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June 27, 2016

June 27, 2016

Iraqi Troops

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Today’s Major Developments

Iraq declares complete victory in Falluja.

Coalition bombards Daesh targets in Shirqat; 5,000+ residents have already fled.

Agreement among Iraqi and Kurdish ministers will unify PMF forces for Mosul liberation and cut Nujaifi out.

Coalition bombing increases in Ninewa.

Erdogan issues surprise apology to Russia for downed military plane.

Rebel force in Syria takes more of Manbij from Daesh.

Daesh unleashes eight suicide attacks in Yemen.

Nigerian Army reports freeing 5,000 people from Boko Haram.

 

REPORTS FROM IRAQ

 

NATIONAL NEWS

The Falluja Operations Commander announced on Sunday that Falluja was fully liberated. Prime Minister Abadi arrived in the city and, in a symbolic gesture, raised the Iraqi flag near a bridge in the city where Daesh last year had executed and hung the body of an Iraqi soldier. The manager of Ameriyat Al-Falluja subdistrict says Iraqi forces released 21,000 men from Falluja after investigating them, while 2,000 Daesh suspects were sent to Baghdad for further investigations. [Mada]

Photos of Prime Minister Abadi in Falluja [BasNews]

 

The Department of State issued a statement saying the Special Presidential Envoy for the international coalition to counter Daesh, Brett McGurk, congratulated Iraqi Prime Minister Haider Al-Abadi and the security forces for completely liberating Fallujah from Daesh control. [Mada]

 

Colonel Christopher Garver, the Coalition Spokesman, says the Coalition provided airstrikes and intelligence, to Iraqi forces in Falluja and will continue to do so. He also says the military operation was difficult and there is still much to be done to return people to their houses. He also says Daesh is suffering from moral deterioration and is an organization in chaos. Daesh is also finding it difficult to pay its terrorists. He also says more than 725,000 displaced people have returned to their houses, and 25,000 Daesh terrorists have been killed thus far. [Mada]

 

The Minister of Defense says Daesh controls only 10% of Iraq areas and is losing large numbers of its terrorists. He says Coalition warplanes are providing a lot of support in the liberation operations. He says there is no need for American or Turkish or any other ground troops in the Ninewa liberation operations. He says Iraqi forces will advance toward Mosul carefully in order to preserve civilians lives and the infrastructure of the city. [BasNews]

 

A hugely important meeting was held in Baghdad among major government leaders including the Ministers of Defense and Interior and the KRG Minister of Interior, intended to confront the major political complications that could undermine the Ninewa liberation campaign. As a result, the Chairman of the PMF Commission says 15,000 PMF fighters from Ninewa will participate in the Ninewa liberation operations. The Minister of Defense says all the people of Ninewa can be involved in the operations, and that the Coalition will provide support and training for all the Ninewa PMFs. The KRG’s Minister of Interior says the KRG supports this solution. [Sumaria]

The unspoken but critical indirect message was then translated by a Christian PMF commander from Ninewa. All those fighters will be under unified government and PMF Commission control. He says those 15,000 fighters won’t have anything to do with former Governor Nujaifi’s National Mobilization Forces (NMF), which Nujaifi has repeatedly tried to inject into the liberation campaign under his leadership. The PMF commander says Nujaifi has two options: either to join the new force or to dissolve his NMF. [BasNews]

DaeshDaily comment. Nujaifi’s scheme has had the support of Turkey’s President Erdogan who sent Turkish troops to Bashiqa with the connivance of KRG President Barzani and refused to remove them despite open hostility from Prime Minister Al-Abadi and the Iraqi government, which has disdained Nujaifi and the NMFs from the start. Today’s news seems to show, first of all, that the US strategists understood this scheme for what it really was and put some heavy pressure on to create a unified approach to the Ninewa liberation. Perhaps the agreement of the KRG minister indicates that Barzani has decided to back off. As for Erdogan, he simultaneously made headlines of his own yesterday by finally and surprisingly apologizing for Turkey’s downing of the Russian military plane earlier in the Syria conflict.

    All of this is extremely important to the war effort, and in our opinion appears to solve the biggest obstacle to restoring Iraqi control of Ninewa. However, it may prove to be even more important in achieving political reconciliation after Daesh is defeated.

