.
OTHER MIDDLE EAST/NORTH AFRICA REPORTS
North Africa
Egypt
Medical sources say unknown armed men shot and killed a 45-year-old man south of Sheikh Zuweid. [VetoGate]
Unknown armed men shot and killed a one-year-old child and wounded his grandfather south of Sheikh Zuweid. [VetoGate]
Sources close to Ansar Bait Al-Maqdis blamed the Egyptian Army for the incident. [DawaAlhaq]
A security source said on Sunday that a policeman was wounded when an IED exploded on his patrol near Joura village south of Sheikh Zuweid. [VetoGate]
A 10-year-old boy was severely wounded when unknown armed men shot at him in Sheikh Zuweid. [VetoGate]
An Egyptian police captain was wounded when an IED exploded on him south of Rafah city. [VetoGate]
Eyewitnesses say an explosion happened on the coastal road in Arish without giving more details. [VetoGate]
Local sources say a civilian and five policemen were wounded when an IED exploded in the Granada area in Arish. [ElWatan]
A security source told Sky News that a cell of 9 Daesh suspects was captured in a village in Tanta. [Sumaria]
Libya
Daesh issues a propaganda video about Libyan armed groups that are fighting Daesh. [Isdarat]
Northeast
A Libyan special forces spokesman says his troops found a Daesh secret prison and released several prisoners in the Qanfouda area west of Benghazi on Sunday. His troops found a car bomb factory in the same area. [AfriGate] [AfriGate] [AfriGate]
Central coast
A Libyan National Accord Government Airforce commander says American warplanes conducted 12 airstrikes on Daesh on Monday, targeting Daesh snipers and vehicles, destroying a vehicle bomb and killing 5 terrorists, 3 snipers and 2 suicide bombers. [Wasat]
A Libyan Field Commander says the Field Commanders are awaiting final military orders to enter the residential areas in Sirte. He says Libyan troops will liberate Sirte very soon. Daesh’s vehicle bombs, landmines, and snipers are the main reason for the delay. [Wasat]
The National Accord Government Military press says its troops liberated the guest palaces east of Hay Al-Dollar in Sirte. Libyan troops, supported by warplanes, launched a massive attack from all sides on Daesh in Sirte on Sunday. [Wasat]
The National Accord Government military said Sunday that its troops have captured around 90% of Sirte city. [Wasat]
The Military Field Hospital says four Libyan soldiers were killed and thirty-two wounded in the battles in Sirte on Monday. [AfriGate]
Other countries
Afghanistan
A senior Afghani Army commander says Daesh’s emir of Khorasan was killed by a drone airstrike in Achin district in Nangarhar, on the Pakistan border, along with 23 other terrorists. [Anadolu]
On Saturday, Daesh issued a video of American weapons and military equipment it captured in Nangarhar, including an ID of an American soldier. [A3maq]
Brigadier General Charlie Cleveland told Fox News on Sunday the American soldier whose identification was pictured, U.S. Army Specialist Ryan Jay Larson, was not captured by Daesh.
“Obviously, SPC Larson is not captured – he is accounted for and with his unit despite having lost his ID card and possibly some of his equipment during recent operations,” Cleveland said in an email. [FoxNews]
Pakistan
Medical sources say 93 people were killed and 120 wounded when a suicide terrorist detonated himself in the Emergency Section of a hospital in Quetta in Pakistan. The victims were attending the funeral of a famous lawyer who had been shot and killed earlier on Monday. [Rudaw] [Sumaria]
Daesh claimed responsibility for the attack, saying it killed or wounded two hundred people. [A3maq] [A3maq]
Belgium
On Sunday, Daesh claimed the responsibility for the one-man machete attack that wounded two woman police officers in Charleroi city in Belgium, saying the attacker was its soldier. [A3maq]
DAESH MEDIA
Daesh audio newsletter for today [Isdarat]
