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31 October 2016 18:26

 

Iraqi Army Discovers US-Made Missiles in ISIS's Military Base in Mosul

 

Iraqi Army Discovers US-Made Missiles in ISIS's Military Base in Mosul

Iraqi army and popular forces have discovered a number of US-made missiles from a military position of the ISIS (ISIL, IS, Daesh) in the Southern part of Mosul, informed local sources disclosed after the first group of pro-government troops opened their way into Southern Mosul on Monday.

"Several US-made missiles were found in al-Shoura region to the South of Mosul," a local source said on Monday.

The Iraqi army and popular forces had found US-made missiles in Anbar province several times before.

Provincial officials confirmed that the US-made weapons were sent by the US-led anti-ISIL coalition airplane for the ISIL terrorists in Anbar province.

Meantime, Iraqi security officials announced that the ISIL has sent US-made military equipment to Tal Afar region in the last two days to stand strong against Iraqi popular forces' impending attack to capture the region.

"The ISIL terrorists have sent US-made TOW anti-tank missiles to Tal Afar and it is quite evident that they are preparing for a long-term war," the Arabic-language media quoted an Iraqi security official as saying on Monday.

In late August 2015, a senior Iraqi intelligence official revealed that the US helicopters drop weapons and other aids for the ISIL terrorists in the Western province of al-Anbar.

"The fighters present at the forefront of fighting against the ISIL always see US helicopters flying over the ISIL-controlled areas and dropping weapons and urgent aids for them," the official who called for anonymity told FNA.

Yet, he said the helicopters could have also been sent from Turkey or Israel.

He added that in addition to dropping aids, the helicopters transfer the ISIL ringleaders and wounded members from the battleground to some hospitals in Syria or other countries which support the terrorist group.

The official cautioned that such assistance further prolongs the conflicts in Anbar, adding that when the Iraqi army and popular forces purge the terrorists from Anbar province, the US helicopters will transfer the ISIL ringleaders to other regions to prevent the Iraqi forces' access to ISIL secrets.

Also in March 2015, a group of Iraqi popular forces known as Al-Hashad Al-Shabi shot down the US Army helicopter that was carrying weapons for the ISIL in the Western parts of Al-Baghdadi region in Al-Anbar province.

Meantime in February 2015, a senior lawmaker disclosed that Iraq’s army had shot down two British planes as they were carrying weapons for the ISIL terrorists in Al-Anbar province.

“The Iraqi Parliament’s National Security and Defense Committee has access to the photos of both planes that are British and have crashed while they were carrying weapons for the ISIL,” al-Zameli said.    

 

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Iraq, November 3, 2016 

Aid agencies said on Wednesday families who have fled Mosul and surrounding towns were starting to reach displacement camps away from the fighting, as Iraqi forces press on with an offensive to retake Islamic State's last major stronghold in Iraq.

The battle that started on Oct. 17 with air and ground support from a U.S.-led coalition is shaping up as the largest in Iraq since the U.S.-led invasion of 2003.

On Tuesday Iraqi forces battled Islamic State fighters on the eastern edge of Mosul as the campaign entered a new phase of urban warfare.

The United Nations has said the Mosul offensive could trigger a humanitarian crisis and a possible refugee exodus if the civilians inside in Mosul seek to escape, with up to one million people fleeing in a worst-case scenario.

"People are starting to arrive now from the small towns around Mosul," Joe Cropp of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.

"We've been aware that this has been coming up and the preparations have been going on for two months," he said in a phone interview from northern Iraq. 

IFRC said many people were arriving with only the clothes they were wearing and those who reached Khazer camp, east of Mosul, said they had to walk through the night. 

"We were so worried the children would cry out during the night and we would be discovered," IFRC quoted one of the mothers as saying. 

Thousands more people are expected to arrive in the coming days and weeks as fighting around Mosul intensifies, IFRC said. Throughout the country, some 10 million Iraqis are in need of aid.

"Local communities across the country are sharing the responsibility, taking in millions of displaced people. But even with the greatest will in the world they cannot accommodate a million more," Gyula Kadar, IFRC operations manager, said in a statement.

The International Organization for Migration said nearly 21,000 people have been displaced since the start of the campaign, excluding thousands of villagers taken into Mosul by retreating jihadists who used them as human shields.

The U.N. said in October a total of six camps had been built that can accommodate 50,000 people. Efforts were underway to construct 11 more.

Claire Mason, humanitarian policy and advocacy adviser at Save the Children said for security reasons the charity was unable to get too close to Mosul and was readying mobile child protection teams to assist people scattered outside the city.

Betsy Baldwin, Iraq response director from the charity Tearfund, said several hundred people arrived the previous night in one of the camps where the charity was helping.