The Chairman of the CoR’s Security and Defense Committee says the Committee has recommended to Prime Minister Abadi that the PMF force in Ninewa be formed without regard to ethnic, partisan, or tribal loyalties. [Sumaria]

 

The Combat Joint Task Force says Coalition warplanes conducted 23 airstrikes on Daesh in Iraq, 17 of them in Ninewa, including around Qayara (9), Mosul (6), and Tal Afar (2). The continuing Daesh attacks in Anbar are reflected in the strikes in Ramadi (1), Hit (2) Baghdadi (1), Albu Hayat (1), and Rutba (1). [CJTF]

DaeshDaily comment. The number of airstrikes seems to be rising, and they are now concentrated heavily on Ninewa as might be expected.

 

BAGHDAD

 

Security-related incidents reported

North (Tarmiya, Taji, etc.)

Iraqi Army 22nd brigade defused 5 roadside IEDs in the Qanater area. [BOC Facebook Page]

 

Northeast (Adhamiya, etc.)

An MoI source says one person was killed and eight wounded when an IED exploded near an industrial area in Talbiya. [Mada]

 

East (Sadr City, New Baghdad, etc.)

An MoI source says a sticky IED exploded under a small bus in Hay Tareq, killing the driver and wounding five other people. [Mada]

An MoI source says a Ministry of Electricity employee was killed when armed men shot him and stole his car in Palestine Street. [Mada]

 

Southeast (Mada’in, etc.)

An MoI source says two people were killed and seven wounded when an IED exploded near a livestock market in Nahrawan. [Mada]

 

South (Dora, Mahmudiya)

The Military Intelligence Service says it raided a Daesh guesthouse in south Baghdad, and captured several terrorists who were planning attacks in Baghdad city. (video). [Ghad]

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

IFP troops found a weapons and explosives storehouse in the Fatouh area. [BOC Facebook Page]

Iraqi Army 55th brigade found a weapons and explosives cache in the Karaghoul area in Yusufiyah. [MoD Website]

 

West (Mansour, Ghazaliya, Abu Ghraib)

An MoI source says an MoD officer was killed and another wounded when armed men shot at their civilian vehicle on the highway in Abu Ghraib. [Mada]

 

The Anbar Operations Command spokesman says a suicide terrorist detonated himself in a (Sunni) mosque in the Zaidan area in Abu Ghraib, killing five people and wounding eighteen. [Mada]

 

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

 

ANBAR

Falluja

The Al-Iraqia TV issued a video of the confessions of “tribal leaders” who appeared in a Daesh video pledging allegiance to Daesh in a public ceremony in Falluja last year. Daesh had beheaded Samir Murad, a captured Iraqi soldier during the ceremonies. They were captured while trying to sneak out with displaced families. [PUKMedia]

DaeshDaily comment. When Daesh published this video, we said that some of these tribal leaders were essentially forced to attend, and some attendees shown were not actually tribal leaders. One was a farmer, another a blacksmith. Daesh got what it wanted from the video, to demonstrate tribal support for Daesh. However, it also generated more tension between Shia and Kurds on one side and Sunnis on the other, as the soldier killed was a Shia Kurd. Now the arrest and, it is argued, the humiliation of these tribal leaders has created anger among Sunnis. However, capturing people who collaborated with Daesh sends a strong and important message to Daesh supporters: Daesh will no longer be there to protect you from prosecution; and when Iraqi forces come, you will be brought to justice.

 

The deputy PMF commander, Abu Mahdi Al-Muhandis, says the PMFs will remain and hold the ground in Falluja areas. [IraqPress]

 

The IWMC says Iraqi forces killed 96 Daesh terrorists in different areas in Falluja during the past 24 hours. [Ghad]

Iraqi forces killed 4 Daesh terrorists and wounded 2, and destroyed 6 machine gun mounted vehicles, a vehicle bomb, 2 weapons caches, and 2 guesthouses, and defused 691 IEDs, 2 booby-trapped mosques, 38 houses, a school and a water station in different areas in Falluja District. [BOC Facebook Page]

 

Falluja city. A video of Iraqi forces in Hay Al-Jolan. The area was the last Daesh-held area in Falluja, and it was liberated Sunday. [AIN]

Photos of the Iraqi forces attack on Hay Al-Jolan [Sumaria]

 

The Minister of Planning reopened the Falluja mayor’s office and other service directorates in the city. [Mada]

 

The IFP commander says his troops killed more than 1,500 Daesh terrorists in Falluja, including the 2 commanders responsible for defending the city, and destroyed 90 vehicle bombs. He also says his troops found documents on 266 people who conducted terrorist attacks in Baghdad. [Mada]

DaeshDaily comment. The info identifying potential terrorists could be particularly valuable in reducing the violence in Baghdad. This report provides further evidence that much of Baghdad’s violence has come from people hiding out in Falluja.

