September 22, 2016
Shirqat Liberated (Yalla)
Today’s Major Developments
Al-Abadi says winning in Mosul will be easier than other battles. […]
US Army reported seeking 500 more US troops for Mosul campaign. […]
Iraq takes Shirqat back. […]
Daesh takes heavy casualties in failed Qayara counter-attacks. […]
Daesh fighters in subdistrict south of Mosul city reportedly fleeing Iraq. […]
Daesh in increasing disarray in Mosul based on local reports. […]
Turkey has plan for capturing Al-Bab, but its militia allies still struggling near Al-Ra’i. […]
Daesh teen suicide bomber kills many Syrian opposition leaders in Daraa. […]
REPORTS FROM IRAQ
NATIONAL NEWS
Prime Minister Abadi met with Vice President Joe Biden in New York. Biden says the United States informed everyone that the Mosul liberation battle is an Iraqi battle, and no one will move, even to help, unless Prime Minister Abadi first approves. [Rudaw]
Prime Minister Abadi requested in the General Assembly meeting in New York that the international community urge Turkey to withdraw its forces from Iraq. He says these troops hinder the Iraqi forces’ efforts to liberate Mosul. Abadi also repeated his promise to liberate Ninewa this year. [Sumaria] [Sumaria]
In an interview with CNN, Abadi says the liberation of Mosul will be easier than the previous battles because Daesh has less support in Mosul than in other areas. [SotKurdistan]
The Wall Street Journal says the US Army wants to get White House approval to send 500 additional soldiers to help the Iraqi forces in the Mosul campaign. [Sumaria]
US Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter says there is an understanding that the local police will maintain order in Mosul city after the liberation. [Sumaria]
Minister of Foreign Affairs Ibrahim Al-Jaafari says in New York that Daesh now only controls only 10% of Iraqi territory. [ROJ]
The US envoy to the Coalition Brett McGurk, speaking at a meeting on the sidelines of the annual UN gathering of world leaders, said the Coalition was already taking steps to ensure there would be no repeat of the abuses seen in the wake of the recapture of Iraq’s Falluja in June. [Sumaria]
President Masoum met in his office with the German Minister of Defense, Ursula von der Leyen and discussed the latest political and military developments and the preparations for the Mosul campaign according to a statement from Masoum’s office. The Minister says Germany is ready to help train and equip Iraqi forces. [Sumaria]
The UN says 54 per cent of planned programs in Iraq have either shut down or could not begin at all due to severe underfunding. [UNOCHA]
A member of the Security Committee in Baghdad Provincial Council says political disputes were the reasons behind the halt of a security project that was supposed to deploy recon balloons around Baghdad. He says political interference stopped many security projections around Baghdad. [BasNews]
DaeshDaily comment. What happened to the much ballyhooed project to build a wall around Baghdad?
The Coalition says it conducted 11 airstrikes on Daesh targets in Iraq, in or near Ramadi (2) and Baghdadi (1), and in Mosul (4) and Qayara (4). [InherentResolve]
BAGHDAD
Security-related incidents reported
Center (Rusafa, Karkh, etc.)
An MoI source says a security unit captured 3 armed men who shot at a liquor store on Sa’adoon Street. Three civilians were wounded in the attack. [Mada]
North (Tarmiya, Taji, etc.)
A police source says five civilians were wounded when an IED exploded near a supermarket in Rashidiya. [Sumaria]
East (Sadr City, New Baghdad, etc.)
An MoI source says a security unit defused an IED that was planted at the door of a school headmaster in Mashtal. [Mada]
A EOD unit defused an IED near a busy market in Sadr City. [BOC Facebook Page]
South (Dora, Yusufiyah, Mahmudiya, etc.)
An MoI source says one policeman was killed and four wounded when an IED exploded on a police vehicle in Albu Aitha village in Dora. [Mada]
An MoI source says two people were killed and eight wounded when an IED exploded near a wholesale market in Abu Dsheer in Dora. [Mada]
Iraqi Army 23rd brigade destroyed 2 Daesh guesthouses in the Sour area. It also found 2 IEDs and other explosives in two other areas in the south Baghdad military sector. [BOC Facebook Page]
An MoI source says one person was killed and seven wounded when an IED exploded near a commercial area in Mahmudiya. [Mada]
Southwest (Rasheed, etc.)
