November 7, 2016
Today’s Major Developments
Iraq
Iraqi airstrikes hit Anah, Rawa, Al-Qa’im. [..]
Daesh stages mass-murder IED attacks on Tikrit, Samarra. [..]
Kirkuk Police arrest five sleeper cell suspects in deadly Kirkuk attack. [..]
2,000 Daesh fighters reported killed in Ninewa liberation campaign. [..]
Mosul citizens who left now total over 30,000. [..]
Daesh fights back hard in East Mosul. [..]
IFP moves on from Hammam Al-Alil victory; approaches Mosul city limits, airport. [..]
Iraqi troops free 1,000 Daesh prisoners, 400 hostages south of Mosul. [..]
Peshmerga, Iraqi Army take more villages, consolidate control of Nineveh Plain. [..]
Syria
SOHR estimates 5,470 Daesh personnel have died in Coalition airstrikes. [..]
US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces start drive on Raqqa; make early progress. [..]
Egypt
Egyptian security personnel kill estimated 70 Daesh-linked terrorists. [..]
REPORTS FROM IRAQ
NATIONAL NEWS
The Coalition says it conducted 12 airstrikes on Daesh targets in Iraq, seven of them in the Mosul area. The others were in Sinjar (1), Tal Afar (1), and Rawa (3). [InherentResolve]. The Iraqi Ministry of Defense also reported IAF airstrikes in northwest Anbar. (See below). These are likely indicators of coming events.
BAGHDAD
Security-related incidents reported
Center (Rusafa, Karkh, etc.)
An MoI source says six people were wounded when and IED exploded in the Alawi area. [Mada]
A security source says one civilian was wounded when an IED exploded near the Muthana Airport. [Sumaria]
North (Tarmiya, Taji, etc.)
An MOI source says two civilians were killed and six wounded by an IED placed in a busy market in Taji. [Mada]
The IWMC says a Counter Terrorism Service drone killed the Daesh military commander of Baghdad and Diyala, in Tarmiya. [Mada]
Daesh says its snipers shot and wounded an Iraqi Army officer at the Al-Tabi checkpoint in Tarmiya. [Isdarat]
Daesh says it shot and wounded a policeman in Tarmiya Center. [Isdarat]
Iraqi army 22nd brigade found 5 Daesh guesthouses and a weapons and explosives cache in the Zor area. [BOC Facebook Page]
Northeast (Adhamiya, etc.)
Daesh said it killed an Iraqi Army officer and another soldier and destroyed a Humvee with an IED in the Rashidiya area on Saturday. [A3maq]
East (Sadr City, New Baghdad, etc.)
An MOI source says one civilian was killed and seven wounded by an IED placed in a commercial area in Fudhailiya. [Mada]
An MoI source says one person was killed and seven wounded when an IED exploded near a commercial area in Niariya. [Mada]
South (Dora, Yusufiyah, Mahmudiya, etc.)
An MOI source says three civilians were killed and seven wounded when two mortar shells hit the Arab Jubour area. [Mada]
Iraqi Army 23rd brigade defused two IEDs in Shakha 6 area. [BOC Facebook Page]
Iraqi Army 55th brigade detected 2 mortar shells and detonators in Karaghoul. [BOC Facebook Page]
West (Ghazaliya, Abu Ghraib, etc.)
Iraqi army 24th brigade defused 3 IEDs and found large explosives caches in raids on Zuwainat and Hammed Shaaban areas. [BOC Facebook Page]
Daesh says it destroyed a PMF Humvee with an IED in the Hamdaniya area in Abu Ghraib. [A3maq]
Daesh said on Saturday that it killed an Iraqi Army officer and three soldiers with an IED in Abu Ghraib [A3maq]
Total Baghdad incidents reported: 16 (Includes only incidents reported)
Total IED incidents 10
ANBAR
Falluja
Daesh says it detonated 5 IEDs in the Zoba’a villages southeast of the city Sunday, killing or wounding several Iraqi service members, including three EOD experts, and destroying 4 vehicles. [A3maq]
DaeshDaily comment. Since Falluja was retaken by the government, there have been almost no violent incidents reported from Falluja. This incident thus stands as an exception, so far. In the bad old days, however, the Zoba’a villages were one of the most common target areas in Falluja District.
Ramadi
Here Daesh says it detonated an IED on a vehicle carrying four Americans working in a security company in the Tameem area, killing them at once. [Isdarat] [A3maq]
DaeshDaily comment. If true, it seems we would have heard some confirmation, but no confirmation has been seen so far.