 

A video states that more than 7,000 men who left Falluja are detained in Anbar pending screening. (All men with escaping groups are subject to this screening.) 13,000 have already been released while 2,046 have been determined to have links to Daesh, according to the Anbar Police commander. [Sumaria]

 

Expressing concern about the extremely dire conditions for more than 85,000 people who have fled the Falluja and its surroundings over the last month, the United Nations food relief agency today said it is sending additional rations to provide immediate food relief to the growing number of displaced.

 

“The people of Fallujah have been suffering under siege for many months without access to food or medical care. Reaching them now with life-saving food and other humanitarian assistance is the absolute top priority,” the World Food Programme’s (WFP) Deputy Country Director in Iraq, Maha Ahmed, said in a news release.

“The situation is heart-breaking,” she added. “We met a young mother this week who escaped the violence in Fallujah with her new born baby in her arms – he was only 4 days old when they fled.” [UN]

 

A report appeared about Ahmed Al-Ma’amouri, the 21 year old Iraqi soldier who was shot by in the leg by a Daesh sniper while he was rescuing a wounded civilian in Falluja. [Sumaria]

 

North. The IWMC says Iraqi Army 14th division artillery targeted Daesh gatherings in the Azraqiya area northwest of the city, killing many terrorists. [Ghad]

The PMF Commission issued a statement saying it found hundreds of tons of weapons and ammunition in Azraqiya. It says that location was Daesh’s main storehouse in Anbar. [Etejah]

 

West. The Anbar Operations commander says Coalition warplanes destroyed 2 Daesh vehicles that were attacking Iraqi forces in the Halabsa area, west of Falluja. [Sumaria]

The Chairman of the Anbar Provincial Council says Iraqi forces started a military operation to liberate the Halabsa and Albu Alwan areas. [Sumaria] He says Iraqi forces killed 20 Daesh terrorists and destroyed 6 vehicle bombs in the operation. [Maalomah]

 

South. A tribal PMF commander says Iraqi forces broke into several areas in Ameriyat Al-Falluja, killing 40 Daesh terrorists. [Maalomah]

 

East. The Falluja Operations commander says the road between Baghdad and Falluja, closed for two years, was reopened for military vehicles, and civilian vehicles will soon be allowed to use it. [Maalomah]

 

Ramadi

The IWMC says Daesh brought in new rockets with ranges of up to 20 km, and the IAF targeted the Khaldiya storehouse where they were kept, destroying them and killing 13 terrorists. [Ghad]

[Ghad]

 

The IWMC also says the IAF targeted Daesh trenches and tunnels near the highway in Jazeera Khaldiya, killing 37 terrorists. The IAF also destroyed a Daesh hisbah office in Jazeera Khaldiya, killing “tens” of terrorists. [AIN]

 

The IWMC says Iraqi forces defused 7 IEDs in the Albu Aitha area. [Ghad]

 

Hit/Haditha

The Jazeera Operations commander says Iraqi forces conducted a large-scale military operation targeting Daesh locations and gatherings in Jazeera Hit, killing 15 Daesh terrorists and destroying 2 vehicle bombs. Iraqi forces also found 24 IEDs and 2 explosives vests in Hay Al-Mashatel in Hit. [Mada]

 

Rutba/Western Anbar

The Mayor of Rutba says IFP troops and tribal fighters stopped a Daesh attack from 3 sides on the western areas in Rutba District, destroying a vehicle bomb and a machine gun-mounted vehicle and forcing the rest of the terrorists to flee. [Sumaria]

 

Daesh says it conducted a suicide attack on Iraqi forces at the Sudani intersection in north Rutba, killing twenty-six soldiers. [A3maq] [A3maq]

Here Daesh says it attacked Iraqi Army positions at the Sudani Bridge intersection near Rutba. Daesh says a Syrian suicide terrorist detonated his car bomb at the intersection, then its terrorists attacked Iraqi forces killing more than twenty-five soldiers. Daesh says the battles are ongoing. [JustPaste]

