An Update On ISIS Activities

June 25, 2015

 

REPORTS FROM IRAQ

 

ANBAR

  • A report about 4,500 displaced Anbar families in Habbaniya. The families say the government only provides them with dry food items and they are in dire need of more food and also medical supplies.

 

  • The Sahwa leader in Qarma says Iraqi forces launched a major campaign in the Ksaiba area in Qarma and found a weapons and explosives storehouse. He also denies the reports about disputes between the PMFs and the Military leadership in Qarma.

 

  • Iraqi Joint Operations Command says Baghdad Operations Command killed 3 Daesh terrorists and a sniper in Qarma and destroyed 11 hideouts and two vehicles.

 

  • The Spokesman of Baghdad Operations Command says the Iraqi forces, supported by Coalition airpower, stopped a Daesh attack on Thirthar, killing 31 terrorists.

 

  • The IJOC says Anbar Operations Command destroyed 3 Daesh vehicles with machineguns in Ameriyat Al-Falluja.

 

  • The IJOC says the Iraqi Air Force launched 11 airstrikes on Daesh in several Iraqi cities and one killed 35 Daesh terrorists in Albu Shejel near Falluja.

 

  • The IJOC says Iraqi forces destroyed a Daesh vehicle and weapon storehouse in Al-Salam intersection near Ramadi.

 

  • The IJOC says Iraqi Army Aviation launched 6 airstrikes on Daesh in Anbar killing 11 terrorists and destroying 7 vehicles.

 

  • A source in Anbar Operations Command says dozens of Daesh terrorists were killed in military operations in Haditha and Baghdadi west of Ramadi. Kata’eb Hezbollah say they surrounded Ramadi from the east, west and south and captured hundreds of Daesh foreign terrorists.

DaeshDaily Comment: This report, which seems exaggerated, was not published on the KH website.

 

  • A member of Anbar GC refutes the news about Iraqi forces launching a major campaign to liberate Ramadi and says the situation has not changed. He says Iraqi forces are waiting for orders to launch the operation and meanwhile get attacked by Daesh continuously.

Another member of the GC says he will meet with the security and military commanders to discuss the reasons for the delay. He says Iraqi forces need only one victory in Anbar and Daesh will fall like “domino pieces” after that. He says the numbers of Daesh terrorists are decreasing and their leaders are fleeing to Turkey.

 

  • The local PMFs Commander in Qarma says Daesh threatens to behead anyone in Anbar who watches TV series about radical groups. Many Arab TV stations are broadcasting such shows during Ramadan.

 

  • Anbar GC says the prices of food and fuel items increased in a “scary way” in the cities and towns under Iraqi military control because of the continuous fights with Daesh and because there are no safe routes to transport goods. He says the situation in the cities under Daesh control is also catastrophic.

 

  • The Iraqi Air Force dropped pamphlets in Falluja asking citizens to report Daesh terrorists and promising to kick them out.

 

  • The Deputy Chairman of Anbar Governorate Council says there is a consensus in Anbar to approve the participation of Jordanian forces with the Coalition in fighting Daesh.

Later on, the Deputy said his statement was misunderstood and the local government in Anbar cannot approve Jordanian participation without approval from the central government. The Spokesman of Anbar GC says the Council has never discussed this.

 

  • Local sources say Daesh launched an attack on the Iraqi forces in Haditha. No further details were given.

DaeshDaily Comment: Haditha is the last Anbar city on the Euphrates River still under Iraqi forces’ control. Capturing Haditha and its Dam would put Daesh in full control of the water resources to many southern governorates. 

 

  • Daesh pamphlet distribution in Ramadi.

SALAHUDDIN

  • Iraqi Federal Police Commander says members of a terrorist cell responsible for many crimes against civilians were arrested in Baiji. They confessed to detonating houses, filming them, and then blaming Iraqi soldiers, under orders from the Daesh “minister of media”.

 

  • Iraqi Joint Operations Command says Salahuddin Operations Command killed 4 Daesh terrorists trying to sneak into Baiji Refinery.

