An Update On ISIS Activities

April 25, 2016

April 25, 2016

Al-Sa'a Church

Today’s Major Developments

 

Baghdad braces for showdown Tuesday CoR session, Sadrist demonstrations.

Daesh perpetrates another massacre in East Baghdad

. . . and throws people trying to escape Falluja into the river.

Iraqi forces move north from Hit, capture most of Dolab near Baghdadi.

F-16s attack Daesh in Rutba.

Violent clashes break out between Peshmerga and Shia PMFs in Tooz.

Coalition bombs break up a big Daesh meeting in Mosul.

Daesh blows up a Catholic church in Mosul.

Turkey facing hostile citizens in Kilis due to Daesh shelling.

 

REPORTS FROM IRAQ

 

NATIONAL NEWS

Political developments

Saleem Al-Jubouri issued a statement calling on Prime Minister Al-Abadi to attend a CoR session on Tuesday, called to discuss the cabinet change and the CoR leadership. [Mada]

Al-Jubouri issued a statement asking all MPs to attend the session. [Mada]

The sit-in MPs say they won’t attend Tuesday’s session if it is led by Al-Jubouri. [Mada]

A Kurdish MP says the Kurdish CoR alliance will attend the Tuesday session if the session is “united”. [Mada]

An ISCI MP says the Tuesday session will have a quorum even without the sit-in MPs. [Mada]

 

A political source says Moqtada Al-Sadr arrived back in Baghdad, apparently to lead the demonstrations he called for on Tuesday. [Mada]

Sadr has refuted some media reports about postponing the demonstrations. [Mada]

DaeshDaily comment. A lot of people, including hard line Sadrists, got angry with Sadr’s sudden decision to withdraw his MPs from the CoR sit-in. Later, Sadr said “the Sadrists bloc doesn’t represent me and I don’t represent it,” which can’t be taken seriously, as the Al-Ahrar bloc has always obeyed the strict orders of Al-Sadr. Maybe he is trying now to regain the popularity he gained recently as a reform supporter, even among secular people.

 

Security developments

A member of Baghdad Provincial Council’s security committee says Baghdad Operations Command issued a high level alert preparing for Tuesday’s demonstrations. [Maalomah]

 

The Baghdad Governor, a Sadrist, announced Tuesday is an official day off in Baghdad, preparing for the demonstrations. [Mada]

 

Coalition military forces conducted 11 strikes Sunday against Daesh targets in Iraq. Airstrike locations in Anbar included Falluja (5) and Baghdadi; one airstrike destroyed a tunnel system near Hawija; there were two strikes near Mosul, one in Sinjar, and another in Waleed on the Syrian border. [CJTF]

 

BAGHDAD

Daesh says one of its suicide terrorists detonated his explosives vest on Army soldiers and Shia PMFs gathering in Baghdad Al-Jadida in east Baghdad, killing or wounding 70 of them. [JustPaste]

Daesh publishes photos of a masked terrorist, identifying him as the one who detonated himself in Baghdad Al-Jadida. [JustPaste]

An MoI source says seven people were killed and 31 wounded in the Baghdad Al-Jadida explosion. Earlier reports said it was a car bomb parked near a movie theater, but the MoI said it was a suicide terrorist. [Mada] [Mada]

A security source says an Iraqi police captain and two of his associates were killed when he tried to stop the Daesh suicide terrorist in Baghdad Al-Jadida. [Mawazin]

Video of the aftermath of the suicide attack in Baghdad Al-Jadida [YouTube] [YouTube] [YouTube]

 

Other security-related incidents reported

Center (Rusafa, Karkh, Karrada, etc.)

An MoI source says a sticky IED exploded under a taxi in Sheikh Omar, killing the driver and wounding two people. [Mada]

A security source says three civilians were wounded in an IED explosion in Karrada. [Ghad]

 

North (Tarmiya, Taji, etc.)

Iraqi Army 9th division troops defused a booby-trapped house in Sheikh Amer. [MoD Website]

 

East (Sadr City, New Baghdad, etc.)

An MoI source says an IED exploded near a popular market in Obeidi, just SE of Sadr City, killing one person and wounding seven. [Mada]

 

Southeast (Mada’in, etc.)

