An Update On ISIS Activities

September 27, 2016

September 27, 2016

Suleimaniya Demonstrations (ROJ)

Suleimaniya Demonstrations (ROJ)

Today’s Major Developments

Coalition spokesman says there are 8,000 Coalition troops (including 4,500 Americans) in Iraq. []

Daesh unleashes wave of suicide, IED attacks in Baghdad. []

Coalition, IAA, Iraqi troops fend off Daesh attack southwest of Shirqat. []

Major protests rock Suleimaniya, Halabja. []

PYD imposes its own curriculum on schools in its area; excludes Arab, Christian children. []

UN envoy sounds alarm about political impasse, infighting in Libya. []

 

REPORTS FROM IRAQ

 

NATIONAL NEWS

Prime Minister Abadi says he’s surprised by Erdogan’s statement about Mosul liberation operations, and that Turkey has no role in the military operations. He also says that the international community wants to see a unified Iraq. He added that Kurdistan doesn’t have any intention to separate from Iraq. He also says the KRG should ensure transparency regarding transporting oil. [Mada] [Mada]

 

The Coalition spokesman, Colonel John Dorian, says Turkish troops in Iraq are not part of the Coalition, and that the Iraqi Government will decide on the participants in Mosul’s liberation. He says Daesh was trying to develop chemical weapons using a medicine factory in Mosul, but the Coalition destroyed the factory. He says the Coalition will not participate with combat units in the Mosul liberation, but will provide logistics support and airstrikes. He says there are 8,000 Coalition soldiers in Iraq, including 4,500 Americans. He says there are 3,000-5,000 Daesh terrorists in Mosul. [Mada] [Mada] [Mada] [Mada] [Sumaria]

DaeshDaily comment. In other words, Daesh is outnumbered even by the Coalition troops?

 

The Defense Committee of the Iraqi Parliament has announced that it would summon the Turkish Ambassador after Erdogan announced that the date for the launch of operations to recapture Mosul from Daesh would be October 19th in remarks to journalists as he returned from New York on Sunday. [Buratha]

DaeshDaily comment. To our knowledge, Ambassadors are not obliged to respond to demands from legislatures.

 

A member of the COR’s Security and Defense Committee says the Committee concluded its report about the Karrada explosion that killed around three hundred people in July. He says the report shows corruption in a contract which sold the government over-age bomb-sniffing dogs and corruption in a civil defense equipment contract. [Mada]

DaeshDaily comment. The Karrada VBIED came from Diyala where it passed through a checkpoint with an over-age dog that did not detect the bomb. The thieves who are participating in killing thousands of Iraqis, to get money from contracts, are still in power and still protected by their parties. Even the few who were indicted will be released by the Amnesty Law. One of Iraq’s biggest problems is that its “government of national unity” has been a government of cover-up.

 

The Coalition conducted 11 airstrikes on Daesh targets in Iraq, eight of them in Ninewa: four in the Mosul area and one each in Qayara and nearby Sultan Abdullah, and in Kasik and Sinjar in the northwest. The other three were on Al-Qa’im (1), Haditha (1), and Baiji (1). [InherentResolve]

 

BAGHDAD

Security-related incidents reported

Center (Rusafa, Karkh, etc.)

The Manager of Karkh Health Directorate says a hand grenade was thrown at his house, causing damage. [Mada]

 

North (Tarmiya, Taji, etc.)

A police source says security members killed a suicide terrorist who tried to detonate his explosives vest on them in Taji. [Sumaria]

Iraqi Army 45th brigade found an explosives vest and 3 IEDs in the Dhabitya area. [BOC Facebook Page]

Iraqi Army 22nd brigade destroyed a Daesh guesthouse in the Salman area. [BOC Facebook Page]

Iraqi Army 43rd brigade found 7 IEDs and an explosive cache in Rashidiya. [BOC Facebook Page]

Daesh says they ambushed and killed an Iraqi soldier in the Salman area in Tarmiya. [JustPaste]

 

Northeast (Adhamiya, etc.)

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

 

East (Sadr City, New Baghdad, etc.)

An MoI source says a suicide terrorist detonated his explosive vest in Baghdad Jadida, killing eight people and wounding twenty-seven. [Mada]

Daesh says one of its Iraqi suicide terrorists detonated himself in a Shia gathering in Baghdad Al-Jadida, killing or wounding more than fifty people. [JustPaste]

 

An MoI source says the body of a food trader was found shot hours after he was kidnapped in the Ma’amel area. [Mada]

An MoI source says armed men in military uniforms hijacked a vehicle in the Binouk area and stole the salaries of a nearby school. [Mada]

 

Southeast (Mada’in, etc.)