An MoI source says two PMF fighters were killed and four wounded when an IED exploded on their vehicle in Rasheed. [Mada]
Iraqi Army 55th brigade found 2 IEDs and other explosives in the Amya area. [BOC Facebook Page]
West (Ghazaliya, Abu Ghraib, etc.)
An MoI says the owner of a medicine wholesale store was killed when a sticky IED exploded under his vehicle in Tobchi. [Mada]
Total Baghdad incidents reported: 11 (Includes only incidents reported)
ANBAR
Falluja
A tribal PMF commander says security forces captured 10 Daesh terrorists who were trying to sneak into Qarma with displaced families. [Mada]
He also says security forces launched a large search campaign in Qarma after getting intelligence about a Daesh group in Qarma and arrested 6 terrorists. [Maalomah]
Iraqi forces found 8 IEDs, an explosives vest, and other explosives in the Sijar area. [BOC Facebook Page]
Ramadi
The Anbar Operations Commander says the IAA attacked Daesh positions in the Albu Dhiab area, killing 7 terrorists and destroying 40 IEDs, a rocket launcher, and a mortar unit. He also says Daesh terrorists are fleeing in large numbers from areas north of Ramadi after Iraqi forces advanced 10 km (6 miles) in the area. However, he says Daesh had booby-trapped all of the main and side roads in the Albu Assaf, Albu Ali Al-Jassem, and Albu Dhiab areas. [Maalomah] [Maalomah]
A tribal PMF commander says Iraqi forces, supported by Coalition planes and IAA helicopters captured Bravo camp in Jazeera Ramadi, killing tens of terrorists. [Mada]
The Anbar Operations Commander says Coalition planes destroyed a Daesh oil tanker truck and a storehouse in the Albu Assaf area west of Ramadi, killing the terrorists inside. [Sumaria]
A report about civilians in Ramadi who defuse IEDs for a living. They charge $300-$700 to defuse a house and $200 to defuse a car. [Niqash]
Hit/Haditha
A tribal PMF commander says Iraqi forces cleared the Jard and Taysa areas between Jazeera Baghdadi and Hit, killing 4 terrorists and destroying 3 guesthouses. He also says Iraqi forces are constructing a floating bridge between Jazeera Baghdadi and Jazeera Hit. It says there was strong resistance from Daesh in Jazeera Baghdadi, but that most of the terrorists fled to Anah and Al-Qa’im. [Mada]
A Tribal PMF commander says Iraqi forces liberated the Jubba area 30 km (19 miles) north of Hit and north of Baghdadi after heavy battles, killing tens of Daesh terrorists. [BasNews]
DaeshDaily comment. Not to be impolite, but we seem to recall that Jubba was also liberated some months ago and wonder why it has been “liberated” again. Or perhaps the problem is the inflation of language, which causes every victory in every village to be described as a “liberation.” For example:
An Iraqi Army 7th division source says Iraqi forces liberated another village in Jazeera Baghdadi. [Sumaria]
The Mayor of Haditha says Daesh lost the initiative and will not be able to attack Hit or Haditha from now on. [Sumaria]
Rutba/Western Anbar
A security source says the IFP stopped a Daesh attack on an IFP headquarters 5 km (3 miles) west of Rutba, destroying 3 vehicle bombs and killing the suicide terrorists inside. [Sumaria]
SALAHUDDIN
Shirqat
The Joint Operations Command JOC issued a statement saying Iraqi forces, supported by Iraqi and Coalition planes, have fully liberated Shirqat District. [Mada]
The JOC had announced earlier that Iraqi forces captured Shirqat city, and raised the Iraqi flag over the district government building. A security source said that Iraqi forces also captured a police station southwest of Shirqat. [Mada] [Mada]
Iraqi Army 35th armored brigade destroyed 7 Daesh vehicle bombs and 4 IEDs, and killed 12 terrorists including a suicide bomber, in the south Shirqat military sector. Iraqi Army 34th armored brigade destroyed 8 IEDs in the Shirqat area. Salahuddin Operations Command defused more than 60 IEDs in the Shirqat area. The IAA destroyed 2 Daesh vehicle bombs south of Shirqat. Coalition planes launched several airstrikes on Daesh targets in the Shirqat area, destroying 4 machine gun mounted vehicles, 6 boats, and 3 ferries, killing more than 50 terrorists, including 2 snipers. [MoD Website]
The PMF Press says PMFs Explosive Ordinance Disposal defused 11 vehicle bombs near Shirqat’s district government building, in addition to 76 IEDs on the road between Shirqat and Baiji. [Maalomah]
The Chairman of the Salahuddin Provincial Council says the return of the displaced families to Shirqat will start next week. [Mada]
Iraqi forces captured a Daesh member, who tried to disguise himself by shaving his beard, in his house in Shirqat after getting information from local residents. [Mada]
DaeshDaily comment. The razor has been an essential part of Daesh terrorists’ military kit in all liberated areas.
