September 20, 2016
Ali Eid Al-Jubouri
Today’s Major Developments
Iraqi forces claim victory in Jazeera Baghdadi; turn to Jazeera Hit. […]
Iraqi forces launch major attack on Daesh in Shirqat. […] Videos galore […]
PKK commander claims PKK has been in Kirkuk since mid-2014. […]
Multiple Coalition airstrikes hit Daesh in Mosul. […]
Daesh stages more gruesome executions in Mosul. […]
UN suspends humanitarian aid mission to Aleppo after airstrike kills 20 and destroys convoy. […]
Ban Ki-moon blasts Syrian government for all the people it has killed. […]
At least 560 Libyan soldiers have been killed fighting Daesh in Sirte. […]
REPORTS FROM IRAQ
NATIONAL NEWS
A member of the Human Rights Commission says 800,000 displaced people have returned to their houses in Diyala, Salahuddin and Anbar. [Mada]
It was a busy day in the skies. The Coalition conducted 17 airstrikes on Daesh targets in Iraq, in or near Baghdadi (3), Rawa (1), Falluja (1), and Ramadi (2); in Mosul (4), Kasik (1), and Qayara (4); and in Hawija (1). [InherentResolve]
BAGHDAD
An MoI source says the police captured 14 men wanted on terrorism charges and confiscated light and mid-sized weapons in Dora (south), Tarmiya (north) and Abu Ghraib (west). [Mada]
Security-related incidents reported
Northwest (Kadhimiya, etc.)
An MoI source says an IED exploded near the house of an MoI employee in Hurriya, causing material damage. [Mada]
North (Tarmiya, Taji, etc.)
A security source says a policeman and a prisoner were wounded when armed men attacked a police station with machine guns in Husseiniya. [Baghdadia]
An MoI source says the body of young woman was found shot in Taji. [Mada]
Iraqi Army 45th brigade found 7 IEDs and other explosives in Dhabitya. [BOC Facebook Page]
Northeast (Adhamiya, etc.)
An MoI source says one person was killed and seven wounded when an IED exploded near a popular cafe in Abu Dsheer in Dora. [Mada]
South (Dora, Yusufiyah, Mahmudiya, etc.)
An MoI source says one person was killed and seven wounded when an IED exploded near a popular cafe in Abu Dsheer in Dora. [Mada]
An MoI source says one policeman was killed and four wounded when an IED exploded on their vehicle in Mahmudiya. [Rudaw]
Iraqi Army 17th division found 4 IEDs and 3 C4 cans in different areas in south Baghdad. [BOC Facebook Page]
Southwest (Rasheed, etc.)
An MoI source says one person was killed and five wounded when an IED exploded near a busy market in Bayya’. [Mada]
West (Ghazaliya, Abu Ghraib, etc.)
Iraqi Army 24th brigade found an explosives cache in the Sumailat area. Iraqi Army 60th brigade found 2 Daesh rockets in the Saaidat area. [BOC Facebook Page]
Total Baghdad incidents reported: 11 (Includes only incidents reported)
ANBAR
Ramadi
The Anbar Operations Commander says Iraqi forces cleared Albu Shaaban and Albu Rithi’ in Jazeera Ramadi, killing tens of terrorists. [Mada]
An Anbar Operations Command source says Coalition planes destroyed a Daesh mortar unit, killing 3 Daesh terrorists in the Albu Ali Al-Jassem area in Jazeera Ramadi. [Sumaria]
An Anbar Operations Command source says Iraqi forces broke into the Albu Dhiab area, killing tens of terrorists and destroying a vehicle bomb. [Mada]
Hit/Haditha
A Tribal PMF commander says Iraqi forces cleared Jazeera Baghdadi and raised the Iraqi flag over its buildings, killing tens of terrorists. He also says Iraqi forces are preparing to liberate Jazeera Hit in the coming hours. [Mada]
An earlier report said Iraqi forces, supported by Coalition planes, advanced more than 10 km (6 miles) in Jazeera Baghdadi, destroying 4 Daesh headquarters and killing several terrorists. [Mada]
The Albu Nimr Tribe leader reported that Iraqi forces liberated 2 villages in Jazeera Baghdadi. A Tribal PMF commander said Iraqi forces killed 14 Daesh terrorists and destroyed 2 vehicle bombs in the two villages. [Sumaria] [Mada]
The IWMC says Iraqi forces killed 15 Daesh terrorists in the Qusairiyat area east of Haditha city, and defused 281 IEDs. [Mawazin]