The IFP commander says his troops found a Daesh weapons and explosives cache in Mada’in (photos). [Harbi]

Daesh says PMF fighters were killed in 2 IED explosions in Ghadeer and Zafaraniya on Sunday. [A3maq]

DaeshDaily comment. For some reason, Daesh rarely announces responsibility for the daily IED attacks in Baghdad.

 

South (Dora, Mahmudiya)

An independent MP says Daesh has recently captured some areas in Bizayez Al-Yusufiyah and killed 28 people and displaced 70 families. He asks PM Abadi to intervene as soon as possible. [Mada]

An MoI source says the bodies of two unknown men were found shot in Abu Dsheer. [Mada]

An MoI source says a parked car bomb exploded, targeting an Iraqi Army convoy in Latifiya, killing one soldier and wounding five. [Mada]

 

Total Baghdad incidents reported:   10    (Includes only incidents reported)

 

ANBAR

Falluja

Eyewitnesses say Daesh threw “tens” of civilians into the Euphrates River, including women and children, because they were trying to escape Falluja. [Maalomah]

 

Kata’eb Hezbollah says Iraqi Army 1st division artillery shelled a Daesh gathering on street 40 in Falluja, killing many terrorists. The KH said on Sunday its rocket battalion destroyed a Daesh explosives rigging factory in Hay Jbail in south Falluja, killing 20 foreign terrorists. [Harbi]

 

Iraqi Army 14th division troops killed 32 Daesh terrorists and wounded 6, destroyed 3 machine gun mounted vehicles and 3 motorcycles, and defused 206 IEDs in the Qarma/Albu Shijil/Nadhem Al-Taqsim military sector. Coalition warplanes killed 8 terrorists and destroyed a machine gun in the same sector. [BOC Facebook Page]

 

Coalition warplanes destroyed 4 Daesh tunnels and a bulldozer in Albu Saleh and Albu Daaij, northwest of Ameriyat Al-Falluja. [MoD Website]

 

The chairman of the Ameriyat Al-Falluja subdistrict council says Daesh targeted the council’s building heavily with mortar shells and Katyusha rockets, killing or wounding civilians and security personnel. He says Iraqi Army artillery responded by shelling the source of fire and Daesh locations on the outskirts of Ameriyat. [Maalomah]

 

An Anbar Operations Command source says the oldest prayer caller in Ameriyat Al-Falluja, and seven other civilians, were killed in a Daesh shelling on a government residential compound. [BasNews]

A photo shows middle school boys in Ameriyat Al-Falluja hiding in a hallway from Daesh shelling [Facebook]

 

A video of a woman from inside Falluja talking about women’s role in helping the “mujahidin” [YouTube]

 

Iraqi Army 35th armored brigade killed 3 terrorists and destroyed a hideout in Hitawiyeen.

[BOC Facebook Page]

 

The IWMC says a PMF unit found a Daesh weapons and explosives cache in Jazeera Thirthar, northwest of Falluja. [Mawazin]

 

The Director of the Sunni Endowment attended the graduation ceremonies of the first Falluja tribal PMF battalion in Ameriyat Al-Falluja. [Sumaria]

 

Ramadi

The Governor has ordered an investigation after the director of the Sunni Endowment accused provincial officials of planting IEDs and booby-trapping houses in the city. The Chairman of the Anbar Provincial Council says the return of the displaced families to their houses in Ramadi was postponed till further notice. [IraqPress]

 

Local officials and tribal leaders say the director of the Sunni Endowment, Abdullatif Al-Hamaim, wanted the displaced families to return to cover up for Daesh leaders in the city. Many sources say people close to Hamaim, including his son-in-law, were leaders with Daesh and many of his close aides participated in the demonstrations that led to Daesh taking over large parts of Anbar in 2014. Other sources say that Hamaim accused local officials of planting IEDs in displaced families’ houses because he doesn’t want to admit he was responsible for the premature return that resulted in dozens of casualties. [Mada]

DaeshDaily comment: Local sources from Ramadi say the problem is actually about a multi-million-dollar contract to clear IEDs that was given to a local company close to the director. 

