An Update On ISIS Activities

November 2, 2015

November 2, 2015

Albu Hayat

REPORTS FROM IRAQ

 

Among today’s major developments:

 Major Iraq military drive begins in and around Ramadi with heavy Coalition bombing support.

Parliament sends mixed message on Al-Abadi’s reforms.

Erdogan’s party regains parliamentary majority in Turkey.

 

ANBAR

Ramadi

Iraqi forces restarted Ramadi liberation operations from multiple directions on Sunday. [Baghdadia]

The Anbar Operations Commander says Iraqi forces supported by Coalition airplanes are advancing in many areas around Ramadi, killing many Daesh members and destroying their vehicles. Iraqi forces advanced in Albu Farraj north of Ramadi and in areas east of Ramadi and maintained the momentum in the south and the west. He says the coming hours will show “big” military results. [Mada]

 

The Spokesman of Anbar GC says dozens of Daesh members were killed and many others wounded when Coalition planes targeted 8 Daesh locations in Ramadi city. [Baghdadia]

Daesh publishes photos of the results of the bombing on Ramadi. [JustPaste]

 

The Anbar Operations Commander says Iraqi forces liberated 1,200 meters (3/4 mile) of the road to the former Anbar Operations Command headquarters north of Ramadi. He says the Coalition killed 15 Daesh terrorists in Albu Dhiab and Albu Farraj north of Ramadi. [Sumaria]

 

The Commander also says Iraqi troops crossed the Albu Farraj Bridge and are advancing toward the city. He says Iraqi forces defused 150 IEDs but there are still many more, which slows the advances. [Sumaria]

Coalition airplanes killed 11 terrorists, including 2 snipers, and destroyed 2 rocket launchers and five Daesh locations and a hideout near the Albu Farraj Bridge. [IWMC Report]

Daesh publishes photos of shelling Iraqi forces in Albu Farraj. [JustPaste]

 

A security source says the Coalition destroyed a Daesh explosives storehouse in Jazeera Khaldiya east of Ramadi, killing 4 Daesh members inside. [Baghdadia]

 

The Chairman of the security committee in Khaldiya says Iraqi forces, supported by Coalition aircraft, are now positioned in important areas in Hsaiba and Madhiq east of Ramadi after heavy fighting that killed many Daesh members. He says Iraqi forces are advancing in those areas by the hour and deploying troops to hold the ground in the cleared areas. [Mada]

 

Iraq War Media Cell (IWMC) says an Iraqi Rapid Intervention unit shelled a Daesh hideout in Hsaiba east of Ramadi with an SPG9 rocket, killing 5 terrorists. [Mada]

 

Iraqi forces continued their operations west of Ramadi, destroying a vehicle bomb and defusing IEDs in residential buildings. Coalition planes bombed a Daesh gathering in the area, killing 5 terrorists, including a sniper, in addition to destroying 10 hideouts and a vehicle and rocket launchers. Two Daesh suicide bombers tried to sneak into the Iraqi forces’ area; one was killed and Iraqi units are still looking for the other. [IWMC Report]

 

Daesh says one of its Tunisian suicide terrorists attacked Iraqi forces in the 7 Kilo area west of Ramadi, killing or wounding “dozens” of Iraqi soldiers. [Dump]

 

Falluja

The IWMC says 3 Daesh oil tankers were destroyed and several Daesh members were killed or wounded in an Iraqi airstrike on Albu Shijil north of Falluja. [Mada]

 

Baghdad Operations Command troops killed 11 Daesh fighters and wounded 4, destroyed 2 vehicles and 2 hideouts, and defused 11 IEDs in Qarma. [BOC Facebook Page]

 

An Iraqi 3rd Rapid Intervention Brigade unit destroyed a Daesh truck in Subaihat in Qarma. [BOC Facebook Page]

 

An Iraqi Army 55th Brigade unit defused 3 IEDs in Dwailiba near Ameriyat Al-Falluja. [BOC Facebook Page]

 