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

An MoI source says the body of an unknown man was found shot in Zafaraniya. [Sumaria]

 

South (Dora, Yusufiyah, Mahmudiya, etc.)

An MoI source says one person was killed and eight wounded when an IED exploded near a wholesale market in Abu Dsheer, in Dora. [Mada]

Iraqi Army 55th brigade found an IED in the Arab Dawood area. [BOC Facebook Page]

 

Southwest (Rasheed, etc.)

An MoI source says a suicide terrorist detonated his explosives vest in Bayaa, killing eleven people and killing thirty-three. [Mada]

Daesh says one of its Iraqi suicide terrorists detonated himself in a Shia gathering in Bayaa, killing or wounding more than forty people. [JustPaste]

 

An MoI source says two people were killed and five wounded when an IED exploded in the industrial area in Bayaa. [Mada]

 

West (Ghazaliya, Abu Ghraib, etc.)

Security sources say two people were killed when a roadside IED exploded near a livestock market in Radwaniya. [AIN]

An MoI source says three civilians were wounded when an IED exploded near a popular cafe in Tobchi. [Sumaria]

Iraqi Army 24th brigade found an explosive vest in the Bani Zaid area. [BOC Facebook Page]

 

Total Baghdad incidents reported:   19   (Includes only incidents reported)

 

ANBAR

The Anbar Governor says 62,000 displaced families returned to their houses in Ramadi, Falluja, Saqlawiya, and Qarma. [Sumaria]

 

Ramadi

The MoD says Iraqi Army 10th division, supported by the IAA, stopped a Daesh attack in Albu Ali Al-Jassem, killing 14 terrorists and destroying 4 vehicle bombs, 2 vehicles, 2 mortar units, and an ammunition cache. [Harbi]

 

The MoD says Iraqi Army 8th division destroyed 4 Daesh vehicles with Kornet missiles in the Albu Dhiab area. [Harbi]

The Anbar Operations Commander says his troops destroyed a Daesh house with a Kornet missile north of Albu Dhiab, killing 5 terrorists. [Sumaria]

 

Daesh says it targeted the Anbar governorate building in Ramadi with 3 locally made rockets. [JustPaste]

 

Hit/Haditha

The MoD says Coalition planes killed 20 Daesh terrorists in Hay Al-Bakr in Hit district. [Harbi]

 

Daesh says it killed eight Sahwa fighters from the Jaghaifa tribe with an IED in the Khasfa area west of Haditha and captured 6 boats. [A3maq] [JustPaste]

DaeshDaily comment. Just being from this anti-Daesh tribe makes you automatically a “Sahwa fighter” for Daesh.  

 

Daesh says a group of its terrorists attacked Iraqi Army positions on the road between Baiji and Haditha, killing or wounding several soldiers, burning down several buildings, and destroying a machine gun mounted vehicle before returning safely. [JustPaste]

 

Coalition planes killed 2 Daesh terrorists and destroyed a vehicle carrying weapons and explosives and destroyed 5 rocket launchers east of Baghdadi. [MoD Website]

 

Rutba/Western Anbar

The IWMC says Iraqi Sukhois targeted Daesh gatherings in the Akashat and Saqra areas, killing “tens” of terrorists. [Baghdadia]

 

SALAHUDDIN

Shirqat

According to the MoD:

The IAA killed ten Daesh terrorists and destroyed a vehicle carrying explosives near Zuwiya village, killing 6 terrorists. Coalition planes destroyed a Daesh pickup vehicle and killed 3 terrorists in the same village.

Salahuddin Operations Command destroyed 33 IEDs and found a car rigging factory and large quantities of explosives, destroying 17 tunnels near Zuwiya village.