 

  • The PMFs say Daesh terrorists are fleeing Baiji on boats to Shirqat. The PMFs also say 2 Daesh snipers were killed while hiding in a mosque.

 

  • Iraqi JOC says the 11th Brigade of the Iraqi Army destroyed an IED factory near the Strategic Line.

 

  • The IJOC says Dijla Operations Command arrested a Daesh terrorist and defused an IED in Mashariya in Salahuddin.

 

  • The IJOC says Iraqi Federal Police killed 4 Daesh female snipers and 5 other terrorists in Albu Jwari. It also says they destroyed a Daesh vehicle in Samarra. A source in the IFP says they killed 3 female snipers (Afghani, Chinese and Indian) near Baiji.

 

  • Daesh publishes photos of its snipers targeting Iraqi soldiers.

 

  • A Sunni bloc in the Iraqi Parliament says Daesh executed one of its candidates in the previous parliamentary elections.

BAGHDAD

  • The Chairman of Defense and Security Committee in the Iraqi Parliament says the crash of an Iraqi F16 jet during training in the US is “suspicious”. He also says the jet was not Iraqi “yet” since it was not officially delivered to Iraq and held the US government responsible for compensating the family of the pilot. Iraqi MoD says the jet went down while on a “training mission” from an airbase in Arizona.

 

  • The MoD says the Coalition launched 2 airstrikes on Daesh, in Baghdadi in Anbar and Sinjar in Ninewa.

 

  • A Sunni MP says he was kidnapped by Daesh supporters while trying to leave Jeddah airport in Saudi Arabia but the Saudi security forces raided the villa where he was held and freed him. The Iraqi Parliament opened an investigation of the MP traveling to Saudi Arabia without approval from Parliament.

 

  • Iraqi Federal Police Command says its Intelligence Service arrested the media officer of Daesh’s “wilayat al-janoub” (the south governorate) in Adhamiya in northeast Baghdad.

 

  • A security source says a civilian was killed and 5 injured when an IED exploded in an industrial area in Basmaya in south Baghdad. Another security source says an IED exploded in Mada’in in south Baghdad killing one civilian and injuring 3.

 

  • A security source says one civilian was killed and 7 injured when a car bomb exploded in Shaab in northeast Baghdad. Daesh says it attacked Civil Defense units in Shaab with a car bomb parked on the roadside.

 

  • A security source says a sticker IED exploded in a bus in Nadha in downtown Baghdad, injuring 6 civilians.

 

  • A security source says an IED exploded in Bayya in south Baghdad killing one civilian and injuring 7.

 

  • A security source says a roadside IED exploded in Mahmudiya in south Baghdad, killing a child and injuring 2 civilians.

 

  • The IJOC says the Coalition launched 8 airstrikes on several Iraqi cities (2 in Baiji, 1 in Ramadi, 4 in Mosul and 1 in Baghdadi), killing 5 terrorists and destroying 2 vehicles and 24 hiding places.

 

  • A security source says armed militiamen shot and killed a civilian driving his car in Baladiyat in east Baghdad. Another source says the militias kidnapped a man and his son in the Camp Sara area in downtown Baghdad.

 

  • Former PM Maliki says he has sent his answers to the Mosul Fall Investigative Committee.

DaeshDaily Comment: The Committee had said it was waiting for answers from Maliki and from the KRG’s President Masoud Barzani before it issues the final report. The KRG announced Barzani will not answer the questions sent by the Committee.

  • The main Sunni bloc in the Iraqi Parliament says only 15% of PMFs are Sunnis, while the allocations in the budget for Sunnis equal 40%. Anbar is the one Sunni governorate with a high percentage; it recruited 7,500 fighters out of the 10,000 requested from the governorate. Ninewa was asked for 13,000 fighters and the local government submitted 7,000 names, but MPs from Ninewa say only 2,000 have actually volunteered and the rest are “Ghost Soldiers.” Many of the trainees were to be former police. This discrepancy caused the Iraqi government to stop paying salaries for all MoI employees in Ninewa.  