Hit/Haditha

An Iraqi Army 7th Division source says Iraqi Army troops supported by tribal fighters and the IAA liberated the western Albu Hayat area east of Baghdadi. [Sumaria]

Daesh’s alternate version says it stopped a large Iraqi attack on Albu Hayat from 4 sides and destroyed many vehicles. Daesh also says it shelled Khasfa west of Haditha with mortars and with 12 Katyusha rockets, forcing Iraqi troops to retreat. [Dump]

 

A security source says the IAA targeted a Daesh gathering in Baghdadi, killing 4 terrorists and wounding others. The source also says the Iraqi Army 8th Division artillery shelled Daesh in Falahat and Madhiq east of Ramadi, killing many Daesh fighters and destroying 5 vehicles carrying machine guns. [Mada]

 

A security source says Iraqi forces stopped a Daesh attack at a checkpoint east of Baghdadi, killing 6 Daesh terrorists and destroying 2 vehicles. [Baghdadia]

 

The Jazeera Operations Commander says his troops defused 33 IEDs near Baghdadi. [Baghdadia]

 

A security source says the Coalition destroyed a Daesh IED factory in Kubaisa. [Baghdadia]

 

SALAHUDDIN

Baiji

A security source says an Iraqi police major was killed in an IED explosion in Fatha north of Baiji. [Baghdadia]

 

The IFP Commander says his troops rocketed Daesh in the Makhoul Mountains, killing 23 Daesh fighters and destroying 3 vehicles. [Baghdadia]

A video of PMFs fighting Daesh in Makhoul Mountains [YouTube]

 

A video of IFP and PMF fighters destroying a vehicle bomb [PMF Media]

 

Shirqat

A local source says Daesh surrounded 3 neighborhoods in Shirqat and arrested several people after Iraq flags were raised on houses. [Sumaria]

 

An Iraqi Army captain says Iraqi forces finished their preparations for a large military campaign to liberate Shirqat in the coming days. [BasNews]

 

Samarra

Samarra Operations Command troops killed 7 Daesh fighters and wounded another and destroyed 6 vehicles and a fuel tanker bomb in the Samarra Dam area. [IWMC Report]

 

A security source said on Sunday Iraqi forces stopped a massive Daesh attack on the Strategic Line areas west of Samarra. [Ghad]

 

Elsewhere in Salahuddin

A security source says unknown armed men kidnapped a civilian in downtown Tuz. [Sumaria]

 

The MoD says the IAF launched 5 airstrikes on Daesh in Salahuddin, including Samarra (video). [MoD Website]

 

BAGHDAD

UNAMI says 714 Iraqis were killed and 1269 wounded by the terrorism and violence in October. [Baghdadia]

 

The CoR issues an unclear statement supporting PM Abadi’s reform but asking that he respect the separation between the legislative and the executive powers. [Rudaw] CoR members quoted say the meaning is that the CoR does not want Abadi to issue any more reforms without first getting its approval. [PUKMedia]

DaeshDaily comment. Abadi did in fact impose reforms on the COR and President’s office as well as the ministries and other offices under his own authority, raising a jurisdictional question. The other branches went along at first but resistance has grown. An alternative interpretation is that many CoR members just don’t like the reforms, which have cost them money and attacked some of their corrupt ways.

 

The Badr Commander, Hadi Al-Ameri, also an MP and former Minister of Transportation, says after meeting with the British Ambassador to Iraq that the international Coalition should support Iraq “more seriously” and launch more airstrikes on Daesh, and stop calling the PMFs “militias”. He also asked the Coalition to help stop the flow of Daesh terrorists from Turkey and train Iraqi security forces.

DaeshDaily comment. This is a sudden and possibly important development. Al-Ameri has until now been on an anti-American kick and was totally against the Coalition airstrikes, which undermined Abadi’s leadership. One wonders what, or who, changed his mind.