Iraqi Army 1st division defused 21 IEDs in two areas in Ramadi. It also found 20 cans of explosives in a hospital in the Albu Dhiab area. [MoD Website]
Rutba/Western Anbar
The MoD says that IAF Sukhoi air strikes on Daesh complexes in Anah and Rawa cities left 30 terrorists, mostly from Caucasus and Uzbekistan, killed. The IAA also destroyed explosives workshops in Anah and Al-Qa’im. [Maalomah] A separate IWMC report said IAF Sukhois lunched 5 airstrikes on Daesh locations in Rawa, killing tens of terrorists and destroying 11 vehicles. [Sumaria]
IWMC also says Iraqi Army Aviation (IAA) targeted a Daesh gathering in Anah, killing 15 terrorists, including two medical officials, and destroying several vehicles. [Maalomah]
A Tribal PMF commander says Daesh has forced tens of children aged 12-14 from Anah and surrounding areas to join its Ashbal Al-Khilafa. [Maalomah]
An Anbar Operations Command source says Daesh established concrete barriers and checkpoints near the Syrian border in Al-Qa’im in order to prevent its fighters from fleeing to Syria. [Mada]
Daesh said on Sunday that it killed or wounded five Iraqi soldiers, destroyed two vehicles, and captured weapons in an attack near the Kilo 70 area west of Rutba. [A3maq]
Daesh issues a video of the attack. [A3maq]
SALAHUDDIN
Shirqat
A Daesh sniper detonated himself in a mosque minaret after running out of ammunition and being besieged by a security force in Shirqat. No casualties except him were reported. [Etejah]
Daesh issues a video of its terrorists in Shirqat last week. [A3maq]
Salahuddin Operations Command EOD cleared a small bridge booby-trapped by Daesh near Khanuqa. It also found a Daesh tunnel and defused 30 IEDs, and an explosives cache in different areas in Shirqat. [MoD Website]
Baiji
Daesh publishes 2 photos of targeting Iraqi Army positions in the Makhazen area north of Baiji with SPG9 rockets. [Isdarat]
Tikrit
A security source said on Sunday that 14 people were killed, including a general and his son, and 25 wounded by the car bomb explosion near a checkpoint south of Tikrit. [Sumaria]
Photos of the explosion [Sumaria]
Daesh says it conducted a suicide attack on a checkpoint south of Tikrit with a vehicle bomb on Sunday. [A3maq] Daesh says it killed 25 Iraqi service members and destroyed 6 vehicles in the attack. [A3maq]
Daesh said on Sunday that it killed three Iraqi soldiers and wounded others with an IED in the Jalam area in Al-Daur. [A3maq]
The commander of the Ajeel Oilfield protection battalion says his troops stopped a Daesh attack on the field, killing 10 terrorists. He also says two of his soldiers were wounded in the attack. [Sumaria]
Daesh says the terrorists attacked an Iraqi Army barracks in the Ajeel Oilfield, burned the towers around it, and detonated 2 IEDs on Iraqi forces, killing or wounding several service members. [Isdarat]
Daesh says its terrorists broke into an Iraqi forces’ military position in Ajeel Oilfield. [A3maq]
Daesh says its snipers also killed three PMF fighters in the Allas Oilfield. [Isdarat]
Samarra
Two bomb-rigged ambulances exploded in Samarra Sunday, the first in the public transport station near the two holy shrines of Samarra and the second at the South Tikrit checkpoint. The total casualties were at 21, including 10 Iranian pilgrims. Further information reveled that an army brigadier and his son were among the casualties. [Buratha] [ROJ]
Daesh said on Sunday that it targeted Iraqi and Iranian Shia pilgrims near the shrines in Samarra with a car bomb, then a suicide terrorist targeted the survivors with an explosive vest. [A3maq]
Here Daesh says forty-seven pilgrims, including fifteen Iranians, were killed and tens wounded in the 2 attacks. [A3maq]
An Iranian Red Crescent source says 88 Iranian pilgrims were transported to Iranian hospitals for treatment following the two suicide attacks on Sunday, in addition to several treated in Iraqi hospitals. [Buratha]
Photos of the explosion in Samarra [Sumaria]
Samarra Operations command says its forces detonated another car bomb in Al-Dawajen on the Baghdad-Samarra main road. [Buratha]
Southern Salahuddin
A joint security force destroyed 4 Daesh guesthouses in the Bishkan area in Dhuluiya. An IFP unit captured a man wanted on terrorism charges in Dhuluiya. [MoD Website]
DIYALA
Baquba/southeast Diyala
A local source in Diyala says unidentified gunmen attacked and killed two civilians in their car at the Al-Rai intersection north of Baquba. [Sumaria]
Daesh says it attacked Iraqi Army positions in Khan Bani Saad and Bizayez Buhriz on Saturday without giving more details. [A3maq]
The Chairman of the Security Committee of the Diyala PC says a joint security force captured two men wanted on terrorism charges. [Sumaria]
Muqdadiya/Abu Saida
A Muqdadiya local council member warned of a possible return of Daesh to Khalaniya village and its surrounding area, taking advantage of security forces involvement in Ninawa. Adnan Al-Tamimi stated that Daesh is increasing it attacks on checkpoints and on areas surrounding that village. [Ghad]
The manager of Abu Saida subdistrict says a joint security force found a large Daesh guesthouse in Mukhaisa village orchards. He says the guesthouse has several underground rooms and was surrounded by IEDs. [Sumaria]
Northern Diyala (Kifri, Khanaqin, etc.)
