An Update On ISIS Activities

July 29, 2016

July 29, 2016

Manbij

Today’s Major Developments

Anti-corruption demonstrators back in Baghdad, other cities.

Baghdadi’s deputy and brother-in-law among many killed by IAF airstrikes in Al-Qa’im.

Babel Police arrest 20 terrorism suspects.

Coalition hits Manbij with 19 airstrikes in one day.

CENTCOM confirms 55 accidental deaths from Coalition bombing.

 

REPORTS FROM IRAQ

 

NATIONAL NEWS

 

Hundreds of people demonstrated in Baghdad and several other governorates demanding reforms and an end to the sectarian and partisan quotas, and objecting to the CoR member benefits law and the freedom of expression law. [Mada]

 

The Reform Front in the CoR says Iraq should cut off diplomatic relations with Saudi Arabia if the Saudis host the “Sunni Region” conference. They say the conference aims at destroying the political process in Iraq and will host people linked to Daesh. Several Sunni politicians are supposedly attending the conference including former Ninewa Governor Atheel Nujaifi, Rafi’ Al-Eissawi, and former Vice President Tareq Al-Hashimi, living in exile to avoid implementation of death sentences against him. [Rudaw]

DaeshDaily comment. Saudi Arabia is still working on destroying Iraqi unity and Iraqi identity by claiming to be the friend of Sunni Iraqis, similar to what Iran does on the other side. This petty cold war between the two countries, which is a recently developed political conflict and not really a religious one, has killed hundreds of thousands of people so far, and neither side seems interested in ending it.

The dilemma for Iraq is that it is caught in between. Any gesture that seems negative to Saudi Arabia is regarded by some Sunnis as further evidence of sectarianism by the Shia-majority government. However, not standing up to Saudi sectarianism undermines Iraq’s own security.

 

The Chaldean Patriarch Louis Sako issued a statement condemning the terrorist attack in Normandy and calling for political and religious leaders to de-legitimize the people who call for terrorism and poisonous ideas. [Sumaria]

 

The MoD says the Minister of Defense met with the Badr leader, Hadi Al-Ameri, to discuss the Mosul liberation preparations. [ROJ]

 

The Coalition says it conducted 9 airstrikes on Daesh targets in Iraq, in the Qayara (3) and Mosul (2) areas, and in Hit (2), Haditha (1), and Habbaniya (1). [InherentResolve]

 

BAGHDAD

Security-related incidents reported

Northwest (Kadhimiya)

An MoI source says a Ministry of Science and Technology employee was killed and his wife and two children wounded when a sticky IED exploded under his vehicle in Hurriya. [Mada]

 

North (Tarmiya, Taji, etc.)

Iraqi forces started a military operation in Tarmiya targeting Daesh hideouts and sleeper cells (video). [Sumaria]

 

East (Sadr City, New Baghdad, etc.)

A security source says a roadside IED exploded on Al-Fallah Street in Sadr City without causing any casualties. [Ghad]

 

Southeast (Mada’in, etc.)

An MoI source says two people were killed and five wounded when an IED exploded near a commercial area in Mada’in. [Mada]

 

South (Dora, Mahmudiya)

A local police source says the body of an unknown young man was found shot near Fadhliya. [Maalomah]

The MoD says Iraqi Army 23rd brigade destroyed 4 Daesh guesthouses in the Manari area in Arab Jabour. [Ghad]

The MoD says Iraqi Army 55th brigade found an explosives cache in the Kilo 5 area. The same brigade destroyed an IED and found more weapons and explosives in the Arab Dawood area. [Ghad]

 

Southwest (Rasheed)

An MoI source says one person was killed and eight wounded when an IED exploded near a commercial area in Hay Al-Furat. [Mada]

The MoI says a man wanted on terrorism charges was captured in Dora. [Baghdadia]

The MoD says Iraqi Army 25th brigade captured a man wanted on terrorism charges in Rasheed. [Ghad]

 

West (Mansour, Ghazaliya, Abu Ghraib)

An MoI source says one PMF fighter was killed and four others wounded when an IED exploded on their vehicle in Abu Ghraib. [Mada]

 

Total Baghdad incidents reported:   11    (Includes only incidents reported)

 

ANBAR

Falluja

Iraqi forces defused a booby-trapped house and 27 IEDs in Falluja. Iraqi forces also defused the house of Daesh’s “minister of trade”. [BOC Facebook Page]