Baldwin said her organization had been on standby since summer, preparing tents, stoves and winter clothes which it was planning to distribute this week.

"We are just hoping that we can safely access people in need, that the civilians can move safely out of the conflict zones," she told the Thomson Reuters Foundation from Iraq.

International Rescue Committee said in a statement on Wednesday it had heard of people inside Mosul buying cloth to use as white flags when the army arrives.

 

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http://iraqdailyjournal.com/story-z14201936

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Urgent .. Immigration Minister announced the biggest wave of the process of liberalization of Mosul

 

 

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Twilight News / Minister of Displacement and Migration Jassim Mohammed dry announced that displaced more than 5,000 displaced people from Kokjla area that was restored from thegrip Daesh.

 

He said in an interview with Lord of Twilight News, he said the ministry teams today received five thousand displaced people from Kokjla first region to revive the city of Mosul, at the eastern tip has been housed in the Khazar camp 37 km east of Mosul.

 

He pointed out that the dry teams and the ministry in cooperation and coordination with partners and stakeholders and distributed relief goods, including emergency aid if they entered the camp included a fast food baskets and food baskets dry cooker oil as well as their distribution, including mattresses, blankets, clothes baskets.

 

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Control of the link between Mosul and Al Riqqa road

Iraqi forces entering Mosul and freed six of its neighborhoods

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  Iraqi forces progressing to Mosul

 

 

 

In the nineteenth day of its operations to liberate the North from the control of the organization Daesh city of Mosul, Iraqi forces entered the city today and freed six of its neighborhoods and raised the Iraqi flag which, as announced crowd popular cut Daesh between Mosul and the Syrian and tenderness supplies.

Elaf from London said a spokesman for the joint operations Brigadier General Yahya Messenger Counter - terrorism apparatus entered thecity of Mosul in which the left coast and was able to regain control ofthe revival of flowers and millions and Aden. He said in a televised statement I followed "Elaf" that the forces currently roll into other neighborhoods to complete control, a six districts for the completion of its liberation from the grip of the organization Daesh.

He added that the ninth band forces went strikes now to defenses front to organize Daesh in the southern axis to destroy them, explaining that in the eastern axis underway cleaning up neighborhoods, which has control of roadside and car bombs and evacuate the population to enable the forces of progress to liberate more neighborhoods operations.

For his part, stressed the fight against terrorism, a commander Lt. Gen. Abdul-Ghani al-Asadi troops to enter the city of Mosul, pointing out that it freed a number of neighborhoods .. He said that the "anti-terrorism forces entered today to the city of Mosul and freed allow Krcoli neighborhoods and inspired millions." 

Asadi said that "the terrorists throw from afar but the security forces continue to monitor progress toward the goals," he said in a statement quoted by the agency "Alsumaria News", explaining about the news of attack "Daesh area Kokjla that" these reports are baseless. "

The joint security forces and the Peshmerga and the continuing support of the international airline alliance and Iraqi military operations to regain control of Nineveh organize Daesh, so after the announcement of the zero hour by the general commander of the armed forces, Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi in 17 of the last month.

The organization Daesh leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi called on his followers to fight in the city. In an audio recording aired by "Furqan" Foundation of the organization on the Internet, al-Baghdadi said: "O people of Nineveh Aamh..ooaha Mujahideen private Beware of weakness for Jihad your enemy, and paid" .. he said, adding that "the price of being with in your land Bazkm a thousand times easier than the price of your withdrawal by Bzlkm ".

A spokesman for the international coalition led by Washington, has responded by saying that al-Baghdadi lose control of his fighters with the arrival of Iraqi troops to the outskirts of Mosul. Colonel John Dorian said he had not been validated Date but "obviously" they are trying to communicate with their fighters.

The organization has been lost during the last year a lot of areas occupied in the summer of 2014 and is considered the last major stronghold of Mosul in Iraq. Iraqi forces have received support from the international coalition led by the United States and Iranian advisers.

More than 21 thousand people have fled to areas controlled by the government since the start of military operations, while the organizing Daesh detained thousands of others to use them as human shields, according to the United Nations.

Cut the road between Mosul and tenderness

Hadi al-Ameri, commander of operations in the leadership of the popular crowd forces announced that the crowd forces managed to cut through the organization of the next Daesh supplies from Syria, west of Mosul.

Amery said a leader of the Badr Organization, in a televised statement I followed "Elaf" The liberation of Mosul operations going as planned and cracking down on terrorists is increasing day after day. He explained that the operations in the south-west of Mosul, led by the popular crowd resulted in the liberation of Tal Afar's main intersection and Mahlbah Baaj Tel Abth toward Mosul and spare Daesh supplies from Syria.