 

The Salahuddin Operations Command report says Iraqi forces, supported by the IAA and Coalition planes, stopped a Daesh attack in the Tilul Al-Baj area, destroying 7 vehicle bombs, killing the suicide terrorists inside, in addition to killing 15 other terrorists. [Mada]

Daesh’s version says 3 of its Iraqi suicide terrorists attacked Iraqi forces in Tilul Al-Baj with 3 vehicle bombs, followed by a group of its terrorists attacking the forces. Daesh says it killed seventeen Iraqi soldiers and wounded twenty-three and destroyed 3 barracks, 10 vehicles, 2 BMP armored vehicles and captured weapons and ammunition in the attack. [JustPaste]

Here Daesh says it destroyed 3 Iraqi Humvee, 2 BMP armored vehicles, and 7 SUVs in the 3 attacks. [A3maq]

 

The IAA killed 15 Daesh terrorists north of Tilul Al-Baj. Coalition planes destroyed 2 vehicle bombs in Ain Sdaid village, west of Tilul Al-Baj. [MoD Website]

The IAA killed 4 Daesh terrorists and destroyed a vehicle bomb near Tilul Al-Baj. [MoD Website]

Coalition planes killed 9 Daesh terrorists and destroyed a heavy machine gun near Al-Naml village south of Shirqat. Coalition planes also killed 15 Daesh terrorists and destroyed 2 machine gun-mounted vehicles south of Shirqat. [Harbi]

 

Daesh publishes photos of a suicide attack with a vehicle bomb conducted by an Iraqi terrorist on an Army barracks near Tilul Al-Baj. [JustPaste]

DaeshDaily comment. As in many previous Daesh reports, the barracks seems abandoned.

Daesh publishes a photo of an Iraqi terrorist claiming he conducted a suicide attack on Iraqi forces in Tilul Al-Baj. [JustPaste]

 

An Iraqi Army captain says Daesh executed a woman who was trying to escape Sdaira village, east of Shirqat. [BasNews]

 

Daesh says it targeted PMF positions in the Dibis, Zuwiya, and Asmeda areas with 22 mortars and 5 artillery shells. [JustPaste]

 

Daesh also says it targeted PMF positions with a Grad rocket in the Mazraa area. [JustPaste]

 

Tikrit

The MoD says Salahuddin Emergency Police stopped a Daesh attack in Al-Salam village in Tikrit district, killing a suicide terrorist and confiscating an explosives vest. It says the terrorists were wearing military uniforms. [Harbi]

Daesh said yesterday it attacked a security barrier near Al-Salam village, northwest of Tikrit, and killed the security troops there using guns with silencers, and a suicide terrorist detonated himself on the supporting Iraqi troops.

 

The Chairman of Al-Daur District Council says Daesh terrorists attacked Al-Aitha village east of Al-Daur, and blew up 5 empty houses with IEDs. He says Daesh had destroyed around 100 empty houses within a week in the area, forcing 15 families to leave their houses. He warns that Daesh is returning to the area after the pressure on Daesh increased in other areas. [Mada]

Daesh says it blew up a “PMF” Intelligence officer with IEDs and burned down 5 PMF members’ houses in Hassan village in Tal Ksaiba, east of Tikrit. [JustPaste]

 

Daesh says it damaged an Iraqi Army vehicle with an IED in the Jalam area in Al-Daur, wounding two soldiers. [JustPaste]

 

DIYALA

Baquba/southeast Diyala

Daesh says a group of its terrorists attacked a police barracks in Khan Bani Saad with light weapons, wounding one policeman and forcing the rest to flee. [JustPaste]

 

Daesh says it assassinated a policeman in Baquba city center, using a silenced gun. [JustPaste]

 

A security source says unknown armed men shot and killed a man and his son, 14 km (9 miles) northeast of Baquba. [Sumaria]

 

A security source says unknown armed men shot and killed two young men in Kanaan subdistrict. [Maalomah]

 

Muqdadiya/Abu Saida

Daesh says it killed three Iraqi soldiers and wounded two in an attack on the Qubba area in Muqdadiya. [A3maq]

 

Southern Diyala (Balad Ruz, Mandali)

Daesh says it killed an Iraqi government “spy recruiter” in the Nida area using a silenced gun. [JustPaste]

 

KIRKUK

Kirkuk

Daesh says it assassinated a Peshmerga fighter in downtown Kirkuk city. [A3maq]

 

Hawija

A local source says Daesh emptied 5 of its main offices in Hawija city and moved its terrorists to the outskirts, in anticipation of an Iraqi forces’ attack. [Sumaria]

 

Security sources say Coalition planes targeted several Daesh positions in Hawija, killing 10 terrorists and wounding 14, and destroying 4 tactical units. [Sumaria]

 

A PMF commander says a woman killed a Daesh terrorist with a knife after he tried to kidnap her 9-year-old daughter in Hawija. [Sumaria]