 

Iraqi forces found another car-rigging factory in Falluja city and confiscated large quantities of explosives. [BOC Facebook Page]

 

Iraqi forces defused a school, 55 houses, and 4 IEDs in the Qarma area. [BOC Facebook Page]

 

Iraqi forces defused 22 houses and 15 shops, destroying 2 IEDs, in Saqlawiya. [BOC Facebook Page]

 

Iraqi Army 24th brigade found an explosives cache buried in a house in Ameriyat Al-Falluja. [BOC Facebook Page]

 

The Anbar Operations Commander says Iraqi forces began to clear the Falahat area, west of Falluja, from mines and IEDs, confiscating 29 C4 cans. [Sumaria]

 

The Anbar Operations Command says Iraqi forces destroyed 3 Daesh IEDs in the Hassi area. [PUKMedia]

DaeshDaily comment. All these post-battle stories about defusing IEDs and booby-trapped houses sound boring and repetitive after a while. They all represent a measure of progress, however, in making homes and neighborhoods safe and allowing residents to return to their homes.

 

Ramadi

A military source says an Iraqi soldier was killed and another wounded when an IED exploded on their patrol in the Zangoura area. The source also says Daesh shelled the 7th tribal PMF brigade’s headquarters north of Ramadi, killing one fighter. [Sumaria]

 

The Chairman of the Khaldiya subdistrict council says Iraqi forces killed 3 Daesh terrorists who were trying to plant an IED near Jazeera Khaldiya. [Maalomah]

 

The Anbar Operations Command says Coalition warplanes conducted an airstrike on Daesh locations in the Qurtan area, killing 9 terrorists. [PUKMedia]

 

Photos of IFP troops moving toward Ramadi to help liberate Jazeera Khaldiya [Harbi]

 

Hit/Haditha

A tribal PMF commander says Iraqi warplanes destroyed a Daesh hideout near the Haditha Dam, killing 7 terrorists. [Maalomah]

 

A security source says IAA helicopters and Coalition warplanes targeted Daesh locations in Hay Al-Bakr west of Hit. [Mawazin]

 

Rutba/Western Anbar

The IWMC says the IAF, aided by the Al-Suqoor Intelligence Cell, destroyed 3 Daesh targets in Al-Qa’im, killing “tens” of terrorists, including the deputy of the Daesh leader, Baghdadi, and the “deputy minister of war,” in addition to Abu Taha Al-Azzawi, Baghdadi’s brother-in-law, and other notable terrorists. It also says the IAF destroyed a large weapons and explosives storehouse, in addition to 5 vehicles, including 2 vehicle bombs. [Ghad]

 

The Al-Suqoor Intelligence Cell says it conducted an operation killing several Daesh terrorists and capturing 6 in Rutba. It says the terrorists were responsible for suicide attacks in Kerbala, Dhi Qar, and Basra. [Mada]

 

SALAHUDDIN

The MoD says it captured 43 wanted people while they were trying to sneak into Salahuddin with returnee families. [Ghad]

DaeshDaily comment. That’s a rather large number of suspects caught in one day. Daesh has been trying to gain ground in the liberated areas.

 

A local official says a list of 950 names was sent to Prime Minister Abadi’s office, consisting of tribal fighters to participate in holding the ground in Salahuddin. [BasNews]

 

Shirqat

A PMF commander says the Daesh mufti of Shirqat, a 40-year-old Saudi terrorist, was killed in an airstrike on a Daesh guesthouse just outside Shirqat. [Sumaria]

DaeshDaily comment. Saudis are preferred by Daesh and Al-Qaeda to be “muftis,” or sharia emirs. Most have never actually studied religion, but because they are from Saudi Arabia, people believe they know what they are talking about.