 

The Chairman of CoR’s Security and Defense Committee, a Sadr MP, says Iraqi security stopped 2 airplanes at Baghdad International Airport, Swedish and Canadian, carrying light weapons and silencers intended for Kurdistan. There has been no clear explanation. The rapporteur of the Committee, a Kurdish MP, says the weapons were intended for the two countries’ missions in Erbil, to assist Peshmerga training. The planes had to fly back to their countries with the cargo still on board. [Rudaw]

 

According to security sources:

  • Two civilians were killed and 9 wounded when an IED exploded near a popular restaurant in Husseiniya in north Baghdad. [Mada]
  • An IED exploded near a commercial area in Ubaidi in east Baghdad, killing a civilian and wounding 4. [Mada]
  • Two civilians were killed and 4 wounded when an IED exploded near a popular market in Sayyed Abdulla village in Mahmudiya in south Baghdad. [Mada]
  • Unknown armed men stopped a civilian car and stole USD 130,000 from it in Nahdha in downtown Baghdad. [Baghdadia]
  • An IED exploded in Ghazaliya in west Baghdad, killing a civilian and wounding 7. [Mada]
  • Bodies of three unknown persons were found shot in three different areas in Baghdad. [Mada]

 

The IAF conducted 4 sorties and the IAA 43.

The Coalition conducted 16 sorties, on Ramadi and Habbaniya; Baiji and Shirqat; Mosul, Tal Afar, and Sinjar, killing an unknown number of terrorists and destroying 24 Daesh locations, 8 hideouts, 5 vehicle bombs and weapons and ammunitions. [IWMC Report]

 

DIYALA

Muqdadiya/Abu Saida

A security source says unknown armed men attacked an Iraqi Army vehicle, killing 4 soldiers near the Al-Qubba village 6 km (4 miles) south of Abu Saida. [Sumaria]

 

Daesh says it shelled PMFs in Abu Saida with mortars. [JustPaste]

DaeshDaily comment. In all such reports Daesh says it attacked PMFs, even if the victims were civilians.

 

A security source says unknown armed men shot and killed a PMF fighter near his house in Abu Saida. [Sumaria]

 

Elsewhere in Diyala

Daesh says it ambushed and killed 2 Sahwa fighters in Diyala (photos). [JustPaste]

 

Daesh publishes photos of 2 houses destroyed by PMFs in Diyala. [Dump] [Dump]

 

KIRKUK

The Kirkuk Police say they arrested 12 Daesh suspects in Kirkuk city who came from areas recently liberated from Daesh. [Ghad]

 

A Kirkuk Police source says a security force detained more than 30 people who escaped Daesh controlled in south Shirqat, in Taza, 25 km (15.5 miles) south of Kirkuk. The source says some of the detainees are police or army personnel and they are being investigated to determine if they are wanted. [Mada]

 

NINEWA

Mosul

A local source in Ninewa says Daesh is selling wheat from areas it controls in Ninewa in Baghdad in coordination with corrupt officers. The Iraqi government buys wheat and other grains from Iraqi farmer for subsidized prices. [Ghad] Normally, farmers would sell their product to government silos in Ninewa

 

A local activist says Daesh executed 12 young boys who escaped from one of its training camps. The source says Daesh is training 4,000 boys in its Ashbal Al-Khilada camps. [ARA]

 

A report about a 15 years old Yazidi girl kidnapped by Daesh who then managed to escape and tell her story to Rudaw [Rudaw]

 

Daesh has lists of names and addresses of all the journalists in the city which make them easy targets. Twenty-four journalists have been executed by Daesh in Mosul so far. [Rudaw]

 

A Ninewa Police source says Daesh executed a judge in Mosul, months after he was arrested. [BasNews]

An Iraqi Army general says Daesh executed 3 Iraqi Army officers with the judge. [Karemlash]

 

A PUK official says Daesh executed another policeman in Mosul. [PUKMedia]

 

A Ninewa Police source says the MoI appointed a new Police Chief for Ninewa. The new Chief is the first one from outside Ninewa since 2003. [BasNews]

DaeshDaily comment. The new Chief will remain outside Ninewa for a while longer, as the Ninewa police headquarters is at the Speicher base in Salahuddin pending Ninewa’s liberation.