 

The French Ministry of Defense says French and American warplanes destroyed a Daesh car-rigging factory in Al-Qa’im. It says the warplanes had to conduct 2 separate airstrikes on the factory because of its size. [Mada]

 

SALAHUDDIN

Shirqat/Baiji

The Salahuddin Governor says more than 5,500 people have fled Daesh-controlled Shirqat and north Salahuddin. He also says the provincial government doesn’t have the capacity to deal with such numbers, but local tribes are offering shelter and help. [Sumaria]

A Counter Terrorism Service commander says he expects a revolution against Daesh in Shirqat. He confirms that more than 5,000 civilians have left the district already, a clear indication that people don’t want to be under Daesh control. [Mada]

 

A Salahuddin Operations Command source says Coalition warplanes destroyed an IED and explosives factory in Al-Jurf village in Shirqat. [Ghad]

 

A PUK official says Coalition warplanes bombed a Daesh hideout in Shirqat, killing the Daesh wali of Shirqat, Qusai Al-Ahmadi. He also says 28 Daesh terrorists were killed or wounded in the airstrike. [PUKMedia]

 

A PMF spokesman says 155 Daesh terrorists fled Shirqat toward the Ninewa desert. He also says Shirqat will be liberated very soon. [Maalomah]

 

The IWMC says Iraqi forces secured 477 citizens who escaped Daesh areas in Shirqat. [Ghad]

 

A Salahuddin Operations Command source says Iraqi forces captured new areas south of Shirqat, including Al-Baj Hills and Al-Naml village. The source also says Iraqi forces defused 60 IEDs and the IAA destroyed 6 Daesh vehicle bombs. [Ghad]

 

Daesh says it shelled the Iraqi Army in Makhoul subdistrict with mortars, destroying 2 vehicles. [JustPaste]

DaeshDaily comment. This is Daesh’s way of admitting that Iraqi forces captured the subdistrict.

 

Daesh issues a video of a suicide attack with a vehicle bomb on Iraqi forces in Al-Dibis village in Makhoul. [A3maq]

 

Iraqi forces, and based on information provided by displaced families, captured 7 Daesh terrorists west of Baiji. [MoD Website]

 

Tikrit

Salahuddin Operations Command troops captured 4 Daesh suspects in Tikrit. [MoD Website]

 

Tooz

The IWMC says Iraqi forces destroyed a Daesh Humvee in the Zarqa area, killing the terrorists inside. [Ghad]

Daesh says it targeted “PMF fighters” in the Maidan and Zarqa areas in Tooz with 162 mortars. [JustPaste] Here Daesh says it attacked Iraqi forces “with all kinds of weapons” in the Zarqa area, then detonated 2 IEDs on Army vehicles, killing or wounding the soldiers inside. [JustPaste]

 

A security source says Turkmen PMFs opened training camps for boys who want to join the PMFs (photos). [BasNews]

 

DIYALA

Baquba

A security source says the police captured a man wanted on terrorism charges in west Baquba. [Sumaria]

 

A security source says armed men shot and killed two farmers near Hussein Al-Hamadi village, 14 km (9 miles) southwest of Baquba. [Sumaria]

 

Muqdadiya/Abu Saida

The Diyala Police Chief says he formed a committee to investigate the Sunni alliance allegations about violations in Wajihiya, just south of Muqdadiya. He says the Diyala police took journalists to Al-Aswad village in Wajihiya to confirm the absence of such violations. He asks the politicians to keep their differences away from security issues. The manager of Wajihiya subdistrict also confirmed that there were no displacements, killings, or house burnings as the Sunni Alliance claimed recently. [Sumaria]

 

The Dijla Operations commander says his troops liberated an Army captain and a civilian short time after they were kidnapped on a main road in Muqdadiya. [Sumaria]

 

Northern Diyala

The Chairman of the Security Committee in Diyala Provincial Council says security destroyed a Daesh training camp in the Himrin Basin. He says Daesh was planning to send 10 terrorists per month from this area to Diyala and other governorates. He also says Daesh is trying to recruit women as suicide terrorists in Diyala. [Sumaria]

 

A security source says Iraqi forces confiscated more than 150 kg of C4 hidden in the Himrin Hills area. [Sumaria]