 

The IWMC says Iraqi forces secured 419 displaced people from areas around Ramadi. [Harbi]

 

The IWMC says the Intelligence Service found a large weapons and explosives cache on Street 20 in Ramadi. [Mawazin]

Photos of the explosives cache on street 20 [MoD Website]

 

A video of a Daesh Humvee bomb exploding on Iraqi soldiers in Ramadi District [YouTube]

 

The Anbar Operations Command says its troops defused 20 IEDs in Dhubatt in addition to 5 booby-trapped houses in Hawz in Ramadi. [Buratha]

 

A video of angry crowds in Ramadi attacking the car of Ahmed Abu Risha, the former leader of Anbar Sahwa. [Facebook]

DaeshDaily comment. Unlike his brother, the late Abdul Sattar Abu Risha, Ahmed was not serious about fighting the AQI and Daesh. Ahmed led the demonstrations against the government and joined the former minister of finance Rafi’ Al-Eissawi who called on Daesh to capture Ramadi, according to a prominent anti-government prominent tribal leader, as a first step to announcing the Sunni region in Iraq. This project was, and still is, widely supported by certain neighboring Sunni countries.

    Ahmed’s own nephew, Khamis, was negotiating with Daesh, was shown in a Daesh video communicating with the terrorists, and was even implicated in kidnapping and killing Iraqi military paramedics, before a Daesh suicide bomber killed him because he didn’t accept Daesh’s full control over the situation, according to another tribal leader.

    The thousands of comments on the video show that Anbar people are angry with the “leaders” who started the demonstrations and later escaped, leaving the citizens of Anbar at Daesh’s mercy or scattered in displacement camps. Now, some of these “leaders” are coming back for their share of the reconstruction contracts!    

 

Hit/Kubaisa/Baghdadi

The Jazeera Operations Commander says Iraqi forces liberated 21 km (13 miles) in the Dolab area, northeast of Baghdadi along the river, killing 41 Daesh terrorists and destroying 6 vehicles bombs and 512 IEDs, and buried a Daesh 750-meter tunnel in Dolab. Iraqi forces raised the flag over the Zakhikha police station on Sunday. [AIN] [MoD Website]

 

A Counter Terrorism Service commander says Iraqi forces have liberated 85% of Dolab, and it will be fully liberated in the next few hours. [Mawazin]

A tribal PMFs commander says Iraqi forces raised the flag on the Al-Dolab police station after heavy clashes with Daesh, killing “tens” of terrorists. [Mada]

 

Daesh’s version says it stopped the Iraqi attack in the Dolab area, destroying many vehicles and killing many soldiers. [JustPaste] It claimed it conducted a suicide attack on Iraqi forces near Dolab on Sunday, but offered no further details to contradict the government’s account. [A3maq]

 

The Jazeera Operations commander announced on Sunday that the IAA killed the Daesh commander of Dolab in Jaberiya village. [Sumaria]

 

General Abdul Kareem Al-Zoba’i, the commander of the Iraqi Army’s 27th brigade, said he and two of his associates were slightly wounded by a Daesh mortar shell near Dolab, and they are being treated at Ain Al-Asad base. Media sources said earlier that the general was killed. [Sumaria]

 

An Iraqi Army 7th division source says Coalition warplanes destroyed 3 Daesh vehicle bombs attacking the Majid checkpoint on the eastern entrance of Baghdadi. [Sumaria]

 

The Jazeera Operations commander says Iraqi Army 7th division troops destroyed 2 Daesh vehicle bombs in Dolab, killing the suicide terrorists inside. He also says Coalition warplanes destroyed a Daesh vehicle bomb in Al-Gharbi village northeast of Baghdadi, and another one in Jazeera Baghdadi, in addition to the 3 near Majid checkpoint. [Xendan]

 

The IWMC says Iraqi Army 7th division troops found 2 Daesh rocket launchers and 6 Katyushas near the cement factory in Kubaisa. [Harbi]

 

An IAA CH4 drone destroyed a Daesh construction shovel bomb and killed its driver in the Bakr neighborhood of Hit. [MoD Website]

 