 

A local source says Daesh threatened school teachers they will be beheaded if they don’t go to work. [BasNews]

 

A PUK official says the Coalition killed 20 Daesh members and destroyed 2 vehicles and several locations in airstrikes on Bashiqa and Tal Afar. [PUKMedia]

 

Daesh publishes photos of opening a new “media center” in Mosul. [JustPaste]

 

Northwest Ninewa

IWMC says the Coalition launched several airstrikes on Daesh in Ninewa. Coalition planes bombed a Daesh gathering in Ashiq in Tal Afar, killing many terrorists, and destroying 2 vehicles, one of them carrying mortars and the other carrying fighters in Qubuk village in Tal Afar. The Coalition also destroyed a Daesh location and killed a Daesh local commander and many suicide bombers in Sinjar. [Mada]

 

A Peshmerga source says Kurdish forces killed 4 Daesh suicide bombers attacking checkpoints in Hardan in Sinjar. [BasNews]

Daesh says only 5 of its terrorists attacked the Peshmerga in Hardan killing “dozens’ of them and destroying 5 excavators and 6 armored vehicles. After that 2 of the attackers detonated themselves while the remaining 3 went back safely. [Dump]

DaeshDaily comment. Obviously Daesh cannot get away from its Baathist practices. One consistent theme of Daesh media reports is “We are always victorious.” If they are not in fact victorious in some battle, the story is twisted and maybe changed to maintain the theme, as in this case. Looking at this more broadly, however, government media and PMF media are often guilty of the same thing. All of this propaganda-as-news makes it harder to write Daesh Daily.

 

A Peshmerga fighter says he shot a Daesh suicide bomber in Rabi’a but the terrorist detonated himself wounding 2 Kurdish fighters. [Rudaw]

Daesh says its terrorists detonated a vehicle bomb in Rabi’a killing 2 Peshmerga and wounding 8. [Dump]

DaeshDaily comment. Notice again the alternate Daesh version of an incident that twists the story to fit the “We are always victorious” theme.

 

Daesh publishes a video of attacking the Kurdish forces on Bashiqa Mountain. [A3maq]

 

The Peshmerga Chief of Staff says the Kurdish forces are prepared to capture Sinjar and waiting for President Barzani’s orders. He also says Daesh has brought reinforcements to Sinjar, anticipating the attack. [BasNews]

 

Makhmur

A report about 70 Daesh members who escaped Daesh controlled areas and surrendered to the Peshmerga in Gwer [Rudaw]

 

Other Governorates  

SOUTHERN IRAQ

A security source in Kerbala says the Intelligence Service arrested members of a Daesh network trying to transfer 1 billion Iraqi dinars (around USD 850,000) to Daesh. [PUKMedia]

 

REPORTS FROM SYRIA

Northern Syria

A field source says the Democratic Syria Forces (a coalition of Kurdish forces and other Syrian armed groups) liberated 12 villages in western Hasaka countryside. The source also says Daesh launched massive counterattacks with vehicle bombs and suicide bombers near Al-Hawl town. The source says dozens of fighters on both sides were killed or wounded in the continuous battles. [BasNews]

 

The YPG says the Turkish Army has continued to mortar them in the border areas near Kobane. [PUKMedia]

The YPG says Daesh is still trying to capture Sarrin town in Kobane district. [ARA]

 

The YPG says its troops destroyed a Daesh vehicle bomb before it reached a YPG checkpoint in Sallaliye in Hasaka. [Rudaw]

 

The family of the man who set himself on fire, objecting to the YPG’s forced recruitment of his daughter, says he died in a hospital in Turkey. [ARA]

 

The Democratic Syria Forces (DSF) destroyed a Daesh car bomb and killed the terrorist inside, 13 km (8 miles) southwest of Tal Brak. [Hawar]

 

The spokesman of the DSF says the battles to liberate east Hasaka countryside continue and they are approaching Al-Hawl. [Welati]

 

Daesh says it destroyed the car of a PYD official in Hasaka with a sticker IED, wounding him and his associate. [Dump]

 

Daesh publishes a video of beheading the 2 activists from Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently (RSS) in Urfa, Turkey. [Come To Success]

