September 14, 2015
REPORTS FROM IRAQ
Now trending on social media: a video of an Egyptian cleric saying anyone who becomes a Shia should be killed, and that their blood equals the blood of snakes or mice or mosquitoes, and that anyone who kills them will go to heaven. [Facebook]
DaeshDaily comment: The amount of hatred being spread by mosques over much of the world is appalling and consequential. Such clerics reflect the Salafi-Takfiri line, but not the Sunni faith as a whole. Many are funded by the Saudis to counter Iran, but are raising a generation of suicide bombers who think killing civilians is the best pathway to Heaven. An amazing number of them have died in Iraq and Syria and their successors keep coming. Iraq, Syria, Yemen and Lebanon have become the battlefields of this unholy battle between Iran and the Saudis.
The silence in the face of this message is a crime. The terrorists produced by this sociopathic line of thinking, who don’t die as suicide bombers, are going back to their countries to attack civilians there. Egypt is undermining its own military operation against Daesh when it allows extremist clerics like this to influence its people. Daesh is the pinnacle of this thinking and we will never get rid of Daesh and similar organizations without dealing seriously with such “clerics” who spread their poison in a sick cause, not only in Arab and Muslim countries but also in the west.
REPORTS FROM IRAQ
ANBAR
Falluja
Baghdad Operations Command continued its operations to clear Tuffaha Bridge and Nuaimiya from booby-trapped houses and IEDs and destroyed a Daesh hideout. [IWMC Report] Its troops killed 7 Daesh terrorists and defused 2 booby-trapped houses and 10 IEDs near Tuffaha Bridge. [BOC Media] Iraqi Rapid Intervention Forces killed 3 Daesh terrorists and wounded 5 in Nuaimiya. [BOC Media]
Baghdad Operations Command troops killed 8 Daesh terrorists and destroyed a vehicle and 2 hideouts in Qarma. [BOC Media]
Daesh says it stopped an Iraqi forces attack south of Falluja (photos). [Just Paste]
A video of the PMFs near Falluja. [YouTube]
Ramadi
The Chairman of the Subdistrict Council in Khaldiya says Iraqi forces encircled Albu Aitha north of Ramadi preparing to break through. He also says Albu Aitha is one of Daesh’s main strongholds and Iraqi forces have captured many parts of it. [Baghdadia]
Daesh publishes photos of destroying an Iraqi Army armored vehicle in Albu Aitha. [Just Paste]
The Coalition bombed Daesh in Albu Dhiab north of Ramadi, destroying a vehicle bomb and 3 ammunition caches. [IWMC Report]
The Anti-Terrorism Service troops destroyed 3 trucks loaded with explosives north of Anbar University. [IWMC Report]
The IFP Commander says the IFP and Anbar Police arrested 26 members of Daesh sleeper cells in Khaldiya. [Forat]
The Chairman of Khaldiya’s Security Committee says Daesh shelled several areas in Khaldiya with mortars, killing 2 civilians and injuring 6. [Baghdadia] A security source says Daesh shelled the areas near Khaldiya hospital the same day the government reopened it, killing 2 civilians and injuring 8. [Sumaria]
A security source says Iraqi forces destroyed 4 Daesh boats trying to cross the Euphrates to Khaldiya. [Baghdadia]
The IFP Commander says the Rapid Intervention Forces killed 2 Daesh terrorists in Hsaiba east of Ramadi. [Baghdadia]
Videos of the PMFs battles in Hsaiba. [YouTube] [YouTube]
The IFP also killed a Daesh sniper in Tal Mshaihda east of Ramadi. [IWMC Report]
Hit
A security source says the Coalition bombed a Daesh convoy between Hit and Ramadi killing 9 terrorists and destroying 3 vehicles. [Baghdadia]
A PMF commander says Iraqi forces killed a Daesh sharia official for west Ramadi and one of his associates in Jubba north of Baghdadi. [Sumaria]
The Commander of the Iraqi Army’s 7th Division says Iraqi airpower, in coordination with the Military Intelligence, destroyed a Daesh weapons and explosives storehouse in the Al-Doulab area in Hit. [Sumaria] He also says Daesh allowed several families to leave Al-Doulab after paying $800 per person and after Daesh confiscated their properties. [Sumaria]
Elsewhere in Anbar
A PMF spokesman refutes the reports about the PMFs withdrawing from Anbar after the arrival of American troops. He says Anbar liberation is the Iraqi forces’ job and the participation of the Americans troops will serve Daesh. [Iraq Press]
DaeshDaily comment. There is a Sunni rumor that US troops are coming to Anbar, apparently baseless. The rumor is enough to bring another blustering statement from an anti-American Shia militia spokesman. We wonder if the gentleman would also like the Americans to stop bombing Daesh in Anbar so as to make him feel better.