 

  • Iraqi Minister of Higher Education says a donation campaign to support the PMFs will start in Iraqi universities and other educational institutions in the coming days.

 

  • A video of an Iraqi reporter being shot while covering a battle against Daesh.

 

DIYALA

  • A security source says a policeman was killed and 3 injured when an IED exploded on their patrol in Mansouriya east of Baquba.

KIRKUK

  • A security source says 3 civilians were injured when an IED exploded near a commercial area in east Kirkuk.

 

  • A source in the Turkmen PMFs says the Iraqi Air Force launched airstrikes on Daesh in the Basheer area south of Kirkuk, killing and injuring many of them and destroying vehicles.

 

NINEWA

  • A local source in Ninewa says Daesh executed 4 civilians publicly in downtown Tal Afar, accusing them of “spying”. Eyewitnesses say Daesh shot and killed a doctor in Mosul accused of “not cooperating”. The eyewitnesses also say an armed group opened fire on Daesh fighters in Ta’meem in north Mosul killing 14 of them.

 

  • The leader of Yazidi fighters in the Sinjar Mountain area says his troops have resorted to a defensive posture because they lack weapons and ammunition. He asks the central government to provide them with weapons.

 

  • An officer in the Peshmerga says the Coalition launched an airstrike on Daesh in Najma village in Hatra, killing 7 terrorists. He also says the Coalition launched another airstrike on Daesh Al-Khazer, 45 km east of Mosul, destroying 5 vehicles and killing many terrorists. A Peshmerga commander says the Coalition bombed 3 Daesh locations in Al-Khazer and destroyed them completely.

 

  • Daesh says it distributes money to poor people in south Mosul. And manufactures Katyusha rocket launchers. Daesh builds a water fountain in Tal Afar.

 

  • The 8th installment of the memoir by one of Saddam’s journalists about joining Daesh. The “journalist” was in Baathist groups in Iraq after 2003, then got asylum in Finland, then joined Daesh.

 

REPORTS FROM SYRIA

 

  • A Turkish official says a Daesh car bomb that attacked Kobane didn’t come from Turkey.  Official Syrian TV had said the car had entered Kobane through the Turkish border.

A YPG spokesman says 35 Daesh terrorists entered Kobane from the southwest in 5 cars, holding Free Syrian Army flags and wearing its uniforms. When they reached the border they detonated one of the cars and opened fire randomly. He says 3 of them went back across the Turkish border. Medical sources say 15 people were killed and 75 injured in the attack. The YPG says 30 Daesh terrorists were killed in the attack. Eyewitnesses say some Daesh terrorists were dressed as YPG fighters.

Daesh says its terrorists took control of the Pinar crossing border between Syria and Turkey and says the clashes continue in Kobane.

 

A video of the car bomb explosion in Kobane.

Rudaw TV publishes a video of Kobane and analysis of the attack. President Barzani issued a statement about the attack, asking the Coalition to help the people of Kobane.

 

  • Daesh attacks the central prison in Hasaka with a car bomb and clashes erupt with Syrian government forces there.

Local activists say people started leaving their houses after Daesh entered areas in Hasaka. Daesh says its fighters entered western Hasaka and killed 70 Syrian government soldiers.

 

  • Daesh sells 42 Yazidi women in Al-Mayadeen city in Syria. There is no news about the children who were with them.

 

  • Daesh beheads 12 members of the rival Jaish Al-Islam militia near Damascus (Video). Daesh says its terrorists regained control of Al-Afai Mountain in East Qalmoun from Jaish Al-Islam.

 

 

REPORTS FROM OTHER MIDDLE EAST COUNTRIES  

 

  • Daesh takes over Zamzam near Sirte in Libya without resistance. The town is inhabited by the Gaddafi tribe and supporters.

Daesh publishes photos of Sinai hospital in Sirte.

 

  • A Daesh collection of its reports.

 

  • Daesh Twitter accounts of the day

https://twitter.com/ibs_dms

https://twitter.com/FayslAlnoaime

https://twitter.com/u6_ln

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