Coalition warplanes destroyed a Daesh machine gun-mounted vehicle, a house, a trench and an ammunition cache in Jubba north of Baghdadi. [MoD Website]

 

Rutba/Western Anbar

The IWMC says Iraqi F-16s destroyed 2 Daesh guesthouses and storehouse in Rutba, killing 19 terrorists and wounding 4. [Harbi]

 

SALAHUDDIN

Photos of 2,000 mines and IEDs found by Iraqi forces last week in Salahuddin [Buratha]

 

Shirqat

A Salahuddin Operations Command source says the IAA destroyed a Daesh training camp in the old stadium area of Shirqat, killing “tens” of terrorists. [Ghad]

 

Baiji

Saraya Al-Jihad, a Shia PMF, says it stopped a Daesh attack in the Baiji-Siniya military sector on Sunday, killing many terrorists and destroying their vehicles. [Harbi]

 

A local police source says an Electricity directorate employee was killed and two others wounded by an IED while they were installing electricity wires for a security office near Hajjaj village south of Baiji. [Ghad]

 

A PMF source says Kata’eb Hezbollah rocketed Daesh in the Makhoul Mountains, killing 15 terrorists and wounding others. [Harbi]

 

A video of IAA airstrikes on Daesh in west Siniya and on the road between Baiji and Haditha [MoD]

 

A video of an Iraqi Daesh terrorists captured by Nujaba’ Movement, a Shia PMF, on Mount Makhoul [YouTube]

DaeshDaily comment. The NM might be responding to a Daesh recent video of a captured NM fighter in Syria.   

 

PMFs artillery destroyed a Daesh vehicle in Shawish near Baiji. [MoD Website]

 

Iraqi Army 5th division troops killed 3 terrorists and destroyed an excavator and a machine gun in Fatha. [MoD Website]

 

Samarra

The IWMC says Samarra Operations Command troops destroyed 3 IEDs in the Thirthar area. The troops also captured 5 wanted men in Samarra city. [Harbi]

 

Tooz

Tens of people were killed or wounded in the clashes between the Peshmerga and PMFs on Sunday early morning, before a short truce was signed. However, a local source says clashes between the Peshmerga and Shia PMFs re-erupted on Sunday evening, 6 hours after the truce. A medical source says two Turkmen civilians were wounded when mortar shells fell near a Shia mosque in Tuz Khurmatu.  [Ghad]

 

A Peshmerga commander says the best solution for Tuz Khurmatu is that both Shia PMFs and Peshmerga fighters leave the city and hand it to federal security forces. [Sumaria] The Deputy Governor of Salahuddin demands that the government intervene after the clashes renewed in Tooz. [Sumaria]

Al-Abbas Combat Division, a Shia PMF, issued a statement suggesting a solution for the situation was for the government to replace the existing Peshmerga units with other Kurdish troops, and replace the Turkmen Shia PMFs with its own fighters. [Mada]

The American Consul in Erbil says the Iraqi government should intervene to solve the situation in Tuz. He also says “we are ready to support them to reach peace.” He says all Iraqis should focus on fighting Daesh. [Rudaw]

 

After the truce was signed, a local official said Tuz was calm. He said the Peshmerga withdrew 3-4 km outside the city. He also says Tuz was facing lack of basic services after the clashes. The explanation for the fighting was that a Kurdish group attacked a Shia PMF unit, claiming the PMFs threw a hand grenade on them. Peshmerga tanks shelled Turkmen neighborhoods and the office of the Shia Endowment. [Maalomah]

 

However, other local sources say the Peshmerga shelled several Turkmen areas in Tuz Khurmatu 2 hours after the truce was signed, destroying 7 houses. A Peshmerga sniper killed a 22 year old man.