Daesh said on Saturday that it killed or wounded five Iraqi soldiers in an attack on an battalion headquarters in the Nida area in Saadiya on Friday. It also says it killed two PMF fighters and wounded another by detonating a booby-trapped house in the Albu Taraz area in Udhaim. It also says it killed a PMF fighter and wounded four others by detonating an IED on their vehicle in the same area. [A3maq]
Daesh says it damaged an Iraqi forces’ Humvee with an IED in the Qara Tapa area in Saadiya on Saturday. it also says it damaged another Iraqi forces Humvee and an IFP vehicle with 2 IEDs and in the Hamid area in Balad Ruz. [A3maq]
KIRKUK
Kirkuk
The Directorate of district and subdistrict police in Kirkuk says a Daesh sleeper cell of five persons was arrested in the city. The five facilitated the entry of Daesh terrorists to Kirkuk last month and participated in the battles that took place. They operate under Daesh command from Hawija. [BasNews]
A security source says 2 armed men in a vehicle shot and killed a civilian near a mosque in east Kirkuk. [Mada]
Daesh published photos of executing two “spies” in the Kirkuk area. [DawaAlhaq]
Hawija
Daesh publishes photos of the Al-Zab area. [DawaAlhaq]
Southwest
Daesh says it damaged a PMF SUV in Atshana village in Daquq subdistrict with an IED. [Isdarat]
NINEWA
Mosul
Mosul liberation campaign
General update
The Mosul Operation is unfolding ahead of schedule according to remarks by Brett McGurk, the White House’s envoy to the Coalition. [IPA]
More than 2,000 Daesh members have been killed in the Mosul operations, the Ninewa Operations Commander said. [PressIraq]
The IAF killed 83 Daesh members in various areas of the city, an MoD statement said. [Etejah]
Coalition Spokesman John Dorrian says 3,000 to 4,000 Daesh fighters remain in Mosul. [SotAlIraq]
Iraqi troops reportedly found lists of Daesh members in Mosul in documents recovered from the pockets of dead Daesh fighters in an unspecified village near Mosul (photos). [PressIraq]
The UN spokesman says 5,000 people left Mosul on November 5th and 6th, raising the number of total displaced people to 34,000 since the Ninewa liberation operation started. [Anadolu]
The Iraqi Red Crescent estimate, apparently earlier, says that more than 26,000 people had been displaced. [SotAlIraq] 9,700 of those displaced are children, according to UNICEF. [ARA]
East Mosul
There are 14 million IEDs planted inside the city of Mosul to impede Iraqi troops progress, a member of the Ninewa GC security committee said Monday. One home had been rigged with no fewer than 35 devices, the GC member said. [Etejah]
DaeshDaily comment. We are not putting our credibility behind the gentleman’s estimate.
Daesh says it killed sixteen Iraqi service members and destroyed an Abrams tank and two Humvees in a suicide attack near Hay Al-Samah in east Mosul. [A3maq]
Daesh issues a video with battles near Hay Al-Samah. [A3maq]
Daesh says terrorists burned down two Iraqi forces’ Abrams tanks after infiltrating the Hay Al-Samah area. [A3maq]
Daesh publishes photos of a UAE suicide terrorist who attacked Iraqi forces with a vehicle bomb in Hay Al-Samah. [Isdarat]
Iraqi troops are preparing to clear the areas of Al-Karama, Al-Quds, Al-Samah 1, and Al-Samah 2, a Ninewa GC member said. [Mawazin]
Daesh fighters are making a “noticeable retreat” in eastern Mosul according to one report, citing disorganization among Daesh fighters following the death of two commanders in the eastern sector, Muhammad Al-Uzbeki, and Abu Aisha Al-Bilawi.[ARA]
Another report cites a condition of “confusion” and “disobedience of orders” among Daesh fighters as Iraqi troops advance. Daesh’s “sharia court” issued execution orders for seven fighters who fled their posts, a local source said, while another source reports that another three fighters were executed by the organization after abandoning the front. [Sumaria]
Daesh said on Sunday that it killed eighteen Iraqi SWAT members and destroyed 12 Humvees and damaged 3 in a counter attack on Iraqi forces on the outskirts of Hay Aden in east Mosul. Daesh also says it destroyed an Iraqi forces’ Humvee and a bulldozer near the 90 area. Daesh says Iraqi forces haven’t captured any neighborhoods in Mosul. [A3maq]
Daesh issued a video on Saturday showing battles near Hay Aden in east Mosul. [A3maq]
Daesh issued videos on Sunday of vehicles it captured and destroyed near Hay Aden. [A3maq] [A3maq]
Iraqi troops conducted raids in Intisar, Judaidat Al-Mufti, and Al-Shaymaa areas in eastern Mosul, the deputy JOC commander announced. [Sumaria]
Daesh says it killed eighteen Iraqi service members and destroyed 2 Humvees and a BMP armored vehicle in a suicide attack “on the outskirts” of Hay Al-Intisar. [A3maq]
Daesh says it captured 2 Iraqi forces’ Humvees and a BMP armored vehicle near Hay Al-Intisar in east Mosul. [A3maq]
Daesh buried “more than ten” of its slain fighters in a mass grave inside a football stadium in Mosul after sustaining heavy casualties in street-to-street fighting with Iraqi troops in the Aden neighborhood in east Mosul, a local source said. Daesh has moved many of its wounded to the neighboring Al-Bakr neighborhood for treatment in a makeshift hospital inside a residential building, the source added. [Sumaria]
Elsewhere in Mosul
An Iraqi F-16 airstrike, based on intelligence provided by the Counter Terrorism Service, destroyed a large weapons cache in western Mosul. [Harbi]
Coalition planes targeted “vital” Daesh targets in multiple areas of Mosul, according to ARA’s correspondent. [ARA]
15,000 Ninewa residents are fighting as PMF members according to the head of the PMF authority, Falih Al-Fayad. [Harbi]
Ahmad Arslan, commander of a Turkmen Shia PMF announced to the Russian media that PMFs do not need US air support in their campaign in Mosul. [Waradana]
An advisor to the Badr PMF organization said that PMFs would only fight on the fronts that had been designated for them and were not planning to enter Mosul city. However, he said that in the event of the collapse of the Iraqi Army in Mosul, PMFs would intervene to “defend the city.” [SotAlIraq]
Military Developments within Mosul
Daesh has filled the basins of public water fountains in eastern Mosul with crude oil and set them alight in an effort to create smoke to obscure the ground from attacking aircraft, local sources said. [Arabi21]
Iraqi troops discovered a Daesh tunnel network underneath the eastern Mosul neighborhood of Intisar, and found nine boxes of PKC ammunition inside one of the tunnels. [Maalomah]
The “emir” of the Daesh treasury [Diwan Al-Mal], Faris Abu Bakr, known as “Abu Muhammad,” has been killed by Iraqi Counter Terrorism Service troops in eastern Mosul, according to the IWMC. [PUKMedia]
An American volunteer medic treated casualties of Mosul combat. When Iraqi forces pushed into Mosul’s urban center last week, Derek Coleman, an American volunteer medic, was among those treating the wounded at a front-line field clinic. He said he helped treat 44 casualties before he lost count. [AP]
Daesh says it destroyed an Iraqi forces Humvee “on the outskirts” of Hay Saddam in Mosul. [A3maq]
DaeshDaily comment. Daesh changed the name of the area to Hay Al-Zarqawi. Not much of a name improvement.