A security source says Iraqi forces found an underground Katyusha rocket storehouse in a shop in Shirqat city. [Maalomah]
Iraqi forces destroyed 3 Daesh vehicles and a hideout in the Tilul Al-Baj area. [MoD Website]
Daesh says it attacked an Iraqi Army barracks in the Tilul Al-Baj area, killing nine soldiers and destroying a Russian tank. [A3maq] [JustPaste]
Daesh says it destroyed an Iraqi Army personnel carrier with an IED on the road between Baghdad and Mosul west of Shirqat, killing the soldiers inside. [A3maq]
Samarra
Iraqi forces defused 2 IEDs that were planted in the house of the mukhtar (local official) in the Qarat area in Samarra district. [MoD Website]
NINEWA
Qayara/Makhmur
Ninewa Emergency Police stopped a Daesh attack on Izhailila village southwest of Qayara. [MoD Website]
Troops of the Iraqi 71st Infantry repelled a two-pronged Daesh attack in the Qayara area, killing 40 Daesh fighters, a Ninewa Operations source said. It also says Iraqi forces didn’t sustain any casualties in the attack. [Mada] [Mawsleya] [Mawsleya]
Thirty Daesh members were killed by Coalition airstrikes as they attempted to attack Iraqi Army troops north of Qayara, a Ninewa Operations source said. Coalition planes also killed two Daesh members in a strike near the village of Khabata north of Qayara, a Ninewa Operations source said. [Mawsleya] [Mawsleya]
Daesh received 24 bodies of its slain fighters in the village of Makouk after its earlier failed attack in the Qayara subdistrict, a local source said. Sources also reported the bodies of “several” Daesh fighters floating in the Tigris River after the attack. [Mawsleya] [Mawsleya]
122 Arab families returned to their homes in Gwer subdistrict on Wednesday, according to the Mayor of Makhmur District, Ruzkar Muhammad Ismail, who attributed the delayed return of displaced persons to lack of services in their home areas. Other families from the 400 families who were originally displaced from the area will also return soon, the mayor said. [SotAlIraq]
Shura/Hammam Alil
Nearly all Daesh members in the Hammam Al-Alil area reportedly fled in recent days and hours, heading through the desert toward Syria and eventually for Turkey, according to sources in Mosul. [Karemlash]
Coalition warplanes destroyed large numbers of Daesh vehicles and killed many terrorists in Safina village in Shura subdistrict. The Coalition also destroyed a bridge west of Shirqat in order to prevent Daesh terrorists from escaping. [MoD Website]
Ninewa Operations Command says Coalition warplanes killed 160 Daesh terrorists and destroyed large numbers of vehicles and machinery in Safina. [Mada]
Mosul
Mosul campaign
The deputy chairman of Ninewa Provincial Council, Nur al-Din Qablan has repeated earlier Provincial Council remarks that the US is resurfacing Qayara Airfield, explaining that US engineers are present at the base to prepare the airfield for the Mosul operations. Combat troops are not currently at the base, he said, but he added that “additional military forces” would arrive “in the coming days.” The deputy chairman said he had no information about reported Daesh chemical attacks on the base. [AYN]
A security source says Coalition planes destroyed a Daesh security headquarters in Hay Al-Dandan in Mosul, killing 10 terrorists. [Sumaria]
Warplanes were reported in the skies over Mosul Thursday night and the sounds of explosions were heard throughout the city in what appear to be heavy air raids on Daesh targets. [Mawsleya]
Conditions in Mosul
News of the capture of Shirqat was greeted with joy by many Mosul residents who took it as a sign that their freedom from Daesh rule is nearing, according to local sources in the city. Daesh rule is facing a “state of collapse” in Mosul sources said, which would be intensified by the news of Daesh’s loss of Shirqat. [Mawsleya]