A local source says several civilians were killed or wounded by Peshmerga snipers in Tuz. [Buratha]

[Ghad]

A Peshmerga fighter was killed in the renewed clashes. [Rudaw]

 

The Governor of Kirkuk had held a joint press conference with the Badr commander to announce the truce. He says there are no problems between the Turkmen and the Peshmerga and accused some outsiders of trying to create problems in Tuz. Prime Minister Abadi ordered the Joint Operations Command to take any necessary military actions in Tuz.  [Buratha]

DaeshDaily comment. Despite statements designed to deflect blame, the heart of the problem is that the KRG considers Tooz one of the “disputed territories.” As with other border areas, it keeps Peshmerga there, supposedly to protect Kurdish residents but mostly to reinforce its claim on Tooz. This tactic goes unopposed in some places, like northern Ninewa, where Iraq can’t do anything about it, but Tooz is in an area also accessible to Shia PMFs, whose presence supposedly protects the Shia Turkmen and a lesser number of Shia Arab residents there, but is mostly intended to challenge the KRG’s territorial claim. There are similar standoffs in Kirkuk and Diyala for the same reason.

 

A local official says the Peshmerga breached the truce and started a displacement campaign against Turkmen in the Sayyed Safar area and seized their houses and vehicles. [Maalomah]

Photos of Peshmerga attacks on Turkmen properties in Tuz [Maalomah]

 

A Kurdish commando group freed 8 Peshmerga fighters who were trapped by PMFs in Tuz. [Rudaw]

A member of Salahuddin Provincial Council says seven civilians were wounded by mortar shells in Tuz on Monday. He says the clashes were renewed again. [Mada]

 

The Tuz Khurmatu mayor says Shia PMFs released 7 Kurdish truck drivers they kidnapped in Tuz. [BasNews]

 

A security source says Daesh is making use of the battles in Tuz to advance further to PMFs and Peshmerga locations in Bashir, Zarqa, Himrin and other areas. The source says Daesh sent many of its terrorists on foot to those areas in order not to attract attention. [Sumaria]

 

DIYALA

Baquba

A security source says two Diyala Provincial Council members, from the Allawi coalition, survived an IED explosion on their vehicle on the road from Baquba to Dalli Abbas north of Muqdadiya. [Buratha]

 

Muqdadiya/Abu Saida

The Dijla Operations Command says Iraqi forces found the Daesh “central” weapons and explosives storehouse in Al-Zor. [Etejah]

 

A security source says unknown armed men shot and killed a civilian near his house in Haramsha village. [Sumaria]

 

Northern Diyala

The manager of Saadiya subdistrict refuted media reports about clashes between the Peshmerga and PMFs near the subdistrict. He also says Daesh shelled the water project in Saadiya with 4 mortars, without causing human casualties. [Sumaria]

 

A security source says Diyala police arrested a man from Ramadi wanted on terrorism charges, near Udhaim. [Sumaria]

 

Southern Diyala

The IWMC says Mandali police captured a wanted man and found 2 rockets and 2 shells in the Iba’ area. [Harbi]

 

KIRKUK

Kirkuk

A security source says the bodies of two unknown men were found handcuffed and shot in north Kirkuk. [Mawazin]

 

Southwest

A security source says Coalition warplanes bombed Daesh in Rashad, killing 10 terrorists including a local commander. [Mada]

 

NINEWA

Mosul

Local sources say a Coalition A10 bombed an “important” Daesh meeting at the Mosul international Hotel. The sources say Daesh terrorists fled in their vehicles towards the Ghabat area but they were followed by Coalition warplanes and drones that targeted them for an hour. [ARA]

 

The Ninewa Operations Commander says American A10 planes bombed Daesh in Mosul, destroying several targets including 2 vehicles. [IraqPress]

 

A PUK official says Coalition warplanes bombed a Daesh gathering in Ghizlani camp, killing 8 terrorists and destroying 2 vehicles. [Mada]

 

Local sources say Daesh moved its anti-aircraft unit from its locations under bridges and put them in residential areas.  [Karemlash]

 

A PUK official says a Coalition drone killed Waheed Al-Sab’awi, the Daesh’s Ninewa oil official in Hay Al-Dhubat in east Mosul. [PUKMedia]

 

A Ninewa police source says Daesh launched a search in different parts of Mosul, captured 25 young men, and took them to an unknown location. [BasNews]

 

Local sources say Daesh hisbah thugs were deployed in Mosul to beat up, insult, fine and arrest many people on several accusations, including inappropriate clothes. The terrorists beat a teacher at the institution of fine arts to death. He was accused of resisting arrest, on an accusation that he was wearing long trousers. [Karemlash]

DaeshDaily comment. For some reason, within Salafi doctrine, you are not a “real Muslim” if you wear clothes that cover your ankles.   