Daesh says Coalition planes mistakenly targeted Iraqi forces convoys with 6 rockets in the same area, killing or wounding “tens” of service members. [A3maq]
Conditions in Mosul
Daesh’s printed propaganda operations, including its print magazine and other publications, have completely ceased in Mosul, a local source said. The source also cited “semi-confirmed information” that Daesh had moved its printing presses outside the city. [Sumaria]
Women from Ninewa who have escaped Daesh rule or whose areas are liberated are shedding the black garb that Daesh imposed on them, but fears remain, “I still don’t believe I live in freedom away from Daesh control,” one woman said. Many women in the Hasan Chamchamal IDP camp east of Mosul have cast their black over-garments onto a fence where they have been hanging since (photos). [Sumaria]
Daesh publishes photos of animal farms in Mosul. [DawaAlhaq]
Daesh issues 3 photos of “normal life” in Mosul. [DawaAlhaq]
DaeshDaily comment. Such propaganda has proliferated lately as life in Mosul has become less and less normal.
Shura/Hammam Alil/Mosul subdistrict
On Saturday President Masoum congratulated Iraqi forces on the liberation of Hammam Al-Alil. [Sumaria]
The IFP seized the village of Qabr Al-Abd north of Hammam Al-Alil, a Ninewa security source said. The village is located 5 km (3 miles) from the limits of Mosul city and is near the Mosul airport, which the source said the IFP would advance on and attempt to capture. [Mada]
Daesh actually conceded on Sunday that Iraqi forces captured part of Hammam Al-Alil, but said it conducted two suicide attacks, killing ten soldiers and destroying 4 vehicles and the battles were ongoing. [A3maq]
The IFP freed 400 families that had been held by Daesh near Hammam Al-Alil, according to General Ra’ed Shakir Jawdat, Commander of the IFP. [Baghdadia]
On Sunday, according to a Ninewa Provincial Council member, Iraqi forces found a large Daesh prison in Shura and freed more than 1,000 prisoners, including former army and police members. [Sumaria]
The IFP reportedly discovered a mass grave at the University of Mosul School of Agriculture west of Hammam Al-Alil city, which it captured on Sunday. The grave holds at least 100 corpses, the IWMC announced. [Sumaria] [AIN]
Video of Hammam Al-Alil residents bathing in the sulphur springs of the area, which they had been forbidden to do under Daesh rule. [Rudaw]
Daesh says it destroyed an Iraqi military Humvee with and IED west of Hammam Al-Alil. [A3maq]
Here Daesh says it destroyed two Iraq Humvees with IEDs west of Hammam Al-Alil, killing the soldiers inside. [A3maq]
PMF commander Abu Mahdi Al-Muhandis said that PMFs have captured 65 villages southwest of Mosul since the launch of their fighting operations there. PMFs have also “completely” cut off the road between Raqqa and Mosul he said. [Buratha]
Daesh published photos of an Irish suicide terrorist conducting an attack on PMF units in Ghuzail Kabir village. [DawaAlhaq]
DaeshDaily comment. There is one photo of the terrorist (Sean Kelly) standing in front of a vehicle bomb, then two remote photos of an explosion.
Daesh said on Sunday it attacked Iraqi forces in the Al-Adhba area northwest of Hammam Al-Alil city, killing sixteen service members and destroying 3 Humvees. [A3maq]
Daesh says it shot down an Iraqi Army recon drone near Adhba village. [Isdarat]
Daesh publishes photos of battles near Adhba village. [Isdarat]
IFP also captured the village of Arij and the Mosul Cement Factory north of Hammam Al-Alil. [Baghdadia]
Daesh says it damaged 2 Iraqi forces’ Humvees near Arij village. [A3maq]
The IFP announced that on the southern front since the launch of the Mosul operations it had captured 93 villages and 1846 square km (712 square miles) of territory, killed 935 Daesh members and arrested 106, destroyed 212 vehicle bombs and captured 26 vehicles, as well as defusing 1,420 IEDs. [PUKMedia]
IFP announced that it found a vehicle bomb hidden in a medical clinic in Hammam Al-Alil. [Waradana]
Daesh says it detonated 4 booby-trapped houses and several IEDs on Iraqi Army PMF members near Um Al-Masayid village southwest of Mosul, killing more than twelve fighters and destroying 4 Humvees. [A3maq]
A “source” tells Daesh’s A3maq that PMF fighters killed “tens” of men from Adaya village and took tens of men and women to an unknown area. Daesh publishes an aerial photo allegedly showing men and women isolated in two groups. [A3maq]
DaeshDaily comment. The Iraqi government should investigate this to show that Daesh is lying. If it were true, Daesh would have real photos of executed people. The message here is for Sunni people not to leave their areas. This message was heavily distributed by Daesh and its online fanboys. Daesh doesn’t want to be separated from civilians, otherwise it would have no human shields.