 

A PMF spokesman says Daesh has collapsed in Shirqat and he does not anticipate any fierce battles once the liberation battle starts. [Harbi]

 

The MoD says the IAA destroyed a Daesh machine gun-mounted vehicle, killing 4 terrorists in the Rihaiwat area in Makhoul subdistrict. [Ghad]

 

Baiji

The PMF Press says PMF troops stopped a Daesh attack in the Makhoul Mountains area, killing several terrorists and destroying several vehicles. [Ghad]

 

DIYALA

Baquba

A security source says armed men kidnapped a civilian on the road between Baquba and Muqdadiya. [Sumaria]

 

Muqdadiya/Abu Saida

The Diyala Police Commander says his men captured 2 men wanted on terrorism charges near Muqdadiya. [Sumaria]

 

Northern Diyala

A PMF commander says many families from Albu Khayal village in Udhaim left their houses after Daesh kidnapped and executed five people from the village. He says Daesh is still a major presence in the Mtaibija area near Udhaim, and is threatening the nearby villages. He says Daesh is attempting to force people out of liberated villages so as to use some as a launch pad for its attacks. [Sumaria]

 

A police source says people of Sa’aidat village near Qara Tapa stopped a Daesh attack on their village. The source says three people from the village were wounded. [BasNews]

 

KIRKUK

Kirkuk

A security source says Daesh launched a rocket on the North Gas Company headquarters on the road between Kirkuk and Hawija, without causing any casualties. [Sumaria]

 

A security source says a Daesh terrorist from Hawija was captured at a checkpoint in Laylan south of Kirkuk city. [Sumaria]

 

Hawija

A security source says the IAA destroyed a Daesh car bomb factory in Hawija, killing a Daesh explosives expert. [Mada]

 

NINEWA

Mosul

A security source says the Coalition bombed a police station used by Daesh as a headquarters in the 17 Tammuz neighborhood in Mosul city, killing tens of terrorists. [Mada]

 

Local sources say an IED exploded targeting a Daesh vehicle at the entrance of Mahalbiya subdistrict, west of Mosul, killing 5 terrorists. [Maalomah]

 

The International Committee of the Red Cross says, with the start of liberation operations in Mosul, around 1 million people might be forced to leave their houses in the coming months. [Karemlash]

 

The MoI Spokesman says Iraqi forces have liberated more than 13 administrative units in Ninewa governorate so far. He says Daesh has fallen in Mosul, and there is a “real revolution” against it. He says the Iraqi Government is depending on the people of Mosul to support Iraqi forces. [Etejah]

 

Media sources say a Daesh speaker in Mosul insulted the men of Mosul during the Friday prayers for refusing to join Daesh in the battlefield. [Karemlash]

 

Daesh issues a video of the activities of its religious call and mosque offices in Mosul. [DawaAlhaq]

DaeshDaily comment. The video shows how Daesh “takes care” of mosques, which includes mutilating and destroying mosques that don’t follow Wahhabi rules. The video also attacks other Sunni groups and imams. Daesh stresses its Wahhabi background in using the thousands of Wahhabi mosques all over the world for its recruitment.   

 

Makhmur/Qayara

The MoD says a tribal PMF force, supported by Iraqi Army units, liberated Shayala village southwest of Haj Ali in Makhmur, capturing 2 vehicles in addition to weapons and ammunition. [Ghad]

 

The MoD says Coalition warplanes destroyed a Daesh car bomb and IED factory near the Water Project in Qayara subdistrict. The Coalition also destroyed 12 Daesh rocket launchers in Al-Houd village, in addition to killing 3 terrorists, and destroying a vehicle on the road between Mosul and Qayara and a rocket launcher near Ihjala village. [Ghad]

 

The MoD says Iraqi Army 35th brigade captured Hussein Al-Khalifa village east of the Qayara Airfield. [Ghad]

 

Northwest (Tal Afar, Sinjar)

Daesh says it stopped 2 Peshmerga attacks on Hasan Jallad and Qara Kharab villages near Aski Mosul. [A3maq]

 

SOUTHERN IRAQ

Najaf

Sistani’s office issued a statement saying the Iraqi government was not able, or willing, to support the displaced people. It also says it built a 300-unit camp equipped with water and electricity in Najaf for 300 displaced families. [Sumaria]

 

Babel

The Babel Police Chief says his troops, supported by Sahwa fighters, conducted a search in Jbala and Iskandariya and captured 20 men wanted on terrorism charges and confiscated weapons and explosives. [Sumaria]

 

REPORTS FROM SYRIA

 

The Coalition says it conducted 22 airstrikes on Daesh targets in Syria. An amazing nineteen of these were on the Manbij area, the others on Mare (2) and on Shaddadi in Hasaka (1). [InherentResolve]

 

Northeast (Hasaka, Raqqa)

YPG fighters conducted a special operation in Raqqa city that liberated a Yazidi family of twelve from Daesh. [Hawar]

 

Northwest (Aleppo, Idlib)