 

The IWMC says Daesh blew up the Al-Sa’a church in Mosul. [Mawazin]

DaeshDaily comment. Another coward attack on Iraq’s identity. Iraq is being vehicle bombed to death and people don’t even have the right even to wear ankle-covering clothes. The sad part is that this kind of crime is supported by some Iraqis. This pre-historic line of thinking is strange to Iraq and will never be accepted by the vast majority of Iraqis. Iraqis will rebuild their churches, temples, mosques, and as many as possible of the other religious and historical sites destroyed by Daesh.

The Chaldean Patriarch Luis Sako condemned the Daesh crime of destroying the Al-Sa’a church in Mosul, saying it is astonishing that such a crime happens in Iraq. He says the terrorists want to get rid of indigenous Iraqis and bring in strangers and terrorists instead. [Mada]

DaeshDaily comment. Yes, this is the plan. Instead of the home of well-educated and law abiding citizens, Iraq is becoming a garbage dumb for terrorists from all over the world. It’s a raw deal. Iraq sent doctors, artists, and engineers, especially from its Christian community, all over the world, and in exchange they got the lowest of the low.

 

Nineveh Plain

The IWMC says Coalition warplanes bombed Daesh locations and weapons storehouses on Hamdaniya farms, killing 18 terrorists and wounding “tens” and destroying 3 vehicles. Coalition warplanes also destroyed a weapons and explosives storehouse in Karamlish in the center of Hamdaniya District and only 18 miles southeast of Mosul, killing 23 terrorists and destroying 4 vehicles. [Harbi]

 

Makhmur/Qayara

A Ninewa Operations Command source says drone attacks and artillery shelling have destroyed most of Daesh’s military capabilities in Makhmour and Qayara. He says at least 500 Daesh terrorists were killed since the start of Ninewa liberation operations. [Harbi]

 

A local source says Daesh executed 28 people from a village south of Mosul because they were trying to escape towards the Iraqi forces. [AIN]

 

The IWMC says Coalition warplanes bombed Daesh in Al-Nassr village, killing 2 terrorists and wounding 4 and destroying a machine gun mounted vehicle. [Harbi]

DaeshDaily comment. Weren’t we led to believe that the government captured this village some time ago?

 

Iraqi Army 15th division troops secured 54 people who escaped Daesh controlled areas. [MoD Website]

 

SOUTHERN IRAQ

The IWMC says a man wanted on terrorism charges was arrested in Haswa in Iskandariya north of Hilla. [Harbi]

 

REPORTS FROM TURKEY

 

Turkish authorities say they provided the Coalition with information about Daesh locations after Daesh targeted Kilis with Katyushas. Coalition warplanes destroyed some of these locations, killing many terrorists. Turkish media sources say Turkish artillery targeted Daesh locations with 5,330 shells so far, killing 370 terrorists. Turkish warplanes also killed 492 Daesh terrorists in airstrikes on Syria, according to Anadolu. [Rudaw] [Tunisien]

 

Turkish media sources say Daesh launched rockets on a poor neighborhood in Kilis on Sunday, wounding 16 people. Daesh also launched 2 rockets on a mosque, 100 meters away from the Kilis governor’s office, killing one person and wounding ten. People demonstrated in Kilis, saying the government is not protecting them and demanding that the Governor be fired.  [BasNews]

 

49 Daesh shells have landed on Kilis since January 18, killing 17 people and wounding 58. [Anadolu]

 

A local source says Coalition warplanes bombed Daesh locations in Hawar Kilis and other villages near Azaz. [Anadolu]

 

The Kilis state government says security forces captured 8 foreigners, including 3 children, while they were trying to cross the border to Syria. The authorities suspect that the 5 adults are Daesh members. [Anadolu]

 

The Turkish Army sends military reinforcements from Gaziantep to Kilis. [Dorar]

 

REPORTS FROM SYRIA

 