Daesh issues a video of damaging an Iraqi forces tank near the Adaya Intersection. [A3maq]
Daesh says it destroyed 2 Iraqi forces’ Humvees and damaged another with IEDs in Arbid village, on the main north-south road west-northwest of Hammam Al-Alil. [Isdarat]
Qayara/Makhmur
Daesh says its snipers killed two Peshmerga fighters in Karaw village near Makhmur. [A3maq]
Nineveh Plain
Bashiqa
The Peshmerga have complete control over the Bashiqa subdistrict and are conducting search operations throughout the city, a security source said. [Sumaria]
The Peshmerga launched their assault in the morning, and announced later that they had captured four areas (Intisar, Al-Askari, Bahzani, next to Bashiqa city, and Ras Al-Ayn) in Bashiqa on Monday, Mosul operations commander Lt. Gen. Abd Al-Amir Rashid Yarallah announced. Yarallah said the Kurdish fighters were continuing to advance in the city. Air support for Peshmerga fighters provided by Apache helicopters was instrumental in the battle for Bashiqa a Peshmerga officer said. [Mada] [Mada] [ARA]
Around 8 to 10 Daesh suicide bombers detonated themselves in Mosul after the Peshmerga pressed the siege and cut off any escape routes, the KRG Peshmerga Ministry said. [Sumaria]
The Peshmerga reached the Al-Azzawi crossing west of Bashiqa that links Mosul to the roads to Dahuk and Erbil governorates, a Ninewa security source said. [Mada]
A security source said that the Peshmerga killed three Daesh commanders in Bashiqa, all of Libyan nationality. [Maalomah]
Hamdaniya
Iraqi Army troops captured the village of Manarat Shabak east of Mosul, the JOC deputy commander announced. [Sumaria]
A Japanese citizen who had been captured last month by the Peshmerga on suspicions of belonging to Daesh has been handed over to the Japanese government, the KRG Security Council announced. [Maalomah]
Rudaw interviewed the mother of a Daesh suicide bomber from Fadhiliya who detonated himself in Qayara earlier. The mother said before Daesh took over Mosul their 24-year-old son worked in industry in the city but lost his job after Daesh came to Mosul. The young man drifted into associating with Daesh and eventually the mother said the family had not seen him for a year when Daesh presented them with 400 US dollars as a reward to his family for his suicide attack. [Rudaw]
Tel Keif
Iraqi troops have captured the Sada Bawiza area and have surrounded the former headquarters of the Iraqi Army’s Second Division in eastern Mosul, an Iraqi Army source said. Iraqi troops entered Bawiza for the first time this morning, according to the Northern Front commander. [Buratha] [ARA]
Daesh issues a video of its terrorists in the Sada Bawiza area. [A3maq]
Daesh says it stopped a PMF attack on the Bawiza area and destroyed 4 Humvees and an armored personnel carrier. Daesh says it damaged another APC near the area. [A3maq] [A3maq]
Daesh says it damaged a PMF armored personnel carrier with a missile near the Sada Bawiza area.
Daesh publishes photos of targeting an Iraqi forces’ APC in the Bawiza area. [DawaAlhaq]
Daesh says it killed more than twelve PMF fighters and destroyed 4 Humvees and an armored personnel carrier in a suicide attack near the Waterfalls area near Shalalat, north of Mosul. [A3maq]
Daesh issues a video of battles near the Waterfalls area. [A3maq]
Northwest (Tal Afar, Sinjar)
Daesh checkpoints on the Syrian border preventing are Mosul residents from traveling to Syria even as it permits its fighters and their families to do so. [Dorar]
South (Baaj, Hatra)
Daesh has announced the death of one if its most important propaganda filmmakers in Mosul, a local source said. Shahata Al-Masri was killed with two of his aides in an airstrike in Baaj, the source said. [Sumaria]
REPORTS FROM TURKEY
“Mosul Call,” a mostly Muslim Brothers conference was held in Turkey and attended by several Muslim Brothers leaders, including the Qatar-based Egyptian cleric Qardhawi, and others, in addition to Iraq’s controversial Association of Muslim Scholars. The conference called on Turkey to participate in the Ninewa liberation in order to prevent an “ethnic cleansing”. [Rudaw]
DaeshDaily comment. This suspicious gathering should be seen for the sectarian propaganda event it really was. The purpose is to derail the Ninewa liberation campaign or redirect it into a Sunni takeover at Iraq’s expense. The conveniently Sunni Turks now look like the last chance for maintaining Sunni dominance in this part of Iraq. The Association of Muslim Scholars will be remembered by many Americans as the most-quoted propaganda mouthpiece of the insurgency against the Iraqi government and the US military in the early post-Saddam days. In fact, it was neither “Islamic” nor “scholarly.” All these supposedly religious and concerned people were silent when Daesh was executing thousands of Iraqis (most of them Sunnis) in public entertainment events, enslaving thousands of Iraqi women, throwing people from the roofs of buildings, etc. These are essentially pro-Daesh people who are faced with defeat and trying to scheme a way out. They are also a threat, however, and should be treated accordingly.
Media sources say the TAK, a group close to the PKK, claimed responsibility for the car bomb attack in Deir Bakr two days ago. [Sumaria]
The first hearing took place today in the trial of 36 people over the Ankara Railway Station slaughter in which a hundred people died. The trial itself, for a mass murder carried out by two Daesh suicide bombers who mingled in with the crowd assembling for a peace rally, will be heard at Ankara Serious Crime Court No 4. The trial is planned to last five days.
Certain key figures such as Daesh’s leaders in Syria, İlhami Balı, Deniz Büyükçelebi and Edremit Türe are on the run. The indictment calls for certain of the suspects to be sentenced to life sentences 101 times over, but also for “attempting to change the constitutional order” and “murdering 100 people,” for which cumulative jail terms would be from 7,631 to 11,750 years for attempting to murder 391 people as part of the activity of a terrorist organization and possession of unlicensed arms and explosives as part of the activity of a terrorist organization. [Cumhuriyet]
We thank our friend in Turkey for this report.