 

The Displacement and Migration Directorate in Kirkuk says it received 450 families who escaped from Daesh controlled areas in Riyadh. [Mada]

 

NINEWA

Qayara

A Ninewa police commander says Coalition planes destroyed 3 Daesh vehicle bombs in Al-Hawd village. [BasNews]

 

The MoD says Coalition planes destroyed a Daesh vehicle bomb and killed 4 terrorists south of Qayara. [Harbi]

 

Ninewa health authorities are conducting a vaccination campaign for children against polio and measles in Qayara (video). [Mawsleya]

 

PMFs shot down a Daesh drone west of Qayara, Ninewa Deputy Governor Ahmad Al-Jubouri said on Tuesday. [PressIraq]

 

The Coalition spokesman says the lab results show that the Daesh shell that hit Qayara Airfield on September 20th didn’t contain any chemicals. [ARA]

 

Nineveh Plain

A Peshmerga Ministry source says Peshmerga artillery targeted Daesh positions in Bashiqa subdistrict, killing 8 terrorists. The source also says Coalition planes targeted Daesh positions in Al-Khazer, killing “tens” of terrorists and damaging 2 vehicles. [BasNews]

 

An unspecified number of Iraqi troops have reportedly arrived in the Al-Khazer area east of Mosul, and will reportedly fan out deploy to the Bashiqa front northeast of Mosul and to the Mosul Dam area north of the city, just 20 km (12.5 miles) from the center of Mosul city. [PressIraq]

 

Daesh publishes a photo of targeting Peshmerga positions in Dawasa village with mortars. [JustPaste]

 

Mosul

With the loss of Shirqat, Daesh lost its “first line of defense” for Mosul, according to the spokesman of the Joint Operations Command (JOC), who explained that the capture of Shirqat cuts the Daesh communication lines between Mosul and Hawija, its last territory in Kirkuk governorate. Iraqi troops in Shirqat have now begun preparations for the advance toward Mosul. [NewSabah]

 

Daesh has dug tunnels through Mosul city connecting the Shalalat area northeast of the city with the Nourat area in Qayara subdistrict, and connecting the city’s Right and Left Banks, according to a security source. The source added that Mosul’s soil is rocky and full of groundwater which would impede Daesh’s ability to dig tunnels larger than 1.5 meters. [Knooz]

DaeshDaily comment. It is unclear from the story if the source is referring to 1.5 meters as the maximum diameter of the tunnels or as the maximum depth of the tunnels.

 

After Coalition airstrikes destroyed a Daesh vehicle in the Sumer neighborhood in eastern Mosul, Daesh directed its members to travel by motorcycle within the city rather than by car to avoid being targeted by airstrikes, according to sources in Mosul. [Mawsleya]

Daesh fighters are conducting combat training in the sports stadiums, playing fields, and large halls of the city, according to local sources. [Mawsleya]

 

A Special Committee for Relief of the Displaced from Mosul has met to develop a plan for humanitarian action to help those displaced by the fighting in Mosul, according to the Iraqi JOC spokesman. The cross-ministerial committee is planning to provide transport, fuel, shelter, and medical supplies to Moslawi IDPs. [AYN]

 

A Daesh raiding party detained “one of the most prominent food merchants” in central Mosul’s Al-Bursa market after he refused to sell food to Daesh members or cooperate with them, according to a local source in Ninewa who said the trader was taken to the Daesh “Sharia Court” in Bab Al-Tob neighborhood to make him appear before the court. [Sumaria]

 

Unknown parties in Mosul attached images of Daesh’s “caliph” Awwad Baghdadi to donkeys in Mosul prompting Daesh members to pursue the animals and kill them, according to a well-placed source in the city. Daesh then conducted house-to-house searches in an attempt to locate the perpetrators, the source added. [Sumaria]

 

Daesh arrested three fully veiled women in central Mosul, including one foreigner who was carrying a Glock pistol, a local source in Mosul said. The women were taken straightaway to a Daesh security installation in the area, the source added. Daesh intensified its surveillance of women in Mosul after a series of deadly attacks involving veiled women on Daesh members, the source explained. [Sumaria]

 

An unidentified “resistance” group has raised the Iraqi flag near the former Ninewa provincial headquarters in Mosul, according to local sources in Mosul. Daesh conducted raids and searches after the flag was displayed, searching for other Iraqi flags. [Mawsleya]

 