A spokesman for the Syrian opposition welcomed President Obama’s decision to send 250 troops to help in the fight against Daesh in Syria. [BasNews]

 

The CJTF says on April 24, Coalition military forces conducted three airstrikes in Syria, one near Manbij  and two near Mare’. [CJTF]

 

Northeast (Hasaka, Raqqa)

A Democratic Syria Forces source says American troops finished the construction of large parts of a military base and helicopter landing pad in south Kobane. The source says the Americans changed the original location of the base from a Kurdish village to an Arab village after Turkish protests.  [BasNews]

 

Local sources say a child was killed and other civilians wounded in a Daesh shelling on Shaddadi on Sunday. [ARA]

 

Northwest (Aleppo, Idlib)

A Syrian opposition commander says heavy clashes continued between Daesh and Turkey-backed opposition groups in Aleppo’s northern countryside. He says Coalition warplanes destroyed 3 Daesh vehicle bombs trying to attack Kafr Ghan village. He says opposition groups, supported by Coalition warplanes and Turkish artillery are trying to regain the areas they lost to Daesh recently. [ARA]

The opposition commander later said the opposition groups captured Kafr Ghan after heavy battles, but Daesh responded with a vehicle bomb attack that killed or wounded some of them.  [ARA]

 

The Turkish Military Command says Turkish artillery shelled Daesh locations in north Aleppo, killing 8 terrorists. A Turkish journalist says the Turkish military is under huge pressure to respond to Daesh attacks on Kilis. Residents of Kilis attacked Syrian shops in the city after Daesh’s shelling on Sunday. [ARA]

 

Turkey-backed and Saudi-backed opposition groups kept up their shelling of the predominantly Kurdish Sheikh Maqsoud neighborhood. An opposition group sniper wounded a 12 year old boy in the area. Al-Nusra and Ahrar Al-Sham opposition groups shelled Basoufan village in Afrin without causing human casualties, according to a local activist. [Hawar] [Hawar] [BasNews]

 

Daesh says it stopped a Syrian opposition groups attack on Kafr Ghan destroying an SUV and damaging a tank and a personnel carrier and killing many fighters. Daesh says the attack was preceded by 4 American airstrikes in addition to Turkish artillery shelling. [A3maq]

 

Daesh issued a video of Turkish shelling on Aleppo’s northern countryside. [A3maq]

 

Ahrar Al-Sham, a Saudi backed Syrian opposition group, accused Daesh of the suicide attack that killed its commander in chief in Idlib countryside. Ahrar Al-Sham is one of the most vulnerable Syrian groups to Daesh attacks because many of its members were close to Daesh before the two groups clashed in early 2015. [IslamMemo]

 

A local activist says Nusra, Ahrar Al-Sham, and other opposition groups launched tens of mortars and locally made rockets on Basofan village in Afrin southern countryside. [BasNews]

 

Central and West (Homs, Hama, etc.)

A Syrian military source says Syrian troops ambushed a Daesh group in the Patrol Line area, south of Aqarib in Hama’s eastern countryside, destroying a machine gun-mounted armored vehicle and killing several terrorists. [SANA]

 

A Syrian military source says Syrian warplanes launched several airstrikes on Daesh locations northeast of Tadmur and east of Qaryatayn, destroying many vehicles and killing many terrorists. [SANA] [SANA]

 

Daesh publishes photos of destroying a Syrian Army BMP vehicle and a bulldozer with guided missiles east of Tadmur. [JustPaste] [JustPaste]

 

East (Deir Ez-Zor)

Daesh issues a video about 2 of its suicide terrorists (a 71 year old Algerian and a 15 year old Syrian) who conducted suicide attacks in Deir Ez-Zor. Daesh called on Muslims from all ages to join its terrorists, like those 2 did. [AKI]

 

South (Rif Damashq, Suwayda, Daraa, etc.)