A Tribal PMF commander says Iraqi forces liberated the Al-Sakran valley in Barwana subdistrict in Haditha, killing 22 terrorists and destroying 7 vehicles, 30 IEDs, and 4 rocket launchers. [Mada]
Rutba/Western Anbar
A Tribal PMF commander says Iraqi forces captured a local Daesh terrorist east of Rutba. [Mada]
Coalition planes destroyed a Daesh vehicle bomb garage in Anah. [MoD Website]
SALAHUDDIN
Shirqat
The Shirqat Liberation Operation has started. It was named after Ali Eid Al-Jubouri, a 21-year-old man who was executed by Daesh in March because he raised the Iraqi flag in Shirqat. [MoD Website]
The Mayor of Shirqat District says Iraqi forces have captured 50% of Shirqat District and will clear the entire district within the next few hours. He says the Iraqi Army and the Tribal PMFs are participating in the military operations. He says Daesh terrorists fled toward Hatra and Hawija. [Harbi]
The Chairman of the Shirqat District Council says Iraqi forces are 3 km away from Shirqat city center. He also says there have been no reported casualties among civilians. [Mada]
The Mayor says Iraqi forces have liberated the border area between Ninewa and Salahuddin. They captured an area with several farms in the Dura Al-Taj area that used to be called Qandahar. A member of the Qayara subdistrict council said that Iraqi forces liberated Aitha, Masihili, and Suwaidan villages in Shirqat. [Sumaria]
A military source says Iraqi forces captured the residential compound near Masihili. [Harbi]
An Iraqi Army source says the Iraqi Army liberated Jamsa, Jada’an, and Shabali villages, killing tens of terrorists. [Harbi]
Another field source also said Jamsa and Shabali were seized from Daesh control. The source expected Iraqi troops to announce the capture of Al-Aitha in a matter of hours. [PressIraq]
Daesh says it destroyed 2 Iraqi Army bulldozers and a BMP armored vehicle on the outskirts of Shabali, northwest of Shirqat. [A3maq]
DaeshDaily comment. Daesh usually uses the term “outskirts” when it loses a village, a town, or a city.
Iraqi forces liberated Marir village in northern Shirqat District. People of the liberated areas celebrated the liberation with Iraqi forces. [Mawsleya] [Mawsleya]
DaeshDaily comment. Shirqat is a border district and close to Makhmur and Qayara in Ninewa. The province boundaries are not so significant in a largely rural area where Iraqi forces have had to dig Daesh out one village at a time. Capturing Shirqat and surrounding villages shores up the government’s control of areas south and east of Mosul and is in that respect part of the Mosul campaign.
A Salahuddin Operations Command source says Iraqi forces captured 11 Daesh terrorists and killed 9 in a battle north of Shirqat. However, seven Iraqi soldiers and a PMF fighter were killed, and another PMF fighter wounded in the battle. [Mada]
A security source says people from Shirqat broke into Daesh’s main prison on the west side of Shirqat, killing 5 terrorists and releasing more than 40 prisoners. The source also says people in Shirqat have started to attack Daesh on the east side of the city. [Sumaria]
Iraqi forces destroyed a Daesh vehicle bomb near Jamsa village, killing the suicide terrorist inside. Iraqi forces removed Daesh sand barriers in west Shirqat. Coalition planes destroyed 2 Daesh vehicle bombs near Jamsa village. Coalition warplanes also destroyed another vehicle bomb near the residential compound south of Shirqat and killed 12 Daesh terrorists and destroyed a heavy machine gun south of Shirqat. [Harbi]
A local source says Daesh leaders moved their families from Shirqat toward Hawija along the Tigris River. The source also says the Daesh terrorists who remained in Shirqat are locals, in addition to Daesh’s Ashbal Al-Khilafa boys. [Sumaria]
A local source says Daesh deployed a special group near Hawija to capture the terrorists who fled the Shirqat battles, and have captured 20 of them so far. [Sumaria]
DaeshDaily comment. Read these two stories together for a case study on contradictory policies, and on hypocrisy.