Daesh publishes photos of shelling the YPG in Um Barameel village near Raqqa. [JustPaste]

 

Northwestern Syria

A local source says Daesh attacked the Tal Arn town in Al-Bab killing 7 Kurdish young men who tried to defend their town while the Syrian Army was idle. The source says Daesh controlled many areas around the town and is advancing towards it, threatening the lives of thousands of civilian Kurds. [BasNews]

 

Daesh says it stopped a Syrian armed groups attack on Harbal in Aleppo’s northern countryside. Daesh says the attack was accompanied by 20 Coalition airstrikes and publishes photos of the result of the bombing. [JustPaste]  (In this case, “Coalition” probably refers to Turkey.)

 

Central and Western Syria
Syrian opposition sources say Daesh captured Mahin town in Homs after killing 50 Syrian soldiers and militiamen, bring Daesh close to the International Road that links southern and northern Syria, and to the Christian town of Sadad. [ARA]

Daesh says it captured Mahin and publishes photos of the town. [Dump] [JustPaste]

Daesh says Syrian forces tried to recapture the hills near Sadad with aid from Russian airplanes. [A3maq] [Dump]

Daesh publishes photos of the vehicles, tanks and weapons they seized after the battles in Mahin. [JustPaste]

 

Daesh publishes a video of the results of the Russian bombing on Homs and says it killed 16 civilians near a bakery. [A3maq]

 

Daesh publishes photos of a Russian airstrike on Al-Qaryatayn and says it caused material damage but no human casualties. [JustPaste]

Daesh publishes photos of its members defusing landmines near Al-Qaryatayn. [JustPaste]

 

REPORTS FROM TURKEY

Several Syrian jihadi groups (including Jabha Shamiya, Jaish Al-Sham and Ahrar Al-Sham) congratulate Erdogan’s Justice and Development (AKP) party for winning the election in Turkey. [PUKMedia]

DaeshDaily comment. This was a major and somewhat surprising victory with uncertain consequences. It appears that the PKK decision to resume hostilities has backfired politically.

 

REPORTS FROM OTHER MIDDLE EAST/NORTH AFRICAN COUNTRIES

Al Qaeda’s Zawahiri issues an audio statement asking jihadi groups in Syria to unite against the Americans, the Russians, Assad, Iran, and Hezbollah. [MTV]

 

Daesh publishes a video of its suicide terrorists. [Archive]

Daesh audio newsletter for today in French [Archive]

 

Kuwait. The Kuwait Criminal Court sentenced 5 people to 10 years in prison for collecting hundreds of thousands of dollars of donations for Daesh from Kuwaiti tribes. The terrorists told the tribes they were collecting money to aid Syrian people. [Sharq]

 

Egypt.  Daesh claimed responsibility for shooting down the Russian civilian airplane over Sinai. [Dump]

DaeshDaily comment. Russian and Egyptian sources denied the reports about a terrorism explanation for the airline crash but now they say they are waiting for the results of the investigation. Daesh supporters on Twitter said Daesh will publish a new report about the airplane, supposedly with evidence of its role.

 

Libya. Daesh publishes photos of whiplashing 2 men publically in Sirte. [JustPaste]

DaeshDaily comment. The reality of Daesh in Sirte is becoming stronger every day, with no apparent opposition from anyone.  

 

Tunisia. Tunisian authorities arrest 3 terrorism suspects in Djerba. [Tunisien]

The Tunisian MoI says Daesh established training camps in Libya near the Tunisian borders and says the situation is “dangerous and requires more attention”. [AkhbarLibya24]

 

Other countries

Daesh publishes a video of cutting off the hands of 2 men accused of theft in West Africa. [Archive]

 

SOCIAL MEDIA SOURCES

Facebook Page of the Day

A Daesh page

 

Daesh Twitter Accounts of the Day

https://twitter.com/sdf265

https://twitter.com/BuSak15

https://twitter.com/AhmedMMashal

https://twitter.com/Ddffss1222

https://twitter.com/Asirat_hramin15

 

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