A Syrian police source says five people were killed and twenty wounded when an SUV bomb exploded at a check point in the Dhiyabiya town entrance in Rif Dimashq. The source says the terrorist blew the vehicle up after he was discovered by the security forces. [SANA]

 

A vehicle bomb exploded near at Shia militia checkpoint in the Sayyidah Zaynab area in Rif Dimashq, killing 15 people, including Shia fighters. Another vehicle bomb exploded in the same area, according to Qasioun reporter. [Qasioun]

 

Daesh says one of its suicide terrorists attacked a “big gathering” of Syrian soldiers and Shia militia fighters with a vehicle bomb in Sayyidah Zaynab, killing or wounding 48 of them. [JustPaste]

A video of the aftermath of the suicide attack in Sayyidah Zaynab [YouTube]

 

A Syrian military source says Syrian warplanes destroyed a Daesh armored vehicle in Suwayda’s northeastern countryside, killing several terrorists in. [SANA]

 

OTHER MIDDLE EAST/NORTH AFRICA REPORTS

 

North Africa

Egypt

The spokesman of the local government in Banaadir says a Daesh local leader was captured in a special security operation. The terrorist used to be a member of Al-Shabab terrorist group. [IslamMemo]

 

A security source says security forces killed 6 Ansar Bait Al-Maqdis terrorists and destroyed 2 trucks loaded with mortars and rockets south of Arish. The source says the terrorists were planning an attack on security forces in the area. [VetoGate]

 

A woman and a child were wounded in an explosion in Mansoura village in Rafah. Another woman was wounded when unknown armed men shot arbitrarily in Sheikh Zuweid.  [VetoGate]

 

Security forces captured 2 trucks loaded with food items in Raisa, west of Arish. The vehicles belonged to a local businessman who sold the items to Ansar Bait Al-Maqdis, Daesh’s branch in Sinai. [VetoGate]

 

Security sources say an officer and two soldiers were killed and another soldier wounded when an IED exploded on their vehicle in Kharouba village south of Sheikh Zuweid. [VetoGate]

 

A civilian was wounded when an IED exploded on a police armored vehicle in Masa’eed neighborhood in south Arish. [VetoGate]

 

Egyptian military helicopters and F-16s launched heavy airstrikes on several Ansar Bait Al-Maqdis hideouts in two villages south of Sheikh Zuweid, killing 30 terrorists and wounding “tens” and destroying 2 explosives storehouses, 3 cars and several motorcycles. [ElWatan]

 

Libya

Northeast

A Libyan military spokesman says Libyan troops captured the Tika area and its surroundings, west of Benghazi. [Libya24]

 

A video found in a Daesh terrorist’s mobile phone in Benghazi [YouTube]

 

A Libyan Oil Facilities Guard spokesman says the Daesh terrorists who withdrew from Derna last week crossed 5 security gates and 3 airbases without being stopped.  [Libya24]

 

Military sources the bodies of two unknown men were found beheaded in Bawadi Ali south of Ajdabiya. The sources say the bodies might belong to drivers kidnapped by Daesh two days ago when the terrorists fled Derna. [AfriGate]

 

Central coast

Local sources say Daesh hisbah terrorists are calling on medical staff to report to their work and not leave in order to treat the Daesh terrorists who were wounded in Benghazi and Derna and came to Sirte. [AfriGate]

 

Tunisia

Tunisia Minister for Foreign Affairs says 700 Tunisian women joined terrorist groups in Syria, in addition to 100 women in prison on terrorism charges. [AfriGate]

 

Algeria

Algerian security sources say security forces captured 3 terrorists plus weapons and ammunition near Warqala. [AfriGate]

 

Daesh says it detonated several IEDs on Algerian troops in the Qurush area in Jijel on Thursday and Friday, killing four soldiers. [JustPaste]

 

Other countries

Somalia

Daesh says it damaged an African Union vehicle with an IED in Mogadishu. [JustPaste]

 

SOCIAL MEDIA SOURCES

 

Facebook Page of the Day

Dorar Shamiya, an anti-Assad Syrian news page

 

Daesh Twitter Accounts of the Day

https://twitter.com/ahmad42398395

https://twitter.com/113_pasm

https://twitter.com/_________102v

https://twitter.com/BddnmNddndm

https://twitter.com/17_7_1437

 

Other Daesh media 

A Daesh issued video of the “economic prosperity under the caliphate” [GoogleDrive]

 

Daesh audio newsletter for today in Arabic [JustPaste]

 

 

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