An Update On ISIS Activities

July 22, 2015

July 22, 2015

 

REPORTS FROM IRAQ

 

Two reports from the mainstream media got our attention.

We have commented twice that while everyone seems focused on Ramadi and Fallujah, equal attention must be focused on Haditha to the west, location of the absolutely critical Haditha Dam and close to an air base and a US military training facility. Today the Washington Post, in a front page story, reports on a media visit to Haditha, which is surrounded by Daesh-controlled area and under frequent attack, with the ominous headline “ISIS selects next target.”

 

Der Spiegel, the German paper, interviewed the former coordinator of suicide bombings in Baghdad, now in prison. The story is fascinating in general, but we picked up on the information that many terrorists, even the most dangerous, have gotten released or have escaped from prison through bribery or other corruption. The situation has improved under PM Abadi. Our comment is that a corrupt state cannot eliminate terrorism. http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/a-conversation-with-an-isis-suicide-bomber-logistician-a-1043485.html

 

ANBAR

Iraq War Media Cell (IWMC) says Iraqi forces destroyed 2 Daesh hideouts in Albu Aitha in addition to suicide bomber “guesthouses” in Qarma. It also says the IAF destroyed 3 Daesh locations in Al-Qa’im in the far west and another in Ramadi, killing 60 terrorists. [Al-Ghad]

 

The MoD says Iraqi forces, supported by the IAA, are moving ahead towards their targets in Anbar according to plan. It says Daesh fighters are running away from Falluja in large numbers and the city will be liberated soon. [Al-Maalomah] [Al-Maalomah]

 

Falluja

A Shia militia says they captured an Indonesian terrorist called Abu Abdurrahman Hartu as he tried to escape Falluja in women’s clothes. [Safir News]

 

The Chairman of the Khaldiya Subdistrict Council says it has shortages of water, fuel and electricity. [Al-Zaman]

 

Daesh says its terrorists shelled a tribal meeting for Sahwa leaders and PMF commanders south of Ameriyat Al-Falluja, injuring many of them. [Twitter]

 

Ramadi

The Iraqi Federal Police (IFP) commander says his troops killed 3 Daesh trying to booby-trap a school in Hsaiba east of Ramadi. He also says the IFP killed 2 snipers and destroyed 3 vehicles in the same area. [Al-Baghdadia]

 

The Iraqi Federal Police commander says the Rapid Intervention Brigade stopped a Daesh attack on Iraqi forces in Al-Madhiq, east of Ramadi, killing 14 of them and destroying 6 trucks. [A-Maalomah]

 

A security source says Iraqi forces supported by the IAA started a military operation to liberate Anbar University, in Ramadi. [Khabaar]

 

The IWMC says Coalition airpower, based on information from Iraqi Intelligence, bombed a Daesh headquarters in Al-Tash 1st south of Ramadi. [Mawazin]

 

Elsewhere in Anbar

IWMC says Iraqi forces advanced in the Al-Thirthar area and killed 4 Daesh terrorists. [Radio Dijla]

 

A security source says the Coalition bombed Daesh locations in south and north Al-Qa’im, killing 12. [Al-Baghdadia]

 

A security source says an explosion in a Daesh explosives factory in Rawa in west Anbar killed 7 Daesh members. [Al-Baghdadia]

 

The PMFs say they captured a female Saudi suicide bomber trying to attack Iraqi forces in Anbar. [Radio Dijla]

 

SALAHUDDIN

An Iraqi Army officer says Iraqi forces regained control of areas in Baiji center after losing them to Daesh. A Salahuddin GC member says Iraqi forces control most of Baiji but battles are ongoing on in some areas. [Erem News]

Local sources say Daesh attacked Iraqi forces in Hay Al-Asry in north Baiji killing or injuring 15 soldiers and captured the area. [Al-Gharbiya]

DaeshDaily comment. To regain Ninewa and get its country back, the government needs to gain firm control of all of Baiji, strategically located on the road to Mosul. So far, despite many successful battles and countless upbeat official news reports, it hasn’t. 

 

A source in Salahuddin Operations Command says 12 Daesh terrorists were killed and 2 vehicles destroyed in an airstrike east of Baiji. [Al-Maalomah]

 

A security source in Salahuddin says the IAA bombed Daesh locations in Shirqat, killing 10 terrorists. [Al-Maalomah]

 

A security source says Iraqi forces cleared the Sayyed Ghareeb area south of Samarra completely, one month after it was recaptured from Daesh. The source says the delay happened because of the huge number of Daesh IEDs in the area, many using a new, sophisticated design that connects the IEDs to multiple triggers, making them complicated to defuse. [Al-Maalomah]

A security source says security forces captured 2 Daesh members disguised as mentally disabled people, trying to cross from Salahuddin to Diyala with returning displaced families. [Al-Maalomah]

 

The Migration and Displacement Directorate in Kirkuk says the fifth group of Tikrit displaced families, 300 families, have returned to their homes.  [Al-Mada]

 