REPORTS FROM SYRIA
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) says 655 civilians were killed by Coalition airstrikes since September 2014. It also says the airstrikes killed 5,470 Daesh terrorists and 138 Nusra terrorists. [SyriaHR]
DaeshDaily comment. The 655 seems like a high number as a percentage of the total Daesh casualties, but we don’t know the SOHR’s definition of “civilians,” a definition Daesh has consistently manipulated.
The US Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Joseph Dunford, after meeting with his counterpart in Ankara, says the Coalition is working with Turkey on a long term plan to capture and govern Raqqa. [Anadolu]
The Turkey Deputy Prime Minister says Turkey’s priority in Raqqa, as in Aleppo and Mosul, is that “demographic changes” do not occur. [Qasioun]
The Coalition says it conducted 18 airstrikes on Daesh targets in Syria, 16 of them in the Ain Eissa area, the other two in Mare’ (1) and Albu Kamal (1). [InherentResolve] All the airstrikes in the Ain Eissa area were because of a Daesh offensive in the area.
Northeast (Hasaka, Raqqa)
Hasaka
The YPG says it blocked a wide-scale Daesh attack in Al-Malha village, inflicting heavy casualties to the attackers. The YPG says that although the battle is still on, its units are in control. [Hawar]
Daesh says its terrorists broke into two “PKK” position near Al-Malha village, southwest of Shaddadi. [A3maq]
Here Daesh says it killed or wounded more than thirty five “PKK” fighters near Al-Malha village. [A3maq]
An IED exploded in front of the national hospital in Qamishli without causing any casualties, hospital sources said. [ARA]
The YPG says that the Turkish army targeted its units in Ain Dewar with machine gun fire. No casualties were reported as the YPG fired back. [Hawar]
YPG says it killed 12 Daesh terrorists during Daesh’s failed attack on the villages of Qardisan, Qadriya, and Shamseddin. [Hawar]
Daesh attacked the village of Bir Haba, south of Mount Abdul Aziz, with heavy weapons. [Hawar]
The Turkish army is continuing construction of trenches in the Derek area near the village of Kardamiya, while over 10 armored vehicles have crossed over the “Rojava” borders for reconnaissance missions. [Hawar]
A refugee from Mosul in Al-Hawl refugee camp said that he had to pay $2600 to smugglers to get him and his family out of Mosul, but they smuggled him alone and returned his family. He said that life in Mosul is becoming more miserable with strict Daesh practices and a multitude of roadblocks and checkpoints. He said that Coalition airstrikes are not that useful as they target administrative buildings that were evacuated by Daesh, which now operates from civilian houses after expelling their owners. He said that one raid killed 22 civilians near the fourth bridge. He described the situation in Mosul as very sad, yet he said the hope of return is giving the refugees the power to go on. [Hawar]
A local source says Daesh beheaded 2 of its members in Markada because they were smuggling people outside the city. [ARA]
A local source says a Daesh emir survived an assassination attempt when an IED exploded under his vehicle near a medical center in Markada. [ARA]
Daesh said it killed two “PKK” members and wounded others with an IED in Hay Al-Nashwa in Hasaka city on Friday. [A3maq]
Local sources said an IED exploded on an Asayesh vehicle in Hay Al-Nashwa, without causing casualties.
Raqqa
The SOHR said on Sunday that 30,000 SDF fighters, supported by the Coalition, started the Raqqa liberation campaign. [SyriaHR]
The SOHR says the SDF captured more than 10 villages and farms in the 2 days of its Raqqa liberation operations. [SyriaHR]
The SDF forces have advanced 12 km (7.5 miles) from Ain Essa city towards Raqqa, liberating Obeid, Laqta, and four other villages, as well as the farms of Jihad and Sheikh Salih to the southeast. 10 terrorists were killed and 2 car bombs destroyed. The SDF also destroyed a vehicle bomb near the liberated farm of Jadou.
The operation is under US support according to defense secretary Ashton Carter, who says that the initial goal is to isolate Raqqa from its surroundings before liberating it. Gen. Stephen J. Townsend, the commander of the International Coalition, says the operation will help prevent Daesh terrorists from moving into Mosul as well as contributing to Daesh’s final defeat. The SDF announced the start of Raqqa liberation operations yesterday. [PUKMedia] [IraqPress] [Mawazin] [Hawar] [Hawar] [Hawar]
A Daesh attack with a vehicle bomb on the village of Laqta on the road to Raqqa left tens of civilian casualties. The attack targeted a gathering of tradesmen from Damascus and Aleppo. Laqta was the main village liberated by the SDF and 10 Daesh fighters were killed there. [Hawar] [Hawar]
The SDF announced the composition of its forces to take part in the liberation of Raqqa, which is called the Euphrates Fury. It will include the YPG, YPJ, Raqqa Falcons, Liberation Brigade, Raqqa Martyrs Brigade, Turkmen Martyrs Brigade, Raqqa Freemen Brigade, Tal Abyad Martyrs Brigade, and the Syrian Military Council. The SDF says that the 30,000-man force will get around 80% of its fighters from Raqqa. It called on Turkey to keep away from Syrian affairs. [Hawar] [Hawar]
The SDF says that the populations of various areas in Raqqa are flowing towards liberated areas. [Hawar]
Abu Ikrima Al-Anbari, the financial officer of Daesh in Raqqa, escaped with $300,000 to an unknown location, according to local sources. The source said that Al-Anbari is not the first command figure of Daesh to escape Raqqa with the group’s money. A search campaign was initiated for him in Raqqa and surroundings. [ARA]