Tal Afar is located 55 kilometers west of Mosul on the road to be subject to Daesh areas in neighboring Syria.On his part, said Abu Mahdi Mohandes Field Commander of the popular crowd cut strategic road between Mosul and the Syrian tenderness stressing near Daesh cut the supply lines between tenderness and Tal Afar.

The engineer said that the popular crowd forces managed to cut a strategic road between Mosul and the Syrian and tenderness, asserting that "cracking down on Aldoaash after cutting this road." He added that the popular crowd forces currently working to cut the road between the Afar and tenderness.

The approximately 23 thousand gunman continued to rally popular in southern Mosul when Qayyarah base implementation armed operations against al Daesh.

It is noteworthy that the joint Iraqi forces and the support of the army aviation and the international coalition continues its day nineteenth consecutive restore Mosul process from the grip of the organization Daesh, and that after the announcement of the Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces Haider Abadi, the dawn of the seventeenth of this month, starting edit Nineveh process Mosul is the capital occupied by the organization since June 2014
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Iraqi troops roll into eastern Mosul

 

 

 

 

11/05/2016 Now - Agencies 11:06:15 AM

Command announced the joint Iraqi operations, Saturday, for the control of anti-terrorism device on several neighborhoods within the civilian Mosul in northern Iraq, from the eastern axis of the city.

According to sources, 'Sky News Arabia', Iraqi forces seized control of the neighborhoods of Jerusalem, green and scientists and dignity and brotherhood after fierce battles with Sunni Islamist al Daesh radical.

For its part, the federal police command announced that its forces had recaptured hand Hamam al-Alil, 20 km south of Mosul, and is the last bastion for the organization Daesh on the south side of the city.

Maj. Gen. Thamer al-Husseini, a commander in the Iraqi police, said the troops entered Salhiya neighborhood in Hamam al-Alil, and she secured the city from more than one direction, and predicted statement cleansing breeze Bath and the surrounding areas completely within hours.

Eyewitnesses confirmed 'roeters' The Daesh militants who retreated north of Mosul, forced thousands of civilians of the population in villages and cities such as fresh bath, to go walking with them as human shields to prevent air strikes.

The United Nations said, the militants they brought 1,600 civilians breeze rustled from swimming to Tal Afar, west of Mosul, on Tuesday, and took another 150 families from Tal Afar to the connector on the following day.

She said a spokeswoman for the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Ravenna Chamdasani, if Daesh ordered the population to hand over the boys over the age of nine years in an apparent bid to recruit children.

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IRAQ FORCES FACE TOUGH RESISTANCE Iraq, November 5, 2016 Extremist fighters unleashed a deluge of bombs and gunfire on Friday on Iraqi forces punching into the streets of Mosul for the first time, forcing some units into a partial pullback. Some armoured vehicles from the elite Counter-Terrorism Service (CTS) returned from the streets of Al-Karamah a few hours after moving in and encountering fierce resistance from the Daesh group, an AFP correspondent reported. “We weren’t expecting such resistance. They had blocked all the roads,” said one officer, as top brass considered whether or not to attempt a fresh foray. “There are large numbers of extremists... It was preferable to pull back and devise a new plan,” the CTS officer said, speaking on condition of anonymity. Some CTS forces remained inside the city however and there were at least five regiments involved in the operation launched on Friday, making it hard to gauge the extent of the pullback. After daybreak, bulldozers and tanks backed by air strikes had pushed into the streets of Mosul from the east for the first time since Iraqi forces launched a broad offensive to retake the city on Oct.17. The CTS’s “Mosul regiment,” which was the last to leave the city when the extremists overran it in June 2014, immediately faced “tough resistance”, commander Muntadhar Salem told reporters. The gunfire was almost uninterrupted for hours and reports from the front crackling into CTS radios said Daesh had set up barriers and laid bombs all along the streets. Air strikes by the US-led coalition had intensified over the past two days, despite the smoke from burning tyres set on fire by Daesh in a bid to provide cover. They ebbed when the push on the ground got under way however. The resistance came despite widespread reports in recent weeks that top Daesh commanders had left the eastern side of the city and crossed the Tigris river to regroup on its west bank. An estimated 3,000 to 5,000 Daesh fighters are scattered across the sprawling city, Iraq’s second largest, where a million-plus civilians are believed to be trapped. There has been an exodus of civilians from outlying villages this week but few managed to find a safe way out of the city itself. Umm Ali could not hold back her tears when she spoke of her constant fear the extremists would take her young sons. “They kept coming to our home. Sometimes they’d knock on the door at 10:00 pm,” she said. “They took our car, saying: ‘This is the land of the caliphate, it belongs to us’.” Civilians seeking refuge in Kurdish-controlled areas east of the city recounted tales of Daesh brutality. “We’re coming from the world of the dead back to the world of the living,” said Raed Ali, 40, who fled his home in the nearby village of Bazwaya. In a rare audio message released on Thursday, Daesh leader Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi urged his fighters to defend the city where he proclaimed the “caliphate” in June 2014. The public announcement he made from the pulpit of Mosul’s Great Mosque of Al Nuri heralded the most ambitious and brutal experiment in modern extremism, a period marked by mass murder, attempted genocide and slavery. But his “caliphate” has been shrinking steadily since mid-2015 and the loss of Mosul would leave Raqa, in Syria, as the group’s only major urban stronghold. Daesh has been increasingly pragmatic in its tactics this year, falling back in the face of superior force even in some of its emblematic bastions such as Fallujah in Iraq and Dabiq in Syria. However Baghdadi, in his first message of 2016, called on Daesh fighters still in Mosul to make a stand for Iraq’s second city. gulftoday   http://iraqdailyjournal.com/story-z14209042