 

Daesh says it damaged an Iraqi Army bulldozer with an IED in the Himrin Hills area. Daesh also says it detonated an IED on an Iraqi Army patrol in the same area. [JustPaste]

 

Daesh publishes 3 photos of attacking “PMF positions” in Udhaim with mortars. [JustPaste]

 

NINEWA

Mosul

A security source says Coalition warplanes targeted Daesh in several areas in Mosul, destroying several vehicles and hideouts and killing more than 20 terrorists, including local commanders. The source also says many Daesh terrorists have now abandoned their personal vehicles and are now traveling by taxi or motorcycle in order to avoid the airstrikes. The source also says unknown armed men killed more than 3 Daesh terrorists, and destroyed a vehicle in 3 different attacks in Mosul city. [Karemlash]

 

A PUK official says Coalition warplanes bombed a Daesh vehicle in Mosul, killing the Daesh’s war official in Ninewa and another local terrorist. He says Coalition warplanes also bombed a Daesh vehicle on the road between Mosul and Qayara, killing the Daesh finance official of south Ninewa and 3 of his associates. [PUKMedia]

 

The CoR’s Security and Defense Committee Chairman says that, according to intelligence reports, Daesh leaders are fleeing Mosul, anticipating the start of the Iraqi forces liberation operations. [AIN]

 

Kata’eb Al-Mosul says it killed a Daesh security member on the road to Tal Abata west of Mosul. [KM Facebook Page]

 

Makhmur/Qayara

The Ninewa Operations commander says 3 brigades of local police totaling 1,000 men arrived in Makhmur to participate in the Ninewa liberation operations after finishing their training at Speicher base. [BasNews]

DaeshDaily comment. These are the people who really cared about liberating their city from Daesh. Unlike former Governor Nujaifi’s so called National Mobilization Forces, these people responded to the Iraqi government call and went into the official training in Salahuddin. The ones who didn’t want to make the effort and preferred to stay in Kurdistan, later joined Nujaifi.

 

The IWMC says Iraqi Army 71st brigade destroyed a Daesh mortar unit near Al-Nassr village, killing 4 terrorists. [Ghad]

A Ninewa police source says Coalition warplanes killed 10 Daesh terrorists and destroyed 3 vehicles in the Haj Ali area. [BasNews]

The JOC spokesman says the military operations south of Mosul have not stopped. He says the Iraqi Armed Forces Chief of Staff said that Iraqi forces stopped the operations in order to organize but media outlets interpreted that statement as a halt in the operations. [PUKMedia]

Coalition warplanes destroyed a Daesh vehicle bomb and a truck loaded with ammunition in Qayara, killing 4 terrorists. Coalition warplanes also destroyed 2 Daesh ferries in the Safina area. [MoD Website]

 

Northwest (Tal Afar, Sinjar)

Daesh says one of its snipers killed a Peshmerga fighter in the Al-Khazer area. It says it targeted the area with mortars, damaging a vehicle. [JustPaste]

 

KURDISTAN

A local source says Turkish warplanes bombed several villages in the Qandil Mountains. [PUKMedia]

 

The commander of Iran’s ground forces says “terrorists” are attacking Iran from areas in northern Iraq. He threatens to target these areas. The KRG had issued a statement asking Iran and Turkey to stop their attacks on the KRG areas, and asking the PKK and opposition groups in Iran not to use Kurdistan as a launching pad against Iran or Turkey. Five civilians were wounded by Iranian shelling on the Haj Omara area. [ROJ] [ROJ]

 

A source says the KRG’s attorney general’s office issued a warrant to arrest Rafi’ Al-Rifai’, the self-proclaimed mufti of Iraq, after getting complaints from families of Daesh victims. Rifai’, who has praised Daesh more than once, is actually living in Kurdistan. [ROJ]

DaeshDaily comment. This is not the only dubious anti-Iraq character being allowed to live comfortably in Kurdistan. The important question is why this has been allowed.

 

REPORTS FROM TURKEY

 

In a surprise development, Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan apologized for his country’s downing of a Russian military plane in November 2015. In so doing he moved toward overcoming the hostility that had prevailed in Russia-Turkey relations since that incident. [Rudaw]

 

REPORTS FROM SYRIA

 

Northeast (Hasaka, Raqqa)

The YPG says it stopped a Daesh attack east of Shaddadi in eastern Hasaka, killing or wounding many terrorists. Two of its fighters were killed. [ARA]

 

Local activists say the Turkish Army targeted the western area of Tal Abyad on the border with heavy machine guns, causing damage.