Mosul’s hospitals are nearly empty of specialist doctors, and those who remain are being “monopolized” by Daesh to treat its injured members, according to local sources. A growing number of civilians are unable to access specialized care within Mosul and are also unable to leave the city to seek treatment elsewhere. [Mawsleya]

 

There has been a sharp rise in prices for foods and basic consumer goods in Mosul amid a rush by Mosul residents to make purchases in advance of the anticipated assault on the city, local sources said. The sources repeated earlier reports that much of what food remains on the shelves is expired food but that residents have no other choice but to purchase it. [Mawsleya]

 

Daesh says it targeted Peshmerga positions in Kafraj Camp with 16 mortars. [JustPaste]

 

Northwest (Tal Afar, Sinjar)

Daesh says it targeted Peshmerga positions in different areas in Ninewa with 9 rockets and 61 mortars. [JustPaste]

 

KURDISTAN

Thousands of people demonstrated in Suleimaniya and Halabja demanding reforms and economic improvements. [Sumaria]

The acting governor of Suleimaniya promised the demonstrators he would go to Erbil to submit their demands to the KRG, and would not go back to his work before these demands were met. [Sumaria]

Representatives of four major parties (Gorran, PUK, Islamic Group, and Islamic Union) participated in the demonstrations. [SotKurdistan]

Organizers of a protest in Suleimaniya demanded the resignation of the education minister, scrapping of austerity measures, and lifting of taxes against the poor.

The protest, by the so-called Board of Dissatisfied People, drew thousands of demonstrators.

At the news conference later in the day, the organizers said they wanted the education minister sacked because his postponement of the opening of schools “was an attempt to suppress the dissatisfied voice of teachers.” The protest was over reduced and delayed salaries of teachers.  They also called for the scrapping of austerity measures and lifting of taxes on the poor. “Dissolve the imposed austerity measures and pay wages on time,” the organizers said in a statement read the news conference and published on their website.

“Lift taxes and fines on the poor people,” the statement said.

It also called for the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) to provide all health and education services free of charge or for a symbolic fee, and urged government employees to continue their labor strikes. [Rudaw]

Hundreds of demonstrators demanded the resignation of the KRG President, Masoud Barzani. [SotKurdistan]

DaeshDaily comment. The sources matter in interpreting this somewhat confusing story. Rudaw is friendly to the KDP, SotKurdistan with Gorran. With the protests being in Suleimaniya and the participants representing four of the five politically significant KRG parties, this looks like an anti-Barzani, anti-KDP protest most of all. This further reflects the ongoing political crisis in the KRG, which complicates the solution to other problems. While the protesters may have justified grievances, the KRG is so poor right now that demands for free and more services can’t be taken too seriously at the moment.

 

The KRG intensified its security procedures in Erbil anticipating similar demonstrations. [ROJ]

 

SOUTHERN IRAQ

Qadisiya

A security source says 2 men wanted on terrorism charges were captured in Diwaniya. [Baghdadia]

 

Dhi Qar

Dhi Qar Police says a security unit captured 2 men accused of planting an IED north of Nasiriya. [Baghdadia]

 

REPORTS FROM SYRIA

 

The collapse of the latest Syria ceasefire has heightened the possibility that Gulf states might arm Syrian rebels with shoulder-fired missiles to defend themselves against Syrian and Russian warplanes, U.S. officials said on Monday.

Still, the Obama Administration continues to maintain that negotiations are the only way to end the carnage after Russian-backed Syrian forces intensified their bombing of Aleppo, the last major urban area in rebel hands. [Reuters]

 

A video of a group of Daesh terrorists, captured by the YPG, shows them talking about the crossing of terrorists and materials between Turkey and Syria. [Hawar]

 

Daesh publishes photos of areas under its control in Syria. [DawaAlhaq]

 

The Coalition says it conducted 9 airstrikes on Daesh targets in Syria, including three near Mare’ (3). The others were in or near Shaddadi, (1), Raqqa (1), Manbij (1), Deir Ez-Zor (2) and Abu Kamal (1). [InherentResolve]

 

Northeast (Hasaka, Raqqa)

Hasaka

A local activist says one person was killed and three wounded when a Daesh leftover mine exploded in Sirb village, southwest of Hasaka. [ARA]

 

A PYD official says it will not allow Arab and Kurdish students to enroll in Christian private schools, because they use the Syrian government curriculum. The PYD printed out its own curriculum and imposed it on schools in areas under its control. [EnabBaladi]

DaeshDaily comment. As in any good old-fashioned communist system, much of the curriculum talks about the virtues of the PKK leader, Abdullah Öcalan. Replacing a Pan-Arab nationalist dictatorship with a commie-type regime is not what the children of Hasaka deserve. Everyone is trying to impose their ideology on children. In that respect, the PYD is no better than Daesh.  