A local source says the Daesh military commander of Shirqat and 2 of his associates were killed by an artillery shelling. [Sumaria]
A source in the Forensics Department in Ninewa says the department received the bodies of over 80 dead terrorists killed in the Shirqat battles. [Harbi]
A PMF spokesman says Tribal PMF fighters from Salahuddin destroyed 4 Daesh vehicles in Shirqat District. [Mada]
Iraqi forces stopped a Daesh attack on the Ain Al-Baidha area in Shirqat district. [MoD Website]
Iraqi Army 35th brigade destroyed 4 Daesh vehicle bombs in Shirqat. [Mawsleya]
A security source says three Iraqi soldiers were wounded by a Daesh IED in Shirqat battles. [Mada]
Daesh says it conducted 2 suicide attacks on the Iraqi Army near Tilul Al-Baj, southwest of Shirqat. [A3maq]Daesh says it destroyed 2 Iraqi Army Abrams tanks near Tilul Al-Baj. [A3maq]
Tikrit
Iraqi forces defused 8 IEDs in Jazeera Tikrit. [MoD Website]
KIRKUK
Kirkuk
A PKK commander says, in response to a Turkmen MP call for the PKK to leave Iraq, that the PKK arrived in Kirkuk in August 2015, based on the request of the people, and they fought alongside the Peshmerga in Kirkuk and Jalawla. He also says they have no troops in Tooz. [ROJ]
However, the Security Committee in Kirkuk, chaired by the Governor, issued a statement saying there are no PKK fighters in Kirkuk. It says only the Commander in Chief (Abadi) has the authority to call on foreign forces to fight in Iraq. [Mada]
DaeshDaily comment. Are they saying the PKK was never there or just that they are not there now? We have published a few reports in the recent past that placed PKK fighters in Kirkuk. These fighters were not summoned by the Prime Minister.
Hawija
A PMF commander says unknown men stabbed and wounded a local Daesh official in Hawija District. [Sumaria]
Southwest
A security source says the Coalition bombed a Daesh convoy of 9 vehicles near Shahid compound in Rashad, killing 10 terrorists. [Sumaria]
A PMF spokesman says a PMF fighter was killed and three others wounded when a leftover Daesh IED exploded on them in Bashir. [BasNews]
NINEWA
Qayara
The Ninewa Operations commander says Iraqi forces liberated all areas in southern Ninewa on the border with Salahuddin. [Mawsleya]
Coalition planes destroyed 7 Daesh rocket launchers in Al-Houd village. [MoD Website]
Iraqi Army 92nd brigade and local PMFs stopped a Daesh attack on 3 villages in the Qayara area. [Mawsleya]
Daesh says it damaged an Iraqi Abrams tank near Al-Nassr village west of Makhmur, in addition to 3 Russian tanks near Qayara, with guided missiles, killing or wounding several Iraqi soldiers. [JustPaste]
DaeshDaily comment. This might be the same Abrams tank that Daesh mentioned yesterday.
Daesh issues a video of targeting 3 Iraqi Army tanks with guided rockets north of Qayara. [A3maq]
Shura/Hammam Alil
The KRG’s security council says Abu Abdul Rahman Al-Shishani was killed with several of his associates by a Coalition airstrike in Shura subdistrict south of Mosul city on September 17th. [Baghdadia]
Mosul
Mosul campaign
Daesh re-opened the entrances of Mosul city after closing them to all vehicles in the early hours of Tuesday morning, according to a well-placed source. The source suggested that Daesh feared an imminent collapse of its control due to repercussions of the fighting in Shirqat. The closure of the city entrances was accompanied by an “unprecedented” deployment of Daesh fighters in the city, the source added. [Non14] [Non14]
Daesh’s “Al-Bayan” radio broadcast went off the air suddenly on Tuesday amid reports of the sounds of intense gunfire in some areas of the city, a local source said. Al-Bayan’s director Abu Ayman Al-Iraqi reportedly fled the area on Monday with his family, prompting Daesh to distribute his photo and call for residents to provide information on his whereabouts. [Non14] [Ghad]
A local source says Daesh organized more than 5 parades on different streets in Mosul in order to shore up morale after the losses in Shirqat. [Sumaria]
A local source says in order to ease the tension in Mosul, Daesh spread rumors in the city that its leader Awwad Baghdadi appeared in Hay Al-Risala in Mosul. The source also says Daesh terrorists were heavily deployed near its headquarters in Mosul. [Mawazin]
DaeshDaily comment. Daesh used the leadership vacuum among Sunni Iraqis to produce its own leader. However, the “caliph” has not appeared in public for more than a year now, and so it’s not clear that he can, so to speak. This has complicated Daesh’s propaganda. With the current losses in land and leadership, the continued failure of Baghdadi to appear might well cause defections within Daesh.