 

Local activists say Syrian Democratic Forces destroyed a Daesh vehicle bomb that was attacking a military barrier south of Suluk in Raqqa District. The SDF also clashed with Daesh terrorists trying to sneak into the area. Daesh launched 7 rockets on Ain Eissa, wounding three civilians. [BasNews]

 

Daesh terrorists sneaked into Habsawi village, north of Raqqa, and clashed with Syrian Democratic Forces, killing or wounding several fighters. [Qasioun]

 

Northwest (Aleppo, Idlib)

Manbij campaign. Manbij Military Council troops advanced in Manbij city and are 1 km away from the main market. [Hawar]

 

The MMC says it stopped a Daesh counter-attack on the silos area south of Manbij. Coalition warplanes meanwhile launched several airstrikes on Daesh locations in Manbij areas. [Qasioun]

The Combat Joint Task Force says Coalition warplanes conducted 7 airstrikes on Daesh locations near Manbij. [CJTF]

 

According to a pro-MMC report, people from Manbij are buying new colorful clothes, for the first time in two years, from a local market in Haya Kabira village, 10 km (6 miles) east of Manbij. [Hawar]

 

A Syria Democratic Forces source says the SDF broke Daesh defense lines in south Manbij and captured Al-Matahen intersection, killing 16 terrorists. The source says the clashes are ongoing. [BasNews]

 

Daesh says it conducted 2 suicide attacks on YPG troops north and south of Manbij. [A3maq]

Daesh publishes photos of battles south of Manbij, including a suicide attack that was conducted by a Syrian terrorist. [JustPaste]

 

Daesh says it killed fifty-one YPG fighters in the Manbij area, mostly by IEDs in booby-trapped houses. [JustPaste]

Daesh says it destroyed a YPG armored vehicle and an SUV in Dha’ifa village, north of Manbij (video). [A3maq]

 

An opposition commander had said opposition groups, supported by Turkish artillery, surprised Daesh in these villages north of Aleppo and captured them. [ARA]

 

Other Aleppo incidents. Turkey backed opposition groups attacked Sheikh Maqsoud in Aleppo city and the Ashrafiya area, but the YPG stopped the attacks, killing or wounding several fighters. [BasNews]

 

Daesh says its terrorists sneaked into 7 villages north of Aleppo, and captured them, forcing opposition groups to flee. [JustPaste]

 

Central and West (Homs, Hama, etc.)

A Syrian military source says Syrian warplanes bombed Daesh locations in the Sha’er oilfield and Huwaisis areas, east of Homs. [SANA]

Daesh issues a video of its terrorists in Huwaisis village. Daesh had said it captured the village on Sunday. [DawaAlhaq]

 

Daesh publishes photos of an attack on Syrian troops southwest of Qaryatayn. [DawaAlhaq]

 

East (Deir Ez-Zor)

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has spoken out against the reported killing of 25 children in recent air-strikes in the Syrian town of Al-Quriya, a village near Deir Ez-Zor. “Nothing justifies attacks on children–no matter where they are–nor under whose control they live,” the UN agency said in a statement. “UNICEF deplores these attacks and calls on all parties to the conflict to keep children out of harm’s way.”

According to the statement, issued on 26 June, three attacks reportedly hit heavily crowded areas in the town, including a mosque during prayer time. Health workers were reported to have pulled bodies of children out from under the rubble.

UNICEF said that amid an intensification of violence, attacks on children in Syria are becoming commonplace, with callous disregard for their lives. It also recalled that under international humanitarian law, the killing and maiming of children is a grave violation. [UN]

More than 250,000 people have been killed and 4.8 million have been forced to leave the country since the Syria conflict started.

 

Daesh issues a video of executing five activists in Deir Ez-Zor, after accusing them of spying. The activists were killed in 5 different gruesome ways. [DawaAlhaq]

 

Daesh issues a video of its religious activities in Deir Ez-Zor. [DawaAlhaq]

Daesh publishes photos of its charity activities in Albu Kamal. [JustPaste]

 

DaeshDaily comment: We invite you to read the previous three stories again, just for the contrast, so as to get the appropriate impression of Daesh’s sincerity.