Local officials from Anbar say the Iraqi Ministry of Education did not allow thousands of graduating high school students from Anbar, in areas under government control, to participate in final exams. The chairman of Ameriyat Al-Falluja subdistrict says 4,000 students demonstrated to demand participation in the central exams. [Sumaria]
DaeshDaily comment. This is a once in a lifetime exam that determines what university placement each student who passes will get. The students’ college education and career depend on it. Those who fail to pass, or don’t take the test, are forced to repeat their entire final year of high school. All of which makes the Ministry of Education, which one might presume to be a ministry of smart people, look incompetent. It’s another example among too many of why Iraqis are frustrated with their government.
Daesh publishes a video of fighting in Anbar. [Archive]
SALAHUDDIN
Baiji
The Mayor of Baiji says Iraqi forces cannot liberate Baiji because of the lack of support and reinforcements from the Iraqi government. A KH militia official charges that the government is not supporting Iraqi forces there and is “not serious” about liberating Baiji. [Rudaw]
A PMF spokesman says 3,000 Daesh terrorists have been killed since the start of the military operations in Baiji last year. [Maalomah]
The Anti-Terrorism Service troops and IFP advanced in Hay Al-Tameem in Baiji, killing 6 Daesh fighters and destroying 3 vehicles. [IWMC Report]
The PMFs say their troops clashed with Daesh in Baiji for 14 hours and stopped a Daesh attack, killing more than 50 terrorists. [PUKMedia]
Daesh publishes a video of the fights in Baiji. [Archive]
Tikrit
Samarra Operations Command defused 6 booby-trapped houses in Mkaishifa south of Tikrit and arrested a man wanted on terrorism charges. [IWMC Report]
The Iraq Minister of Migration and Displacement says 30,000 displaced families have returned to their homes in Salahuddin. [Rudaw]
BAGHDAD
A member of the Security and Defense Committee in the Iraqi CoR says Shia MPs are trying to pass the Military Compulsory Service Law instead of the National Guard Law. [Maalomah] A Shia MP linked to the AH says the new draft of the NG Law was changed (by the Americans of course) and the current version is not the one approved by the Council of Ministers. He says the new draft requires that NG commanders to be graduates of the military colleges and to be from the same governorates, which excludes the PMF commanders and allows Saddam officers to come back. [Buratha]
According to security sources:
- The body of unknown man was found shot in near Al-Qanat Highway in east Baghdad. [Mada]
- Unknown armed men kidnapped 2 employees of the Ministry of Water Resources in Rustumiya in southeast Baghdad, then killed one of them and threw his body on the highway. [Sumaria]
- Security forces found an IED and a Daesh flag in Yusufiyah in south Baghdad. [Sumaria]
- An IED exploded near a popular market in Mahmudiya in south Baghdad, killing 2 civilians and injuring 8. [Mada]
- A civilian was killed and 6 wounded in an IED explosion on Al-Kifah Street in downtown Baghdad. [Baghdadia]
- Unknown armed men shot and killed a former Army officer in Hay Al-Adel in west Baghdad. [Mada]
- An employee of the Iraqi Ministry of Industry was severely wounded when a sticker IED exploded under his car in Hay Al-Hussein in west Baghdad. [Mada]
- Two people were killed and 7 wounded when a parked car exploded in Al-Nusour Square in west Baghdad. [Mada]
Daesh pamphlet distribution in north Baghdad [Just Paste]
Security forces found 2 tankers filled with explosives and 2 IEDs in addition to Daesh pamphlets in Abu Ghraib in western Baghdad. [Sumaria]
Baghdad Operations Command killed a Daesh terrorist and wounded another and destroyed a mortar and a weapons cache in the Ubaid area in Abu Ghraib. [IWMC Report]
The IWMC says Iraqi and Coalition airpower bombed Daesh locations and convoys in Falluja and Hit, Baiji and Tuz, Kasik and Sinjar, killing many Daesh terrorists and destroying vehicles, car bombs, a training camp and a weapons storehouse. [Ghad]
The IAF conducted 10 sorties and the IAA one.
The Coalition conducted 16 sorties, killing “dozens” of Daesh terrorists and destroying 10 hideouts, 2 vehicle bombs and a troop carrier. [IWMC Report]
DIYALA
A security source says armed men attacked an Iraqi Army headquarters in Mansouriya, killing 7 soldiers and injuring 7. [Rudaw]
A security source says 2 unknown bodies were found in the Al-Doulab Village south of Muqdadiya. [Baghdadia]
A security source says a roadside IED exploded in Abbara subdistrict north of Baquba, killing a civilian and injuring 4. [Baghdadia]
A security source says 2 civilians were killed and 5 wounded in an IED explosion in a popular market in Qara Tapa subdistrict in northern Diyala. [Baghdadia]
KIRKUK
The Governor of Kirkuk says the Peshmerga liberated large areas from Daesh south of Kirkuk. He also says Kirkuk received 240 displaced families who escaped from Daesh controlled areas. [Sumaria]
DaeshDaily Comment: As usual, the Governor didn’t mention Iraqi forces’ participation in the battles against Daesh in Kirkuk.