A local source had said that an elite Daesh unit evacuated the Daesh offices in the city. It then surrounded the neighborhood of Hay Al-Nasr in south Mosul, where several Daesh leaders live. [Buratha]
Coalition airstrikes killed 12 Daesh fighters in Mosul on Tuesday and destroyed Daesh weapons and machinery, an Iraqi security source said. [Petra]
A PUK official says Coalition warplanes destroyed Daesh rocket launchers in the Ghabat area, killing 25 terrorists. [PUKMedia]
Local sources say Coalition planes destroyed 14 Daesh vehicles in airstrikes on several areas in Mosul. [Mawsleya]
A Peshmerga commander says his troops stopped a Daesh attack on 2 Kurdish forces military positions near the Mosul Dam, killing 2 terrorists. [Rudaw]
An unidentified aircraft reportedly struck a Daesh caravan near the “Dar Al-Ajaza” medical facility in Mosul’s Al-Zuhour neighborhood, killing an unspecified number of Daesh members. [PressIraq]
A PUK official says Coalition warplanes targeted Daesh at its Mosul University offices, killing 12 terrorists, including a local commander. [Mada]
Daesh says eight people were killed and twenty-six wounded by several American airstrikes on Dawasa, Hadba, Nabi Sheeth, and the North Garage areas in Mosul. [A3maq]
Daesh issues a video of the results of the airstrikes. [A3maq]
Peshmerga fighters repelled a Daesh attack on two Peshmerga positions near Mosul Dam, according to the 18th Federal Police Brigade Commander. [IndependenceNews]
The French aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle departed France on Monday evening and is traveling toward the Middle East to take part in the anticipated battle for Mosul, according to remarks by a French Army commander on Tuesday. [AlBawaba]
A Yazidi PMF source told Al-Quds Al-Arabi Newspaper that the Yazidi PMFs and the PKK, both positioned in the Sinjar District and surrounding areas, will participate in the Mosul liberation. [Hawar]
Conditions in Mosul
Daesh used oxygen welding torches to kill six young men in Mosul’s Al-Andalus neighborhood, according to a source inside Mosul. The victims were bound at the hands and Daesh used the torches to cut their necks, the source said. [AlNadher] [Maalomah]
Daesh publishes photos of publicly cutting off the head of a young man after accusing him of theft. Dozens of children were among the audience. [DawaAlhaq]
A Ninewa Police chief says Daesh stoned a woman to death in Hay Al-Jazaer in east Mosul, after accusing her of adultery. [BasNews]
Midwives are reportedly replacing doctors in attending births in Mosul, as many of the city’s doctors have fled Daesh rule and medical conditions have deteriorated. [NewSabah]
Northwest (Tal Afar, Sinjar)
A PUK official says the Coalition destroyed a Daesh mortar unit on Sino Mountain near Tal Afar, killing several terrorists. [Mada]
South (Baaj, Hatra)
Residents of Baaj, west of Mosul, killed four Daesh members on Tuesday in an attack on a Daesh checkpoint, an anonymous local source in Ninewa governorate said. [Maalomah]
A PUK official says the Coalition destroyed the Daesh communications building in Hatra, killing 17 terrorists, including a Daesh communications officer. [Mada]
REPORTS FROM TURKEY
Two Turkish soldiers were killed by a land mine in Gaziantep near the Syrian border. [Anadolu]
With two soldiers killed in the course of mine-sweeping duties on the Turkish side of the Syrian border, this brings the number of Turkish fatalities in the “Euphrates Shield” operation to ten. [Cumhuriyet]
DaeshDaily comment. Thanks again to our friend in Turkey for this information.
REPORTS FROM SYRIA
The United Nation announced suspension of its humanitarian operations in Syria after Syrian and helicopters destroyed an aid convoy west of Aleppo. The Syrian Red Crescent says one of its local office directors was killed along with 20 other civilians in the airstrike. [ARA]
The Russian Ministry of Defense said neither its planes nor the Syrian Army’s attacked the convoy. [Sumaria]
DaeshDaily comment. Someone is lying.
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has accused the Syrian government of killing the most civilians during the country’s five-year war and said “powerful patrons that keep feeding the war machine also have blood on their hands.”