Daesh is vacating its local command centers in Mosul as well as emptying its weapons and explosives from the churches it had been using as storehouses, according to local sources who said that Daesh feared Mosul residents would reveal their locations and the Daesh sites would become targets for Coalition airstrikes. The weapons and supplies were relocated to other areas, the sources said. Daesh members are in a state of fear, the sources said, fearing revenge by residents with the advance of Iraqi troops as well as a potential uprising in Mosul against Daesh rule. [Mawsleya]
Daesh has announced a nighttime security alert in Mosul and has deployed its fighters to various residential areas in response to the quickening pace of assassinations and disappearances of Daesh members on the part of the local anti-Daesh resistance, according to local sources. The sources say that Daesh elements in Mosul appear incapable of dealing with the pressure of increasing disarray and resistance inside Mosul and the approaching Iraqi troops. After many experienced Daesh cadre left in advance of the anticipated assault, those who remain are naïve and inexperienced, the sources said. [Mawsleya]
Parts of Mosul appeared nearly empty Thursday as Daesh hunted for its own members who fled the areas south of Mosul recently recaptured from Daesh. Meanwhile many of Daesh’s imams have reportedly fled their mosques, leaving them empty. Daesh presence in Mosul is also weakened by its deployment of its intelligence and fighting assets to the south to face the advancing Iraqi troops. [Karemlash]
Daesh has replaced many imams of the local mosques that it controls in Mosul in a bid to convince residents to fight alongside them against Iraqi troops when the operations begin. Several non-Iraqi imams have begun appearing to preach at Mosul mosques exhorting the people to join with Daesh and cursing those who have not pledged allegiance to the group. [Mawsleya]
Several residents of Mosul have died or become ill due to Daesh’s importing and distribution of expired foods, according to a Moslawi who fled the city and turned himself over to Iraqi troops in Qayara. The potentially dangerous foods are causing fear among Mosul residents who have no choice but to consume them amid severe food shortages in the city. [Sumer]
In a bid to stem the rising price of the US dollar in Mosul, Daesh has allowed currency traders to operate Internet devices according to strict conditions, local sources said. Traders are permitted to access the Internet only on a single computer and not on any mobile telephone devices, which the sources said was intended to prevent the spread of news on the deteriorating conditions of Daesh’s rule in Mosul. [Mawsleya]
Daesh stoned three youths in Mosul to death for wearing jerseys of footballer Lionel Messi’s team while playing football, according to an activist in the city. Other Mosul residents fleeing the city have reported that Daesh threatened heavy lashings or possible execution for anyone caught performing any of a list of certain forbidden activities, such as watching the news on television, listening to music, smoking, or using the Internet. [Ghad]
Kata’eb Al-Mosul says one of its snipers shot and killed a Daesh terrorist near the Sahaji area. [KM Facebook Page]
Daesh says it targeted Peshmerga positions with 20 mortars in different areas of Kafraj Camp. [JustPaste]
DIYALA
Muqdadiya/Abu Saida
A security source says three bystanders were killed after clashes re-erupted between 2 tribes in Abu Saida. The source says the local police asked for military reinforcements from Baghdad to control the situation. [Maalomah]
Daesh says it destroyed an Iraqi Army vehicle in the Isaiwid area in Muqdadiya, killing or wounding the soldiers inside. [JustPaste]
Northern Diyala (Kifri, Khanaqin, etc.)