A security source says unknown armed men detonated a house belonging to a displaced family in Tuz. [Mawazin]

 

Daesh publishes photos of lashing two men in Shirqat based on adultery charges. [DAOW]

 

The MoD refutes reports about two F-16 jets disappearing over Erbil and say they were on a training mission in Kurdistan and returned to their base in Balad. [Al-Baghdadia]

The IAF commander, a Kurd, says the 2 jets flew over Kurdistan on a training mission and the pilots are Kurds. [PUK Media]

 

BAGHDAD

A PMF leader says the only duty of the PMFs is to fight Daesh. He also says the PMFs work within a national leadership and respect the political process.  A Shia MP says some PMF leaders promised to change the course of the political process after the battle with Daesh ends and will oppose the politicians who corrupted the political process. [Al-Zaman]

 

According to security sources:

  • The number of the casualties of the Baghdad Al-Jadida terrorist attack yesterday has reached 22 dead and 44 injured. [Al-Mada]
  • Two people were killed and 8 injured in an IED explosion near a popular market in Abu Ghraib in west Baghdad. [Rudaw]
  • A parked car exploded in Bayyaa in south Baghdad, killing 2 civilians and injuring 8. [Buratha]
  • A car bomb exploded in Shurta in southeast Baghdad, killing 3 civilians and injuring 10. [Al-Mada]
  • Security forces arrested 6 suspects linked to the attack on a night club in Baghdad yesterday that killed one civilian. [Al-Mada]
  • An IED exploded inside a small bus in Sadr City, killing one civilian and injuring 5. [Al-Baghdadia]

 

Daesh claimed responsibility for the two car bombs in Baghdad Al-Jadida and Zafaraniya yesterday. [Ana Al-Muslim]

A top Sunni Iraqi cleric says the Baathists are behind the recent wave of terrorist attacks in Baghdad and are trying to divert attention from the military operations against Daesh in Anbar. [Al-Ghad]

 

An MoI source says 2 Daesh suicide bombers detonated themselves at a checkpoint in Binouk in east Baghdad, killing 5 people and injuring 15.

 

The source also says a car bomb exploded in Shaab in northeast Baghdad, killing 4 and injuring 11. [Al-Mada] Another source says 2 car bombs exploded in Shaab, killing and injuring dozens of people. [Al-Maalomah]

 

IWMC says the Coalition launched 12 airstrikes on different Daesh locations, killing 13 terrorists. It also says the IAF flew 11 sorties and the IAA 9. [Al-Ghad]

 

Officials in the Estonian MoD say they donated light and mid-size weapons and ammunition from the Soviet era to Iraq, after a request from the Iraqi government. [Al-Mada]

 

DIYALA

Diyala GC says they authorized the Governor to ask PM Abadi to withdraw the 5,000 Diyala soldiers from Anbar and Salahuddin and bring them back to the governorate to fight terrorism. [Al-Mada]

 

An MP from Diyala says the security officer who helped Daesh in the attack on Khan Bani Saad has two brothers working with Daesh. The MP asks why such a person was hired in the first place. [Khabaar]

 

A police source says 2 PMF fighters were killed when an IED exploded on their patrol in Muqdadiya, northeast of Baquba. [Mawazin]

 

A civilian was killed and 4 injured in an IED explosion in Abu Saida northeast of Baquba. [Al-Gharbiya]

 

KIRKUK

The IWMC says the IAF destroyed a Daesh explosives and car-bomb storehouse in Hawija. [Al-Ghad]

 

A Christian MP from Kirkuk says Christian Iraqi houses are being sold illegally in Kirkuk without the knowledge of the owners, who left Iraq because of the security situation. [Ankawa]

 

NINEWA

Local sources say Daesh withdrew all its military vehicles from the streets of Mosul and ordered its people to mix with ordinary citizens and use civilian cars in order not to be targeted. They also say Daesh’s new local recruits, who were supposed to join civilian positions in the city, were instead sent to the battles in Salahuddin and Anbar, causing many of them to leave Daesh.

Ninewa Operations commander says the Coalition launched 30 airstrikes on Daesh in Ninewa during the last few days, killing 108 terrorists and destroying 8 vehicles and 16 Daesh-occupied buildings. [Al-Ghad]

A local source in Ninewa says 45 Daesh terrorists were killed or injured in Coalition airstrikes south and southeast of Mosul. [Al-Mada]

Five Daesh leaders attending a meeting at Mosul University were killed by a drone. [Al-Ghad]

Eyewitnesses say a Daesh small bus was bombed by a drone in east Mosul, killing the 3 terrorists inside. [Al-Ghad]

A commander in the Ninewa Police says unknown armed men opened fire on a Daesh gathering in west Mosul, killing 11 Daesh terrorists from other Arab countries.

Eyewitnesses say Daesh beheaded 4 brothers, accusing them of cooperating with the Iraqi security forces.