In his final address to an annual gathering of world leaders at the UN on Tuesday, Ban said the Syrian government “continues to barrel bomb neighborhoods and systematically torture thousands of detainees.” [Dorar]
State Department spokesman John Kirby said in a statement published by the US Embassy in Damascus that the United States is ready to extend the cease-fire and work to expand the humanitarian aid operations, and to ask the Russians to influence the Syrian government. [Hawar]
The Coalition says it conducted 9 airstrikes on Daesh targets in Syria, including four near Mare’. The others were near Abu Kamal (1) and Deir Ez-Zor (3) in the east and near Raqqa (1). [InherentResolve]
Northeast (Hasaka, Raqqa)
Raqqa
Asked about the American flags spotted flying over the town of Tal Abyad, U.S. Army Maj. Josh Jacques, a U.S. Central Command spokesman, said, “I can confirm that last week U.S. forces operating in northern Syria used flags to denote their positions.”
The statement comes after theories about the flags circulated on social media for days. Before the Pentagon shared its statement, one activist with close ties to the Syrian Kurdish leadership told HuffPost that U.S. forces were present in the town and raised the flags to prevent potential bombardment by Turkey. The U.S. is not permitting any other groups ― including the Syrian Kurds ― to fly the U.S. flag, according to Col. John Dorian, a spokesman for the campaign against Daesh. [HuffPost]
Daesh publishes 2 photos of large quantities of alcohol it captured north of Raqqa. [DawaAlhaq]
Northwest (Aleppo, Idlib)
Jarabulus
An opposition group commander says Daesh recaptured Tal Al-Hajar village, southwest of Jarabulus. [ARA]
Daesh says it conducted a suicide attack on Iraqi troops in Tal Al-Hajar village. [A3maq]
Al-Bab
Local sources say 5 Turkish planes, in addition to tanks and artillery, heavily targeted 6 villages east of Al-Ra’i. The sources say the attack comes after Daesh left the villages, and was concentrated on Shawi, a primarily Kurdish village. [Hawar]
DaeshDaily comment. The PYD-backed Hawar claims that the attack is part of a Turkish plan to change the demography of the area. However, Daesh reports below say that it recaptured some of these villages.
An opposition group commander says Daesh launched a massive attack on areas east and south of Al-Ra’i and captured several villages. He says Daesh took advantage of the fact that the opposition groups were heading in the direction of Al-Bab. [ARA]
Daesh says it captured Sandi, Shawi Kabira, Shawi Saghira, and Al-Rawdha villages from Turkey-supported opposition groups. [JustPaste]
DaeshDaily comment. As is their usual practice, Daesh didn’t previously acknowledge losing these villages.
Later on, Daesh says it stopped an opposition group attack on Sandi and Al-Rawdha villages, damaging 4 SUVs. [A3maq]
Daesh issues a video of an attack on opposition groups east of Al-Ra’i. [A3maq]
Daesh says it captured Athariya and Ayoubiya villages east of Al-Ra’i. [A3maq]
Daesh says it captured Nahdha and Muthanna villages east of Al-Ra’i. [A3maq]
The Turkish military says its artillery destroyed 60 Daesh targets in north Aleppo. It also says Coalition planes killed 4 Daesh terrorists near Bahorta village. [Anadolu]
Opposition groups captured Yani Yaban, Jakka and Bahorta villages, west of Al-Ra’i. [Qasioun]
Daesh says it detonated several IEDs on opposition fighters after they entered Yani Yaban village. [A3maq]
The Kurdish Front Brigade, an SDF faction, says three of its fighters were killed in battles against Daesh in north Aleppo. [ARA]
Daesh issues a video of the suicide attack it conducted near Talaa village 2 days ago. [A3maq]
Azaz
Jaish Al-Thuwar, an SDF faction, says it killed more than 20 Daesh terrorists and wounded others while stopping the attack on Um Hawsh, Harbal, and Um Al-Qura yesterday, destroying 2 vehicle bombs, 2 machine gun mounted vehicles, and damaging a tank. It also says it advanced toward Wahshiyah and captured a military position. [Hawar]
Daesh publishes photos and a video of the battles in Um Al-Qura. [DawaAlhaq] [A3maq]
Daesh issues a video of a suicide attack with a vehicle bomb on “PKK fighters” in Um Al-Qura. [A3maq]
Daesh issues a video of a suicide attack with a vehicle bomb it conducted near Tal Qarah 2 days ago. [A3maq]
Manbij