A security source says a PMF fighter was wounded when an IED exploded on a PMF vehicle on the Imamayn road. [Sumaria]
A provincial official says the return of 750 displaced families to Udhaim was temporarily delayed because of the security situation there. [Sumaria]
The Diyala Police chief says an emergency unit defused 5 IEDs in 3 areas in Udhaim, near the Salahuddin border. [Sumaria]
A local source says an Iraqi Army unit destroyed a Daesh vehicle bomb near Udhaim Dam, killing the suicide terrorists inside. The source also says one soldier was slightly wounded in the explosion. [Buratha]
Daesh says one of its Iraqi suicide terrorists attacked a “PMF gathering” near the main gate of the Udhaim Dam, killing or wounding several fighters. [JustPaste]
KIRKUK
Kirkuk
The displaced people committee in Kirkuk provincial government refuted the reports that they had forced the displaced people to return to the liberated areas, and says the return is happening based on instructions from Prime Minister Abadi. [Mada]
The Manager of Laylan subdistrict says the security committee in Kirkuk provincial council informed displaced families from liberated areas in Anbar, Diyala, and Salahuddin that they should return to their houses. The Mayor of Baiji issued a statement yesterday asking the Kirkuk government not to force the displaced families to return. A member of the Falluja District Council accused the Governor of Kirkuk of kicking out displaced people from Anbar in an inhumane manner. [Sumaria] [Sumaria]
KURDISTAN
The KRG president, Masoud Barzani met in his office with the UK Minister of Defense, Michael Fallon, and the UK Ambassador to Iraq, the UK Council to Erbil, and other officials, to discuss the war against Daesh and the UK’s support for the Peshmerga, as well as UK plans to support the displaced people. [BasNews]
The KRG’s Prime Minister also met with the Minister and discussed the Mosul campaign. [BasNews]
The German Minister of Defense arrived to Erbil from her meeting in Baghdad to meet with the KRG president and Prime Minister to discuss Mosul and Germany’s support for the Peshmerga. [BasNews]
REPORTS FROM TURKEY
Six people were reported injured after a rocket fired by Daesh hit the center of the Turkish town of Kilis, just north of the northwest Syria border. [BirGun]
Following the first rocket attack, in which seven people were wounded, six of them children, there was a second attack around 5 pm in which two explosions were heard and one person was injured. [Cumhuriyet]
Anadolu says the six people wounded in Daesh shelling on Kilis were Syrian. [Anadolu]
Turkish security sources say security forces raided 20 locations in 5 neighborhoods on the Asian side of Istanbul and captured 16 Daesh suspects. [ARA]
Reporter Doğu Eroğlu of the left-wing Bir Gün newspaper has pointed out that the Turkish authorities had been aware for thirteen months that Daesh was using a building in Ankara as a training center, even though the impression was given when it was raided on August 26 (previously reported here) that it had just been detected. Eroğlu has unearthed a report with the heading “The Takfiri/Samanpazarı Group,” sent by Ankara police to the public prosecutor in July 2015, in which reference is made to the activities in the building at 51 Ulucanlar Street. [BirGun]
REPORTS FROM SYRIA
Contradicting earlier information, the Turkish Armed Forces have various action plans for moving into the Syrian city of Al-Bab. Alongside the Special Forces (Maroon Berets) directly attached to the Chief of the General Staff, warplanes and tanks, various combatant infantry units attached to the land forces will also enter Syria.
An official said that “A more comprehensive ground force is needed to move into Al-Bab. Ground elements undoubtedly form part of the plan of action. The same official said that Turkey had no unilateral plan of action with regard to Daesh’s headquarters city of Raqqa.