 

Raqqa

The Turkey Minister of Foreign Affairs says the United States is not able to get the PYD out of Manbij, so how can it get them out of Raqqa? He says the PYD is conducting racial cleansing and kicking out Arabs from their areas. [EnabBaladi]

 

Northwest (Aleppo, Idlib)

Jarabulus

Turkey backed opposition group sources say 2 American Humvees arrived for the Al-Hamza brigade, which is participating in the Euphrates Shield operation, and 8 more Humvees are on their way. [Qasioun]

 

Al-Bab

An opposition commander says Turkey-backed opposition groups, supported by Coalition planes, captured East and West Talaar after killing many Daesh terrorists. [ARA]

 

Azaz

Daesh targeted Um Al-Qura and Um Hawsh villages with mortars and heavy artillery, causing damage. SDF factions responded by shelling Daesh positions in the area. [Hawar]

 

An opposition commander says Turkey-backed opposition groups, supported by Coalition planes, launched a major attack on Daesh in Talalin town, northeast of Mare’. He says large numbers of civilians are leaving the town toward Ihtimailat. [ARA]

 

Afrin

The Turkish Army snipers shot and killed seventeen Syrian Arabs, including four children and several women, and wounded others, who were trying to cross the border into Mardin, Turkey. [Hawar] [Hawar]

 

The YPG says Daesh targeted Qadiriya village, east of the Tishrin Dam, with heavy and mid-sized weapons. It also says Turkey-backed opposition groups in Azaz shelled Qamiya village in Afrin with mortars and heavy artillery.  [Hawar]

 

Manbij

Kata’eb Shams Al-Shamal, a Manbij Military Council faction, stopped a Daesh attack on Mistariha village, 33 km (20.5 miles) southwest of Manbij, and forced the terrorists to retreat. [Hawar]

 

Daesh says people from the same family were killed by “American” airstrikes on Arima town west of Manbij. [A3maq]

 

Other Northwest Syria reports

Thirty four civilians have been killed in Aleppo by airstrikes and thirty four civilians were killed so far in eastern parts of Aleppo from Syrian airstrikes. [Qasioun]

 

The SOHR says eleven people were killed today by the airstrikes on Aleppo. It also says a child was killed by opposition groups shelling on Al-Zahra’ in Aleppo. [SyriaHR]

 

Central and West (Homs, Hama, etc.)

A local activist says Daesh launched a major attack on the Syrian Army and allied militias in the Sukkari and Silos areas, east of Homs. He says More than 30 Daesh terrorists were killed in battles in the area since yesterday. He also says Syrian planes destroyed a Daesh vehicle near Arak oilfield, killing or wounding 5 terrorists. [ARA]

 

Daesh publishes photos of publicly cutting off the hand of man after accusing him of theft in Hama. [JustPaste]

 

Daesh publishes a photo of a group of its terrorists in Hama. [JustPaste]

 

Daesh says it targeted the Syrian Army with mortars east of Silmiya. [JustPaste]

Daesh publishes photos of the shelling. [JustPaste]

 

East (Deir Ez-Zor)

A local activist says Daesh terrorists raided houses in several areas in Albu Kamal, searching for satellite receivers. He says Daesh captured four people in the raid and took them to an unknown location. [ARA]

 

A local activist says Coalition planes launched heavy airstrikes on Mayadin, destroying the Electricity Company and the bridge without causing civilian casualties. [ARA]

The Coalition had dropped leaflets earlier asking civilians to stay away from bridges and Daesh headquarters. The Coalition targeted Al-Amar Oilfield near Mayadin, in addition to other oilfields east of Deir Ez-Zor. [Qasioun]

Daesh says “American” planes destroyed the only bridge in Mayadin city east of Deir Ez-Zor. [A3maq]

 

The SOHR says Daesh cut of the hands of four people in Hay Al-Hamidiya in Deir E-Zor after accusing them of theft. [SyriaHR]

 

The SOHR says warplanes destroyed a bridge between Sabha and Albu Lail towns, east of Deir Ez-Zor. [SyriaHR]