 

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

Local sources say opposition groups launched attacks on Daesh areas in the Yarmouk Camp and Tadhamun neighborhood, killing or wounding several Daesh terrorists and capturing buildings and streets. [Qasioun]

 

However, Daesh says it captured the Ja’ouna area in eastern Yarmouk Camp after trapping members of Al-Qaeda there for 80 days. Daesh says heavy clashes erupted in the last 3 days and Al-Qaeda terrorists withdrew through the sewage tunnels after 6 of them were killed. Daesh also says Al-Qaeda, Jaish Al-Islam, Ahrar Al-Sham, and other opposition groups attacked its positions in the Yelda area, but it stopped the attack, killing or wounding 13 of them. [A3maq] [JustPaste] [JustPaste]

Daesh publishes photos of the battles. [JustPaste] [JustPaste]

 

OTHER MIDDLE EAST/NORTH AFRICA REPORTS

 

Neighboring countries

Jordan

Local activists warn of a humanitarian catastrophe in the Rakban camp after the Jordanian government closed the border on Syrian refugees, stopping the aid supplies to the camp. [ARA]

A local activist says 15-20 families are leaving the camp every day and going back to Daesh controlled areas. He also says an unaccompanied child died because of the heat wave and because of the water shortage in the camp. [Arabi21]

Daesh claimed responsibility for the suicide attack on the Rakban refugee camp, near the Syria-Jordan border, and issued a video of the attack, saying it targeted an “American base.” Seven Jordanian soldiers were killed in the terrorist attack on June 21st. [A3maq] [A3maq]

DaeshDaily comment. Daesh will do anything to make the lives of IDPs and refugees miserable. It actually helps their recruitment, because young men in this situation can be more easily  bought off with a small salary to join Daesh.

 

Saudi Arabia

The Saudi police says it captured a former Army official in his 50s who beheaded his wife in Rimah governorate north of Riyadh. A local newspaper says the police found Daesh documents in the killer’s house. [Sumaria]

 

North Africa

Egypt

A senior security source says Egyptian troops shelled a convoy that was approaching a security barrier south of Sheikh Zuweid, killing 10 terrorists and wounding 30. [VetoGate]

A security source says 2 Ansar Bait Al-Maqdis terrorists were killed while attacking a security barrier south of Sheikh Zuweid. [ElWatan]

 

A security source says an Ansar Bait Al-Maqdis sniper killed a policeman in the Joura area, south of Sheikh Zuweid. Security defused 3 IEDs in Arish city. [ElWatan]

Security captured a dangerous Ansar Bait Al-Maqdis suspect in a hideout in Har Al-Tarabin, in south Sheikh Zuweid. [ElWatan]

Armed men shot and wounded a civilian in Abu Tawila village in south Sheikh Zuweid. [ElWatan]

 

A security armored vehicle survived an IED explosion in Arish. [ElWatan]

 

A security source says Ansar Bait Al-Maqdis terrorists attacked a Sinai Cement Factory bus, south of Arish, killing an engineer and severely wounding four workers. [ElWatan]

Daesh says it targeted an Egyptian Army personnel carrier with an IED in the Bir Lahfan area south of Arish. [JustPaste]

 

A security source says security destroyed a 100 kg barrel of explosives west of Arish. The barrel was supposed to target police vehicles. [ElWatan]

Daesh says it targeted a police minesweeper with an IED in the Kilo 17 area west of Arish. Then its terrorists attacked the police with light and midsized weapons. [JustPaste]

 

Libya

Northeast

Libyan troops captured Al-Jawhara resort in west Benghazi after heavy battles with Daesh. [Libya24]

Libyan Special Forces captured Najila neighborhood in the Qawarsha area. [Libya24]

 

Libyan police captured a Daesh terrorist while he was trying to flee from the Al-Saberi area. [Libya24]

 

Daesh says it stopped a Libyan National Army attack on Shajar Street in west Benghazi, killing or wounding several soldiers and damaging 2 tanks. [JustPaste]

Daesh says a Libyan Army armored vehicle was destroyed after Daesh planted mines on Al-Shajar Street, killing the soldiers inside. [JustPaste]

 

Libyan warplanes conducted several airstrikes on Daesh locations south of Ajdabiya and in west Benghazi. [Libya24]