The first target, prior to reaching Al-Bab, is the town of Dabiq, which is of special ideological importance to Daesh. However, intelligence from the area shows that Daesh has dug many trenches around Dabiq, there are mobile anti-tank weapons and hundreds of mines, and IEDs have been planted around the town. [Hurriyet]
Secular opposition newspaper Cumhuriyet published an article in response to the previous day’s report in Hürriyet that Turkey was preparing to dispatch its infantry to Syria:
The infantry will of necessity enter the Syrian quagmire. The Turkish Armed Forces are planning to bring in various combat infantry units with the aim of capturing Al-Bab, located 30 km (19 miles) from the border. “An official” told Uğur Ergan of Hürriyet that “A more comprehensive ground force is needed to move into Al-Bab. Ground elements undoubtedly form part of the plan of action.” In the light of intelligence suggesting that the nearer town of Dabiq, from which it is said Daesh will be cleared before Al-Bab, has been strongly fortified, a fierce battle is expected there. [Cumhuriyet] [Full Article]
DaeshDaily comment. We thank our correspondent in Turkey for translating several reports for us today.
An Erdogan spokesman says in a TV interview Turkey will not participate in the Raqqa liberation if the YPG takes part in the battles. [Hawar]
DaeshDaily comment. It occurs to us that victory in Raqqa would be more meaningful if it is achieved by the Syrian Democratic Forces, including the YPG, than by the Turkish Army and its friends.
Turkey’s President Erdogan says in New York that the US sent 2 planes loaded with weapons to Kobane three days ago. [Anadolu]
An SDF source says American military officials met with SDF officials in Yabsa village, 5 km (3 miles) west of Jarabulus and assured the SDF that the United States would not allow Turkey to advance toward the SDF controlled areas in Manbij and Tal Abyad. [BasNews]
On a busy day in the air, the Coalition says it conducted 16 airstrikes on Daesh targets in Syria, including seven near Mare’ (7). The others were in or near Manbij (1); Raqqa (2) and Shaddadi (1); Deir Ez-Zor (4) and Albu Kamal (1). [InherentResolve]
Northeast (Hasaka, Raqqa)
Hasaka
A journalist who works for Rudaw TV was beaten by the Asayesh in Hasaka while she was trying to visit her family. [ARA]
The Director of the International Human Rights Organization in Syria says the 3rd group of 1,500 Iraqi refugees trapped in camps in Hasaka have been stopped from going back to Iraq at this time, due to a request from the Iraqi Government based on its military operations in Shirqat. [ZamanAlWasl]
Raqqa
The Turkish Army is targeting YPG positions in a village 1 km west of Tal Abyad with heavy machine guns. [Hawar]
A local activist says Coalition planes dropped leaflets on Raqqa, containing the photos of Daesh’s slain spokesman. [EnabBaladi]
Daesh says it killed “two PKK members” and destroyed a machine gun mounted vehicle with 2 IEDs west of Ain Eissa. [A3maq]
Daesh issues a propaganda video about its complaint office in Raqqa city. [A3maq]
DaeshDaily comment. Which prompts a philosophical question: When you have a reputation for executing people who complain, how many people come to the complaint office?
Daesh publishes photos of a farm in Raqqa. [DawaAlhaq]
Northwest (Aleppo, Idlib)
Jarabulus
The PYD backed Hawar issues a video of Turkey backed opposition group fighters torturing a 15-year-old boy from Shiyoukh town in Kobane, in order to force him to confess that he was with Daesh. The video that was shot in an unknown location also shows an old man handcuffed and blindfolded in the same room. [Hawar]
DaeshDaily comment. If the boy is not with Daesh, he has a reason to join it now.
A Turkish official says 2,857 people have returned to their houses in Jarabulus so far since it was liberated from Daesh. [Anadolu]
Al-Bab
The Turkish military says its F-16s destroyed several Daesh targets near Al-Ra’i, killing many terrorists. [Anadolu]
However, Daesh says it recaptured Sandara, East Talaar, and West Talaar, west of Al-Ra’i. [A3maq]
Daesh publishes 2 photos of vehicles it had captured in the area. [JustPaste]
An opposition group commander confirmed that Daesh recaptured Sandara, East Talaar, and West Talaar villages. [ARA]
DaeshDaily comment. It is increasingly noticeable that even with the much-touted participation of the Turkish military, the Turkey-supported opposition groups are not exactly sweeping Daesh out of northern Syria. If they can’t clear them out of the Al-Ra’i border area, how can they expect to take Al-Bab?