Manbij Military Council troops finally captured Hay Al-Kajli in southeast Manbij after 5 days of heavy battles with Daesh (video). After that, MMC fighters continued their advance toward the city center and captured a street and a bridge before heading toward Hay Al-Nuaimi in Manbij city center. [Hawar] [Hawar]

 

Manbij Military Council troops liberated around 1,000 civilians, mostly women and children, from Hay Al-Kajli and Al-Rabita streets. Survivors say Daesh is targeting anyone trying to leave the city. They also say people who are trapped in the city are suffering from lack of food. (video). [Hawar]

A mother of three from Manbij says they spent the entire month of Ramadan without food. They had nothing but water and sun-dried bulgur. [Hawar]

 

Manbij Military Council troops stopped a massive Daesh attack that began Thursday evening northwest of Manbij, killing more than 35 Daesh terrorists and destroying an armored vehicle and a headquarters. Battles continued in Ilan village. MMC fighters are searching the villages. [Hawar]

 

U.S. Central Command has begun an assessment to determine if a U.S. airstrike yesterday near Manbij resulted in unintentional civilian deaths, Pentagon Press Secretary Peter Cook told reporters today.

“That assessment is still in its early phase and we do not have all the facts at this time and we do not have any conclusions,” the Press Secretary said.

There have been a total of 202 allegations of civilian casualties during Operation Inherent Resolve, according to a DoD spokesman.

Of those 202 allegations, 143 were deemed not credible. Of the 59 deemed credible, 23 cases remain open and 36 have been closed. The 36 closed allegations resulted in the announcement of 55 civilian deaths and 29 civilian injuries, the spokesman said. [DoD]

 

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says Syrian Democratic Forces, supported by Coalition warplanes, are trying to regain villages it lost yesterday in a Daesh attack northwest of Manbij. Daesh captured and killed twenty-four civilians in Buweir village yesterday. [SyriaHR]

The Syrian Network for Human Rights, a separate organization, says Daesh beheaded fifteen civilians from the village. [EnabBaladi]

Daesh says it killed twenty-seven YPG fighters in its attack on areas west of Manbij yesterday. [A3maq]

DaeshDaily comment. Reality is that the people it massacred were civilians, many of them women and children.

 

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says a civilian was killed by a Coalition warplane in Hay Al-Sarb in Manbij city. Two other men were killed by snipers as they tried to leave Manbij city. [SyriaHR]

 

Daesh issues a video of YPG armored vehicles destroyed in battles on Al-Rabita Street in west Manbij. [A3maq]

 

Daesh says it destroyed a YPG armored vehicle with a guided missile northeast of Manbij. [A3maq]

 

Daesh says it recaptured Dudyan north of Aleppo from opposition groups. [A3maq]

An opposition commander says his troops then launched a counter attack and recaptured the town after heavy battles, killing or wounding many Daesh terrorists. He says that before the counter-attack, Coalition warplanes launched several airstrikes on Daesh locations. [ARA]

DaeshDaily comment. This seems like the tenth time we reported that Daesh recaptured this town. Daesh is trying desperately to keep its route to the Turkish border.

 

Battles continued near Sheikh Maqsoud between the YPG and Turkey backed opposition groups. The opposition is heavily shelling and rocketing the area. [Hawar]

Media sources say a female YPG commander was killed in the battles in Sheikh Maqsoud. The YPG captured a residential area near Sheikh Maqsoud, cutting off the opposition group’s supply line to east Aleppo. Media sources say the Syrian Army and the YPG, supported by Russian warplanes, have captured several areas in east Aleppo. [Dorar]

 

Internal clashes between opposition groups continued for the 6th day in the Azaz area, cutting off the road for displaced people who want to go to Afrin. One of the displaced people says the opposition groups are charging $200 dollars for every vehicle that wants to cross into Afrin. [Hawar]

 

Central and West (Homs, Hama, etc.)