On the second day of school, and after 3 years of closed schools, three children died when a Daesh IED exploded in a school in Manbij. The IED was big and destroyed a large part of the school, according to local activists. [BasNews]
Daesh says it killed four “PKK members” after a group of its terrorists sneaked to Battoushiyah village west of Manbij. [A3maq]
East (Deir Ez-Zor)
Syrian and Russian planes targeted Daesh locations near Tharda Mountain, killing or wounding several terrorists. [SyriaNow]
Daesh publishes photos of battles with Syrian troops in Hay Al-Muwadhafin in Deir Ez-Zor. [DawaAlhaq]
OTHER MIDDLE EAST/NORTH AFRICA REPORTS
North Africa
Egypt
A security source says two soldiers were killed when an ABM IED exploded on their armored vehicle in Hasana in Central Sinai. [VetoGate]
Security forces launched a major campaign in more than 20 areas in North Sinai. [ElWatan]
Media sources close to ABM say twelve Egyptian soldiers were killed or wounded in different attacks in North Sinai. [DawaAlhaq]
One soldier was killed and another wounded, and a terrorist killed in clashes in Rafah. [ElWatan]
A 32-year-old woman was shot and wounded by armed men in Shallaq village in Sheikh Zuweid. [VetoGate]
A soldier was wounded by a sniper in the Kharouba area, south of Sheikh Zuweid. [VetoGate]
Libya
Northeast
A military source says Libyan planes destroyed a weapons storehouse in the Qawarsha area. [Libya24]
Central coast
The Misrata Hospital says 560 Government of National Accord (GNA) soldiers have been killed and 2,650 wounded since the start of the military operations against Daesh in Sirte. [Wasat]
The Libyan National Army (LNA) spokesman says “Misrata planes” mistakenly bombed families in Jufra, killing five civilians and wounding others. He says the planes were targeting an LNA unit in the area. [Libya24]
Local activists say six women and a child were killed and three other civilians wounded in the airstrike. [Wasat]
A spokesman of the air force in Misrata (a GNA Military unit) refuted the reports and says his planes conducted recon sorties, none of which was in that area. [Wasat]
The GNA Military spokesman says his troops freed three North Korean citizens, two Indians (Sirte University professors), one Palestinian student, and five Libyans who were held captive by Daesh in Hay 3 in Sirte. [Wasat]
A medical source says a GNA commander was killed in the battles in Hay 3 in Sirte. [Wasat]
Other countries
Nigeria
Boko Haram terrorists Monday afternoon ambushed a military escort in Borno State, killing five civilians and injuring three soldiers in the attack.
The Director of Army Public Relations (DAPR), Col. Sani Usman, said suspected elements of the remnants of the terrorists who were foraging for food, ambushed troops of Operation Lafi Dole escorting commercial vehicles from Damboa to Maiduguri. “Unfortunately, five civilians lost their lives in the attack and another died on the way to the hospital. Three soldiers also sustained injuries,” Usman stated. [AllAfrica]
Daesh says it launched a surprise attack on an African Union convoy, killing more than forty soldiers and wounding others, and capturing large quantities of weapons and ammunition in Malam Fatori town in Borno by the border with Niger and Chad. [A3maq]
SOCIAL MEDIA
Videos of the Day
Shirqat
Video purportedly shows Iraqi forces massing near Shirqat. [YouTube]
Video purportedly shows an Iraqi and PMF column advancing on Shirqat. [Twitter]
Video purportedly filmed inside an Iraqi Army vehicle advancing on Shirqat. [YouTube]
Video purportedly showing Iraqi troops first entering Shirqat area. [Twitter]
A video of Iraqi forces in a battle near Shirqat [YouTube]
Photos purportedly showing PMF fighters in newly captured territory in Shirqat area. [Twitter]
Photo purportedly shows Shirqat residents receiving Iraqi officers. [Twitter]
Image purportedly shows Hasan Ahmad Mani’ from Hawija, reportedly the first Iraqi soldier to be killed in the assault on Shirqat. [Twitter]
Anbar
Falluja
Video purportedly shows first family to return to their homes in Falluja. [Twitter]
Video purports to show displaced residents returning to Falluja. [Twitter]
Jazeera Ramadi
Video purportedly shows PMF commander “Abu Azrael” with PMF fighters in the Jazeera Ramadi area. [YouTube]
Kirkuk
Hawija
Video of the site of an IED blast targeting residents fleeing Daesh in Hawija. [Twitter]