Azaz
The Turkish military says opposition groups launched an attack to regain the areas they have lost to Daesh in the Al-Ra’i-Azaz military sector. It concedes that Daesh captured Talaar, Kadrish, and Bahorta. It says its opposition groups couldn’t regain control of 4 villages and other areas east of Al-Ra’ because of Daesh’s violent resistance.
However, it also says Turkish planes launched 20 airstrikes near the battle area, killing 40 Daesh terrorists, and destroying 7 buildings and a heavy machine gun. It also says Turkish artillery destroyed 150 Daesh targets. [ARA]
Daesh targeted Um Hawsh again with chemical filled shells. [Hawar]
Daesh staged a suicide bomb attack in a village near Azaz. Ten FSA fighters injured in the attack were taken by ambulance to Kilis, Turkey for treatment. [Cumhuriyet]
Daesh says it detonated a parked car bomb on an opposition group convoy near Shamarikh village northeast of Azaz. [A3maq]
An opposition group commander said a Daesh vehicle bomb exploded near a military barrier in Shamarikh village, killing three civilians and three opposition group fighters. Turkish artillery in Al-Ra’i city targeted Daesh positions in Dabiq with more than 40 shells, in addition to several rockets. [Azaz]
Daesh says a man was killed in a Turkish shelling on Dabiq. [A3maq]
Manbij
Daesh issues a video of battles with the “PKK” in the Khasfa area, south of Manbij. [A3maq]
Other Northwest Syria reports
Daesh issues photos of burning expired medicine in Maslama city. [DawaAlhaq]
Daesh publishes 3 photos of its terrorists in their “free time” in the Draihim area, 65 km southeast of Aleppo. [DawaAlhaq]
East (Deir Ez-Zor)
A Daesh hisbah terrorist beat up a woman in Mayadin city after accusing her of violating the Daesh dress code. Daesh also launched a campaign and arrested many young men without giving any reasons. [Qasioun]
Syrian planes targeted Daesh locations in the Tharda Mountain area, the Panorama area, and Halabiya village in Deir Ez-Zor Governorate. [SyriaNow]
Syrian Army and allied militias stopped a Daesh attack on the Deir Ez-Zor military airport and got back some of the positions they have lost to Daesh. [SyriaNow]
South (Rif Damashq, Suwayda, Daraa, etc.)
A local activist says a Daesh suicide terrorist detonated himself in the police station in Inkhil, killing a Minister in the anti-Assad Interim Syrian Government, and wounding its “Governor” of Daraa and two others, in addition to killing or wounding other senior officials and commanders. [ARA]
Jawad Aby Hatab, the head of the Interim Syrian Government, says two ministers were killed in the attack, accusing the Syrian Government of the explosion. [EnabBaladi]
Al-Hamza Division, a Free Syrian Army faction, issued a statement saying nine of its leaders were killed in the explosion. [EnabBaladi]
Local sources say the attack was conducted by a 15-year-old boy disguised as a beggar. The attack was conducted by Khaled Army, Daesh’s affiliate in Daraa. [ZamanAlWasl]
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says eleven people were killed and tens wounded in the attack. [SyriaHR]
Daesh’s version says one of its Syrian suicide bombers detonated his suicide vest at an opposition leaders’ meeting in Inkhil city in Daraa, killing or wounding fifty people. [DawaAlhaq]
A local activist says Khaled Army, a Daesh affiliate, launched a massive attack from 2 sides on Ain Dhikr city in Daraa, but opposition groups stopped the attack. [ARA]
Syrian troops destroyed a Daesh vehicle east of Daraa, killing the terrorists inside. [SyriaNow]
Daesh issues photos of one of its “calls for Islam” for children in the Al-Hajar Al-Aswad area south of Damascus. [DawaAlhaq]
OTHER MIDDLE EAST/NORTH AFRICA REPORTS
North Africa
Egypt
Daesh says
It destroyed an M113 armored vehicle with an IED between Sheikh Zuweid and Joura village.