The Governor says he sent instructions to Kirkuk University to accept all Christian Iraqi students from Tikrit University. [Sumaria]
The spokesman of the Asaish (Kurdish security) says his forces arrested 45 Daesh members in Daquq villages. [Sumaria]
A PUK official says the Iraqi armed forces killed a Daesh local commander in Hawija who was responsible for killing hundreds of civilians. [PUKMedia]
NINEWA
The director of the Kidnapped Yazidis Office in the KRG says 18 Yazidis from Sinjar were liberated last night and transported to Dahuk. [Etejah]
A local source says Daesh arrested 57 civilians in Mosul accusing them of spying. [BasNews]
A source in the forensic department in Mosul says they received the bodies of 33 Daesh terrorists killed in Coalition airstrikes during the last 24 hours. [BasNews]
The deputy governor of Ninewa says the Iraqi government prevented 422 pilgrims from going to Saudi Arabia for security reasons. He says the government allowed men over 60 and women over 45 to go and 585 people from Mosul went to Haj. [Iraq Press]
A PUK official says a local group called the Mosul Independent Youth claimed responsibility for killing 5 Daesh female members from Al-Khansa Battalions in the Al-Majmoua Al-Thaqafiya area of Mosul. [Sumaria]
A Peshmerga source says 4 Peshmerga fighters were killed by a mortar shell in Sinjar. The source also says the Coalition’s bombing in Sinjar killed 8 terrorists. [Rudaw]
A member of Mosul Notables Council says Daesh leader Awwad Baghdadi attended the Friday prayers last week in Tal Afar. [Karemlash]
A PUK official says Daesh executed another mosque imam in Mosul. [Karemlash]
OTHER GOVERNORATES
Kurdistan
A report of Kurdish families paying hundreds of thousands of dollars to intermediaries to get back their sons who joined Daesh. A Kurdish official says 500 Kurds joined Daesh. [Iraq Press]
Southern Iraq
The Chairman of Kerbala GC says security forces defused a car bomb in Ain Al-Tamur in the west, close to Anbar. [Baghdadia]
REPORTS FROM SYRIA
The YPG Asayesh in Hasaka says 3 of its members were killed, along with 10 civilians, and many other civilians were wounded in a car bomb attack in Khushman in north Hasaka. [Hawar] Another source says a car bomb exploded near a YPG headquarters, killing 8 people, and 30 minutes later an oil tanker bomb exploded nearby, killing or wounding 15 people. [Rudaw] A third source says the leader of a local militia linked to the Syrian regime was killed in the attack. [Hawar] The casualty count of the 2 explosions increased to 26 people, mostly civilians. [Welati]
Photos of the explosion in Hasaka. [BasNews]
Daesh claimed responsibility for the two attacks. [Dump]
A YPG official says Daesh is deploying a major concentration of troops to Shaddadi in south Hasaka to attack the Kurdish forces. [Welati]
Daesh publishes a video of the fighting with the Syrian Army in southeast Hasaka. [Yandex]
A YPG Asayesh source says 10 Daesh members disguised as Kurdish fighters sneaked into Tal Tamur, a mostly Assyrian town in Hasaka. [BasNews]
Kurdish sources say Daesh shelled villages west and southwest of Kobane, wounding 7 civilians. The sources say the Kurdish forces responded and shelled Daesh locations in south Jarabulus. [BasNews]
A military source says a YPG fighter was killed and 4 injured when Daesh shelled the Kurdish forces with mortars south of Sarrin. [BasNews]
A local source says 6 Daesh members were killed and 4 injured while preparing a car bomb in Manbij in eastern Aleppo countryside. [BasNews]
Daesh says it stopped a Syrian Army attack trying to retake the rocket battalion headquarters in Deir Al-Zor (photos). [Just Paste]
Daesh publishes photos of executing 2 men accused of murder. [Just Paste]
Daesh says it captured 2 hills, killed a Syrian colonel, and destroyed a tank in Jazl. [Dump]
REPORTS FROM OTHER MIDDLE EAST/NORTH AFRICAN COUNTRIES
Egypt. Daesh publishes photos of destroying an Egyptian army tank south of Sheikh Zuweid. [Just Paste]
The Egyptian Army says it killed 11 terrorists, arrested 51 suspects, and destroyed 63 IEDs, 5 vehicles, 26 motorcycles and 55 hideouts in the 8th day of its campaign in Sinai. [Youm7]
Egyptian MOI says security forces killed 2 terrorists responsible for many terrorist attacks, in their hideout between Cairo and Suez. [AfriGate]
Libya. Daesh publishes a video of executing a Tunisian man in Benghazi, after accusing him of spying. [Archive]
A car bomb exploded in Tripoli without reports of casualties. [AfriGate]
Italian news agency ANSA says Daesh kidnapped 12 Egyptian workers, including Copts, in Sirte. [AfriGate]
Daesh audio newsletter in English. [Archive]
Daesh miscellaneous news. [Just Paste] [Just Paste] [Just Paste]
SOCIAL MEDIA SOURCES
Facebook Page of the Day
Baghdad Operations Command page.
Daesh Twitter Accounts of the Day
https://twitter.com/dawla90102
https://twitter.com/naser56753411
https://twitter.com/Isis__229W