 

OTHER MIDDLE EAST/NORTH AFRICA REPORTS

 

North Africa

Egypt

A security source says a police officer and three policemen were wounded when an IED exploded on their police vehicle on the International Road in Rafah. [ElWatan]

 

A policeman was wounded by a sniper at a checkpoint in south Rafah. [VetoGate]

 

Daesh says it “stopped” an Egyptian Army campaign near Rafah Port. [JustPaste]

 

Local sources say armed men shot at a police vehicle west of Arish, wounding one policeman. [ElWatan]

 

Local sources say ABM terrorists kidnapped a 36-year-old man in Abu Tawila village, south of Sheikh Zuweid, and stole his vehicle after accusing him of cooperating with security forces. [ElWatan]

 

Daesh says its snipers killed an Egyptian soldier in the Dhareb area in Sheikh Zuweid. [JustPaste]

 

Daesh publishes photos of its terrorists in Sinai. [JustPaste]

 

Libya

The UN envoy to the North African country, Martin Kobler, says Libya is facing “political impasse” and “hazardous military developments.” “Unfortunately, we are now facing a political impasse,” Kobler told a meeting of the UN’s Human Rights Council in Switzerland.

“At the same time, Libya is witnessing the unfolding of dangerous military developments,” he said, citing the takeover of key oil facilities by the forces of controversial Marshal Khalifa Haftar who does not recognize the GNA.

He also cited the fighting between forces loyal to the GNA against IS in Sirte, “with nearly 699 killed and thousands injured”.

“The multiple armed conflicts raging in Libya continue to directly impact the lives of civilians,” Kobler said, adding that between March 1 and August 31 the UN had “documented 287 civilian casualties, including 141 deaths and 146 injuries”. Among the victims were 30 children killed and 28 wounded.

 

Northeast

UN envoy Kobler says that in Libya’s second city Benghazi in the east, “more than 100 families are currently trapped in areas of fighting, facing constant bombing and shortages of food, medical care and electricity”. [AFP]

 

Central coast

The GNA Military Press says its troops destroyed 3 Daesh vehicle bombs in Sirte. A military source says American planes conducted 2 airstrikes on Daesh positions in Sirte on Sunday, killing 6 terrorists and destroying 2 vehicle bombs. [AfriGate] [Wasat]

 

A GNA military source says its planes destroyed 5 Daesh positions in Sirte. [Libya24]

 

An Italian newspaper says local Italian soldiers arrived in Misrata last week to protect an Italian field hospital that is being established in the city. [Wasat]

 

Other countries

Afghanistan

Daesh says it killed an Afghani soldier in his military position in the Khost area and took his weapons. [JustPaste]

 

SOCIAL MEDIA

Iraq

Video purports to show PMFs (Badr) stopping an attempted Daesh infiltration of their lines, details unspecified. [YouTube]

 

Ninewa

Video purports to show a “Coalition column” traveling toward Mosul, details unspecified. [YouTube]

Video purports to show PMF fighters (Badr forces) training in preparation for the Mosul battle. [YouTube]

Video purports to show a strange video chat between an Iraqi soldier from Nasiriya and a Daesh member in Mosul. The Iraqi soldier reminds the Daesh member (pictured speaking in the soldier’s phone display) of recent victories over Daesh and says soon Mosul will be recaptured. The Daesh member denies this (“No, you dog!”) and the chat ends with the soldier asking the Daesh member to take his personal number to confirm his words after Mosul falls. [YouTube]

 

Salahuddin

Video purports to show Iraqi soldiers dancing after the capture of Shirqat. [YouTube]

Video of Shirqat residents appealing for the authorities to clean up the city, raising their fear of disease spreading in the city because of the many corpses of slain Daesh fighters in the aftermath of the recent fighting. [YouTube]

 

Anbar

Video purports to show PMFs surveying Daesh corpses amid the aftermath of fighting in Jazeera Khaldiya. [YouTube]

 

Syria

Video purports to show Daesh burning a Syrian revolutionary flag, details unspecified. [YouTube]

A video of a large Daesh underground headquarters found in Manbij [Hawar]

 

OTHER DAESH MEDIA

 

Daesh audio newsletter for today [Bayan]

 

Daesh publishes a new issue of its Al-Naba’ magazine. [Naba]

 

Daesh publishes a new educational Android application for children. [DawaAlhaq]

 

 

 

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