Its snipers killed an Egyptian soldier in the Tawil security barrier near Karm Al-Qawadis and another soldier near Al-Salam village east of Arish.
It detonated an IED on an Egyptian Army patrol near Rafah Port.
It destroyed an Egyptian Army heavy machine gun near Wifaq village south of Rafah.
It clashed with the Egyptian Army near the coast area in north Sinai, killing or wounding several soldiers.
It damaged an Egyptian Army minesweeper near the Haq Hasan area. [JustPaste]
A security source says ABM terrorists shot at a police patrol near the post office in Arish, killing one policeman and wounding two. [VetoGate]
Eyewitnesses say IBM terrorists kidnapped a 29-year-old man near his house in Sheikh Zuweid, after accusing him of cooperating with security forces. [VetoGate]
ABM terrorists kidnapped 2 more young men, one from south Sheikh Zuweid, and the other from south Rafah. [VetoGate]
Eyewitnesses say takfiri terrorists broke into a state-owned water company in the Ahrash area in Rafah and burned it down in order to prevent the company from providing security forces with bottled water. [VetoGate]
A policeman was wounded when an IED exploded on his patrol on the coastal road in Rafah. [VetoGate]
Tribal sources say ABM snipers tried to attack security forces from a school in Sheikh Zuweid, but Counter Terrorism forces clashed with them, forcing them to flee. [ElWatan]
Libya
Northeast
The LNA spokesman says the battles are still ongoing in Qawarsha, but the landmines and trapped families are hindering the advances of the LNA in the area. [Libya24]
Central coast
Daesh says GNA “militias,” supported by American planes and extensive artillery shelling, tried to advance on its positions in Sirte. Daesh says it stopped the attack, killing thirty soldiers and wounding more than sixty, and destroying several vehicles. Daesh says the battles are still ongoing. [JustPaste]
A medical source says eight GMA troops were killed and fifteen others wounded in the Giza area in Sirte. [Wasat]
Later on, the field hospital in Sirte says two more soldiers were killed and ten wounded in Hay 3 in Sirte. [AfriGate]
A GNA military commander says a Daesh Egyptian sniper was captured after he was wounded in Hay 3 in Sirte. [Wasat]
Other countries
Lebanon
The Lebanese Army issued a statement saying it conducted a security operation in Ayn Al-Hilweh Camp for Palestinian refugees in Saida and captured Imad Yeseen, the Daesh “emir” of the camp. [Sumaria]
SOCIAL MEDIA
Photos show crowds cheering as the Iraqi flag is raised over the mayoralty building and the hospital in central Shirqat on Thursday. [Mawsleya]
Photos purport to show weapons and flag seized from Daesh in Shirqat. [Twitter]
Videos of the Day
A video of Iraqi airstrikes on Daesh targets in Salahuddin [MoD]
Video purports to show the “moment” of Shirqat’s liberation from Daesh rule. [YouTube]
More purported footage of Iraqi troops sweeping through Shirqat. [YouTube]
Footage purports to show PMFs (Saraya Al-Salam) engaging Daesh in Shirqat. [YouTube]
Video of Iraqi troops with captured Daesh chemical weapons (toxic gas) shells in Shabali village near Shirqat. [Mawsleya]
Video purports to show fighting between Daesh and PMFs (15 Shaaban Brigade), location unspecified. [YouTube]
DAESH MEDIA
Daesh audio newsletter for today [JustPaste]
Daesh issues a propaganda video of its operations in south Ninewa. The video shows an attack on a seemingly abandoned Iraqi Army barracks. Daesh claimed the Iraqi soldiers fled before the attack. The video also shows a terrorist from Belgium sending a message to his family, asking for forgiveness before he commits a suicide attack. It also shows 2 teenagers, one of them Jordanian, committing suicide attacks on the Iraqi Army, in addition to other attacks. [DawaAlhaq]
Daesh issues a propaganda video about one of its terrorists from Gaza who was killed in Syria. [DawaAlhaq]
Daesh issued a propaganda video about its operations in Yemen. [DawaAlhaq]