Daesh closed down 7 internet cafes in Raqqa. It started an extensive search for persons of Kurdish ethnicity in the city and established new checkpoints. Several young men have already been arrested, as mobile phones are checked for names and software. [ARA]
A local activist says Daesh captured a woman from an internet cafe in Raqqa after accusing her of “spying” for the SDF. [ARA]
Daesh says it destroyed 6 SDF vehicles (which it called “PKK” vehicles), one of them carrying a heavy machine gun, with missiles, southeast of Ain Eissa. [A3maq]
Daesh says it destroyed a “PKK” armored vehicle with a missile near Hadriya village north of Raqqa, killing the fighters inside. [A3maq]
Daesh said on Sunday that it killed fourteen PKK fighters with a car bomb near Laqta village, southeast of Suluk. [A3maq]
Daesh said on Sunday that it killed sixteen SDF fighters in another suicide attack near the Laqta area. [A3maq]
Daesh said on Saturday it attacked “PKK” fighters in 6 villages east of the Tishrin Dam and east and west of Ain Eissa, killing or wounding thirty-five fighters. Daesh says American planes intervened and conducted airstrikes on the villages. Daesh also says most of its terrorists returned safely to their positions. [A3maq]
Daesh says Coalition planes targeted 2 houses in Laqta village, killing at least six civilians. [A3maq]
Daesh issues a video of destroying two “PKK” cars southeast of Ain Eissa. [A3maq]
Daesh publishes photos of “normal life” in Raqqa. [DawaAlhaq]
Northwest (Aleppo, Idlib)
Aleppo city
Opposition shelled the Kurdish Sheikh Maqsoud neighborhood in Aleppo with heavy artillery. They also used sniper fire, which resulted in an injury of 17 years old boy. [Hawar] [Hawar]
The ground battles in and round Aleppo between the governmental army and the opposition are continuing in three areas, under air cover from Syrian warplanes. Ten civilians were reported lost during Syrian air attacks on seven neighborhoods in the city. Airstrikes on Dar Azza left 11 more dead. The opposition shelled Ashrafiya, Dawar Basil, Hamdaniya and New Aleppo with rockets. The army forces are backed by Al-Nujaba Iraqi Shia militia. [Hawar] [ARA]
Jarabulus
4 Turkish tanks, 7 BMPs, and 10 various vehicles entered the city of Jarabulus, local sources said. The Turkish reinforcement coincides with the SDF move toward Raqqa, the sources noted. Hawar]
Al-Bab
Turkey-backed opposition militias continued their advance northwest of Al-Bab, liberating the villages of Battal, Sheberan, Tel Jerji, and Sheikh Jarrah. The attack was accompanied by heavy Turkish artillery shelling that left many Daesh casualties. The opposition also liberated the villages of Ayoubiya, Amiriyah, and Jubain. [ARA] [ARA] [Qasioun]
The opposition forces also liberated Al-Burj city after killing 15 Daesh terrorists, under air cover from Coalition planes and artillery support of the Turkish army. [ARA]
Local activists say two brothers were killed and their third brother lost his legs from a Daesh land mine as they were trying to escape from Daesh in Shawa village, north of Al-Bab. Hundreds of civilian Kurds are leaving their houses in the area and moving toward Afrin. [BasNews]
Azaz
A Turkish drone was surveying the area of Tal Sha’er west of Kobane. The flight coincided with heavy Turkish artillery shelling on the village of Ziyarta. [Hawar]
Daesh says it recaptured Ablah, Shadoud, and Baraan villages. [A3maq]
Daesh publishes photos of battles with the PKK northeast of Aleppo Industrial city. [Isdarat]
Afrin
Syrian opposition with heavy weapons attacked the village of Manazi west of Afrin. [Hawar]
Manbij
Daesh attacked with heavy weapons the village of Tel Osman, southeast of Tishrin Dam. [Hawar]
Central and West (Homs, Hama, etc.)
Battles broke out in Homs between Daesh and government forces, who received air cover from the army and Russian air force, which bombed the villages of Sukhnah, Teba, and Shandakhiyat, killing over 20 terrorists. [ARA]
The SOHR says the Syrian Army captured several Daesh positions north of Tadmur. [SyriaHR]
East (Deir Ez-Zor)
Coalition planes launched heavy airstrikes on Daesh locations near Albu Kamal city and near the Syria- Iraq border. [Qasioun]
Local sources say Daesh executed a woman and her husband after accusing them of blasphemy. A local activists say foreign terrorists stopped her in the street after accusing her of wearing a pair of shoes that don’t conform to Daesh’s dress code and when she resisted they shot and killed her, accusing her of blasphemy. They also say the next day when her husband protested to a Daesh court, he was arrested and tortured to death. [ARA]
Local activists told the SOHR that Daesh executed two people in 2 villages west of Deir Ez-Zor, after accusing them of robbery. One of the victims was 16 years old. [SyriaHR] [Rudaw]
A local activist says Daesh is forcing people in Albu Kamal to wear Afghani style dresses, and are charging people large amounts of money to sell them these dresses in Deir Ez-Zor. He also says Daesh is arresting many people, after accusing them of selling cigarettes or smuggling people outside of the city. Another local activist says Daesh confiscated tens of houses in Albu Kamal in order to give them to Daesh terrorists coming from Iraq. [ARA]
A local activist says the Syrian Army, supported by warplanes, stopped a Daesh attack on the Deir Ez-Zor Military Airport, killing or wounding several fighters and destroying a machine gun-mounted vehicle. Warplanes also targeted Deir Ez-Zor city and wounded seven civilians in Halabiya village northwest of the city. [ARA]
The SOHR said Daesh shelled government controlled areas in Deir Ez-Zor, killing one soldier. [SyriaHR]
South (Rif Damashq, Suwayda, Daraa, etc.)