 

Central coast

The Libyan National Accord Government Military spokesman says Daesh is trapped in a 7 km (4 sq. mile) area in Sirte city. He says the military situation is relatively calm, and Libyan warplanes and artillery kept up their attack on Daesh locations. [Wasat]

 

The Libyan National Accord Military said on its Facebook page that its troops stopped a new Daesh attack from the Mediterranean side. It also says the troops are advancing in the 700 Area, and the artillery killed 7 Daesh terrorists. [AfriGate]

Daesh says it shelled a Fajr Libya gathering in the 700 Area in south Sirte, killing or wounding several fighters and destroying several vehicles. [JustPaste]

 

The Misrata Central Hospital says three Libyan soldiers were killed and eighteen wounded in battles in Sirte. [Wasat]

 

Algeria

Algeria media sources say 332 Daesh terrorists were captured in 11 states close to the Libya and Tunisia borders. [Libya24]

 

Other countries

Lebanon

The Lebanese Army issued a statement saying five people were killed and fifteen wounded, including military personnel, in suicide attacks in the Al-Qaa area. The Army says it found 4 explosive vests west of the area. It also says the Army’s artillery shelled terrorist locations on the outskirts of the Christian Al-Qaa village. [Rudaw]

Eight suicide bombers attacked the village on Monday, killing five people and wounding dozens more, in the latest violent spillover of the five-year-old Syrian war into Lebanon. Security sources said they believed Daesh was responsible for the bombings in Qaa, located on Lebanon’s border with Syria, but there was no immediate claim of responsibility. [Reuters]

Thirteen people were wounded in new attacks in Al-Qaa, hours after the first attacks. [SANA]

 

Yemen

Daesh says 2 of its Yemeni suicide terrorists attacked a Yemeni counter terrorism center in Hadhramaut, with 2 vehicle bombs, then another 4 terrorists attacked the center, killing the remaining people inside. Daesh also says a suicide terrorist detonated his explosives vest on a Yemeni Army elite unit south of Mukalla while another Yemeni terrorist detonated his explosives vest on another gathering north of the city. Daesh says more than fifty people were killed, and over one hundred wounded in the 8 suicide attacks. [JustPaste]

Here Daesh says fifty-four people were killed in the attack. [A3maq]

Daesh publishes photos of the suicide terrorists. [JustPaste]

The manager of health in Hadhramaut says forty-one people were killed and thirty wounded, including civilians, in the terrorist attacks in Mukalla. [MukallaToday]

 

Nigeria

The Nigerian Army said on Sunday it liberated 15 villages in northeast Nigeria and freed 5,000 people and killed 6 Boko Haram terrorists. [AfriGate]

 

Somalia

Daesh says it killed a Somali policeman and wounded three others in an attack with 2 grenades at a checkpoint in Mogadishu city. [A3maq]

 

SOCIAL MEDIA SOURCES

 

A photo of a huge IED found in Falluja [Twitter]

And another IED storehouse [Twitter]

 

A tribal leader in Anbar says one of the displaced people who appeared in a video recently claiming he was tortured by Iraqi forces is a Saddam army officer and a Daesh commander who participated in massacring soldiers in Saqlawiya in 2014 [Twitter]

 

Videos of the Day

A video of an Iraqi Army Abrams tank destroying a Daesh vehicle bomb in the Makhoul Mountains area [Twitter]

 

A video of the IEDs and booby-trapped houses in Falluja [Yalla]

A video of a Daesh IED factory in Falluja [Twitter]

 

A video of convoys of civilians leaving Shirqat [Twitter]

A video of Iraqi forces securing displaced people from Shirqat [Twitter]

A video of displaced families from Shirqat [Hurra]

A video of Iraqi forces ambushing a Daesh group in Makhoul Mountains [Twitter]

 

A video of MMC fighters in Manbij. One of the fighters shows a fake anti-aircraft weapon Daesh put on civilian houses so they would be targeted by the Coalition. [Al-Aan]

 

OTHER DAESH MEDIA

 

Daesh audio newsletter for today [JustPaste]

 

Daesh issues a propaganda video titled “Two Years Since the Caliphate”. [JustPaste]

 

Daesh issues a propaganda video praising the terrorist attacks in France and the US. [DawaAlhaq]

 

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