A local activist says Iraqi and Afghani militias supporting the Syrian government reportedly burned down 20% of Tadmur city. He says a woman died when militias burned down her building in the city near the Tadmur silos. Russian warplanes launched extensive airstrikes on Daesh locations in the Al-Barda area east of Homs. [Qasioun]

 

Daesh says it stopped a Syrian Army attack on the Huwaisis area in Jab Al-Jarrah subdistrict east of Homs, killing eleven soldiers. [A3maq]

 

East (Deir Ez-Zor)

Local sources say Daesh appointed a new emir for the Shaitat area in Deir Ez-Zor, after the previous emir was recently killed. Daesh also arrested many people from the Shaitat tribe. [ARA]

 

Daesh issues a video of destroying 2 Syrian army cannons south of Deir Ez-Zor. [A3maq]

 

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

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says heavy battles erupted between Syrian Islamic groups and Daesh affiliates in Ain Dhikr and other areas west of Daraa. Daesh advanced in the Lajat area after a massive attack. [SyriaHR]

 

Opposition groups admitted they lost eight fighters who fell into a Daesh land mine in Lajat, northeast of Daraa. [EnabBaladi]

Daesh said yesterday it stopped an opposition attack on the Hawsh Hamad area in Lajat, killing eleven fighters and wounding nineteen. [A3maq]

 

A Syrian military source says Syrian troops destroyed 4 Daesh machine gun-mounted vehicles in Al-Qasr village northeast of Suwayda. [SyriaNow]

 

OTHER MIDDLE EAST/NORTH AFRICA REPORTS

 

North Africa

Egypt

Senior security sources say around 200 takfiri terrorists were killed during the week, after heavy bombing on areas south of Arish, Rafah, and Sheikh Zuweid. The sources say the airstrikes destroyed Ansar Bait Al-Maqdis headquarters and weapons and explosives storehouses, in addition to more than 50 vehicles and motorcycles. [VetoGate]

 

Two soldiers were killed and five wounded when an IED exploded on their armored vehicle in the Sadr Hitan area, in Central Sinai. [ElWatan]

 

Security sources say Ansar Bait Al-Maqdis planned to attack the checkpoint near the Sheikh Zuweid Police Station with a vehicle bomb, followed by an attack by armed terrorists, in addition to planting IEDs in the area to prevent military reinforcements. The sources say security men destroyed the vehicle bomb, in addition to 2 other vehicles, with RPG rockets and killed 15 terrorists. Security found and defused 3 IEDs in the area. [VetoGate] [ElWatan]

A security source says the terrorists used a Directorate of Agriculture vehicle in Arish that they hijacked earlier. [VetoGate]

 

A security source says a military patrol survived an IED explosion near Karm Al-Qawadees, south of Sheikh Zuweid. [ElWatan]

 

A security source says security destroyed an Ansar Bait Al-Maqdis storehouse that contained around 50 tons of explosives. [VetoGate]

 

Unknown armed men shot and wounded a 35-year-old woman in the head in Hay Al-Kharrafin in Rafah. [VetoGate]

 

Medical sources say a soldier was wounded by an IED in the Al-Hasan area in Rafah city. [VetoGate]

 

Libya

Northeast

A military source says one soldier was killed and six others wounded by a suicide attack near the Chinese Buildings area in west Benghazi. [Wasat]

Daesh says one of its Libyan suicide terrorists attacked Libyan National Army troops in the Chinese Buildings area, killing or wounding “tens” of soldiers and destroying 14 military vehicles and a tank. [JustPaste]

 

A Libyan special forces commander says one of his soldiers was killed in land mine explosion in the Qawarsha area, in west Benghazi. [Wasat]

He refutes earlier reports about capturing the Qawarsha Gate but says his troops captured strategic areas near the gate. [Libya24]

 

Central coast

A medical source says five soldiers were killed and twenty-three wounded in heavy battles in Sirte today. [Wasat]

 

SOCIAL MEDIA SOURCES

 

A video of today’s demonstrations in Baghdad [Yalla]

 

Iraqi fighters defusing a booby-trapped house [YouTube]

 

A Coalition airstrike destroying a Daesh vehicle carrying terrorists while they were fleeing from the Habbaniya area on June 29 [CJTF]

A video of Daesh terrorists captured by tribal fighters near Haditha [YouTube]

 

A Daesh terrorist killed by the Iraqi Army near Shirqat [YouTube]

 

Daesh supporters make fun of Nusra’s breaking ties with Al-Qaeda [Twitter] [Twitter] [Twitter]

 

A video of displaced families from the Qayara areas [Twitter]

 

Druze people from Suwayda celebrating the release of a local family that was kidnapped by Daesh few days ago [YouTube]

 

Videos of opposition groups targeting Daesh positions near Hawash Hamad in Lajat, Syria. [YouTube]

 

OTHER DAESH MEDIA

 

Daesh audio newsletter for today [JustPaste]

 

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