Twenty-two civilians, including children, were killed by Syrian Army shelling and bombing east of Damascus on Sunday. [Qasioun]
Daesh publishes photos of schools in the Yarmouk Basin area. [DawaAlhaq]
DaeshDaily comment. What great PR for the Syrian government! The government is killing its own children while terrorists are putting other Syrian kids in school.
OTHER MIDDLE EAST/NORTH AFRICA REPORTS
North Africa
Egypt
Security units shelled ABM terrorists in Akkour village, south of Sheikh Zuweid, killing 50 terrorists and wounding 30 and destroying 6 vehicles and 10 motorcycles. [VetoGate]
Security units destroyed 18 IEDs and landmines in Abu Tawila and Akkour villages, south of Sheikh Zuweid. [ElWatan]
13 of these landmines were planted around a school in Akkour village. [VetoGate]
A security source says a soldier was killed by a sniper bullet near Abu Tawila village, south of Sheikh Zuweid. [ElWatan]
A security source says Counter Terrorism artillery shelled on Saturday a house where ABM terrorists were hiding in Al-Touma village, south of Sheikh Zuweid, killing 20 terrorists. [ElWatan]
4 other terrorists were killed when the CT units destroyed their vehicle. [VetoGate]
Security sources say two Counter Terrorism soldiers were killed and another wounded when an IED exploded on their patrol south of Sheikh Zuweid. [ElWatan] [VetoGate] [VetoGate]
Security units allowed the residents of 4 areas south of Sheikh Zuweid to return to their houses on Saturday after the areas were cleared of terrorists. [VetoGate]
Eyewitnesses say a man and a woman were killed and three other civilians wounded when mortar shells fell on houses in Yamit village, west of Rafah. [ElWatan]
Medical sources say a 17-year-old young man was killed and two others wounded when a shell hit a house in Hay Al-Rasm, west of Rafah. [ElWatan]
Eyewitnesses say a child was killed when a shell hit a farm west of Rafah. [ElWatan]
Libya
Northeast
The Daesh military commander in Benghazi was killed 2 days ago in a Libyan airstrike on the Qawarsha area. [AfriGate]
Security units captured a Daesh car bomb in the Hawari area in Benghazi on Sunday. [Wasat]
Central coast
Daesh said on Saturday that it killed or wounded 33 Government of National Accord (GNA) fighters in Sirte. [A3maq]
A GNA military source says the father of the Daesh emir in Sirte surrendered with his family. The source says the father admitted that his son, Hassan Karami, was killed in August. [AfriGate]
The GNA military spokesman said on Sunday that his troops captured more villages in Giza, killing many Daesh terrorists. However, he admitted that Daesh’s fierce resistance is delaying the full liberation of the area. [AfriGate]
He said Daesh is trapped in a very small area, but added that his troops need weapons and the GNA is not providing them. [Wasat]
A notable GNA field commander was severely wounded by a Daesh sniper in Giza. [AfriGate]
A Libyan air force source says the Coalition continued its air sorties to support the GNA military in Sirte. [AfriGate]
Multiple U.S. defense officials told Fox News the U.S. military had suspended its bombing campaign against Daesh in Sirte.
Misrata Hospital says two GNA soldiers were killed and twenty wounded in Sirte battles on Saturday. [Wasat]
The GNA Military said it secured 14 civilians from Sirte on Sunday. [Wasat]
A medical convoy arrived in east Sirte on Saturday. [AfriGate]
Tunisia
The Tunisian Ministry of Defense said on Saturday that a soldier was killed by a group of terrorists. [AfriGate]
Daesh said it assassinated a Tunisian soldier near his house in Kasserine on Saturday. [A3maq]
The Tunisian Ministry of Interior says security units captured 3 Daesh terrorists in Gabes who admitted their role in helping Daesh members travel to Syria. [Tunisien]
The Ministry had said on Sunday that security units captured 2 Daesh terrorists in Tataouine who were planning to travel to Libya. [Wasat]
Other countries
Somalia
Daesh said on Sunday that it attacked a government building in the Bay region with hand grenades. [A3maq]
Daesh said on Sunday that it targeted a police station in Hay Tawfiq in Mogadishu city with hand grenades. [A3maq]
Daesh says the Deputy Commander of the police station was killed from wounds he sustained in the attack. [A3maq]
Pakistan
Daesh says it killed two people and wounded another in an attack in Karachi city. [Isdarat]
SOCIAL MEDIA
Videos of the Day
Iraq
Videos of Iraqi forces entering Hammam Al-Alil [YouTube] [YouTube] [YouTube]
An Iraqi soldier meeting his family in Hammam Al-Alil after a long separation [YouTube]
People from Ninewa welcoming Iraqi forces [Dijla] [YouTube] [Mayadeen]
A video of Iraqi forces in east Mosul [YouTube]
A video of BBC crew surviving a suicide attack in Mosul [BBC]
A video of an Iraqi soldier taking a selfie while a Daesh vehicle bomb is charging [YouTube]
A video of Iraqi soldiers having fun near a captured Daesh vehicle bomb [YouTube]
A video of a Daesh vehicle bomb captured by PMFs west of Mosul [YouTube]
Syria
A video of Daesh documents found by opposition fighters west of Aleppo [YouTube]
Libya
A video of a Daesh prison in Sirte captured by the GNA [Al-Aan]
DAESH MEDIA
Daesh audio newsletter for today [Bayan]
Daesh issues infographics about the third week of Mosul battles. [A3maq]
Daesh issues a propaganda video from its terrorists in Deir Ez-Zor. The terrorists in the video ask Daesh terrorists in Mosul to hold their ground and threatened the Shia that Daesh will come after them. [Isdarat]