A local source in Mosul says Daesh executed 3 of its own leaders, accusing them of treason. [PUK Media]

Local sources say 5 people from one family, including a woman and a child, were killed in a Coalition airstrike on east Mosul. [Erem News]

A Kurdish official says the Coalition killed 4 Daesh terrorists in an airstrike on their location in a village near Makhmur. [PUK Media]

OTHER GOVERNORATES   

The Intelligence Service in Najaf says they arrested 8 terrorists who entered the city as displaced people. The suspects admitted to participating in several terrorist attacks, including the assassination of a PMF commander. [Buratha]

 

REPORTS FROM SYRIA

The YPG, supported by the Syrian army, captured Al-Nashwa neighborhood in west Hasaka after heavy battles with Daesh. Daesh booby-trapped many houses in the area, killing or injuring YPG fighters. The YPG says Daesh also used chemical weapons. The battles are still going on. [Rudaw]

 

The YPG says the fights against Daesh in Siren, south of Kobane, are still going on and they will capture it very soon. [PUK Media]

 

Daesh says its terrorists foiled an attack by the Syrian Army and unspecified Shia militias on a

village northeast of Aleppo, killing 24 soldiers. [A3maq]

Daesh publishes a video of the attack in Aleppo. [YouTube]

 

Daesh publishes a video of executing a “spy” in Hama. The Daesh terrorist in the video spoke French. [Isdarat]

 

Daesh says it blew up an explosives factory belonging to Ababil Huran (a Syrian militia), south of Damascus. [Ana Al-Muslim]

 

REPORTS FROM OTHER MIDDLE EAST/NORTH AFRICAN COUNTRIES 

 

Turkey. The PKK claimed responsibility for killing 2 Turkish soldiers in Ceylanpınar on the Syria border in response to the terrorist attack on Suruç. [Rudaw]

DaeshDaily comment. This action is not only irresponsible but politically foolish. It won’t win much support in either Turkey or Syria, and worsens the PKK’s already bad standing with the Turkish government. Syria harbored Ocalan, the PKK leader now in prison, for 19 years until the Turks threatened to go to war.

 

A PKK official accuses Erdogan’s Justice and Development Party of supporting Daesh and starting terrorist attacks to create the isolated area they want between Turkey and Syria. [PUK Media]

Turkish security sources say an IED exploded near the Justice and Development Party’s headquarters in Hatai near the Syrian borders with no casualties. Another IED was defused near the Party’s headquarters in Ankara. [Iraq Press]

Turkish authorities identified the suicide bomber in Suruc as a citizen from south Turkey called Sheik Abdurrahman Alagoz. [Islam Memo]

The Turkish authorities blocked Twitter to prevent publishing of photos from the Suruc explosion and to avoid possible demonstrations. [Rudaw] A Turkish court says it lifted the suspension on Twitter after it removed the material about the Suruc explosion. [Islam Memo]

The Daesh website with a domain in Turkey, “Come to Success”, was suspended.

DaeshDaily comment. This is the 3rd major Daesh website shut down in the last couple of months.

 

Libya. Local sources say 2 car bombs exploded in Derna in east Libya. Daesh was kicked out of Derna by other Islamic militias recently but it established locations outside the city. [Erem News]

A security source says injured Daesh terrorists, including 4 Egyptians, were moved from Derna to Ibn Sina hospital in Sirte for treatment. [Al-Wasat]

Tunisia. The Tunisian MoI says it arrested 7 Daesh suspects in Monastir and confiscated materials used for making explosives and Daesh publications. [Shams FM]

West Africa. Daesh publishes a video of Eid prayers in West Africa. [Isdarat]

 

SOCIAL MEDIA SOURCES

 

Facebook Page of the Day

Ahrar Ninewa Facebook page publishes names and photos of local Daesh members.

 

Daesh Twitter Accounts of the Day

https://twitter.com/3baaas37

https://twitter.com/Aakhshamikh

https://twitter.com/TurMedia205

 

Daesh says Twitter is committing a “massacre” against its accounts. More than a thousand accounts were suspended in an hour. [Twitter]

 

Unfortunately, SpongeBob might have joined Daesh. [Twitter]

 

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Acronyms  

AHH Asa’eb Ahl Al-Haq
COMSEC Council of Ministers Secretariat
GC Governorate (Provincial) Council
GoI Government of Iraq
IAA Iraqi Army Aviation
IAF Iraqi Air Force
IED Improvised Explosive Devise
IFP Iraqi Federal Police
IKR Iraqi Kurdistan Region
IP Iraqi Parliament (Council Of Representatives)
IWMC Iraqi War Media Cell
JOC Joint Operations Command
KDP Kurdistan Democratic Party
KH Kata’eb Hezbollah
KM Kata’eb Al-Mosul
KRG Kurdistan Regional Government
MoD Ministry of Defense
MoI Ministry of Interior
MP Member of Parliament
PKK Kurdistan Workers’ Party
PM Prime Minister
PUK Patriotic Union of Kurdistan
PYD Democratic Union Party (Syria)
YPG People’s Protection Units (Syria)

 

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