 

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Iraqi Army Enters North of ISIS-Held City of Mosul

Sunday 6 November 2016

Iraqi Forces near Mosul

  

Alwaght- Iraqi forces advanced further into northern Mosul as the large-scale operation to liberate the city from ISIS has entered its 20^th day.

The Iraqi Army has entered the northern residential areas of the city as the offensive in the south has been going on for some days.

"Army forces have stormed al-Sada district, the first residential neighborhood in northern Mosul,” army officer Ahmed al-Jabouri of the Nineveh Operations Command told Turkish Anadolu news agency.

“Our forces are engaged in street battles with ISIS fighters” in the district, he said.

The units of Iraqi army continued with their major operation to liberate the northern city of Mosul from ISIS and made terrorists withdraw from eastern parts of the city.

Previously Iraqi forces had reached Mosul residential areas in the south and have managed to liberate six neighborhoods in the city.

Iraqi counter-terrorism forces recaptured the districts of Al-Malayin, Al-Samah, Al-Khazra, Kirkukli, Al-Quds and Al-Karama, Abdulamir Rashid Yarullah on Friday.

The forces managed to raise Iraqi national flags over government buildings in recaptured areas.

Late Thursday, Iraq’s Defense Ministry announced that, over the course of the last four days, 125 ISIS terrorists have been killed and 24 villages and areas in Nineveh province -- of which Mosul is the regional capital -- had been wrested from the terrorist group.

On October 17, the Iraqi army backed by Popular Mobilization Forces and Peshmerga forces launched a wide-ranging operation aimed at retaking ISIS last bastion in Iraq, Mosul fell to the terrorist group in mid-2014

[Wiljor]

Mosul Battle Rages as IS Bombings Elsewhere in Iraq Kill 20

 

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS (SUSANNAH GEORGE) - Nov 6, 2016, 9:00:55 AM

 

Mosul, Iraq (AP) -- Iraq's special forces worked Sunday to clear neighborhoods on the eastern edge of Islamic State-held Mosul as bombings launched by the extremist group elsewhere in the country killed at least 20 people.

The Mosul offensive has slowed in recent days as Iraqi forces have pushed into more densely populated areas, where they cannot rely as much on airstrikes and shelling because of the risk posed to civilians, who have been told to stay in their homes.

"There are a lot of civilians and we are trying to protect them," said Lt. Col. Muhanad al-Timimi. "This is one of the hardest battles that we've faced till now."

Some civilians are fleeing the combat zone, while IS militants are holding others back for use as human shields, making it harder for Iraqi commanders on the ground to get approval for requested U.S.-led coalition air strikes. Iraq's special forces are some of the country's best troops, but they still largely rely on air support to clear terrain.

Iraqi forces first entered the eastern edge of the city on Tuesday. On Friday, forces began pushing into Mosul proper, but so far have advanced just over a kilometer (mile) into the city.

On the southern front, Iraqi forces are still some 12 miles (20 kilometers) from the city center. The fighting is centered on the town of Hamam al-Alil, where Associated Press journalists could hear gunfire and saw attack helicopters firing on IS positions.

Kurdish peshmerga fighters launched mortar rounds and fired heavy artillery at the IS-held town of Bashiqa, about 8 miles (13 kilometers) northeast of Mosul. The town, which is believed to be largely empty except for IS militants, has been encircled by Kurdish forces.

The extremists captured Mosul and surrounding areas in 2014, and have had plenty of time to dig trenches, block off roads and mine approaches to the city.

"Daesh dug trenches that they filled with water and they have a lot of suicide attackers and car bombs," said al-Timimi, using the Arabic acronym for the IS group.

The extremists meanwhile struck far from the front lines with a series of bombings.

The deadliest attack took place in the city of Samarra, 60 miles (95 kilometers) north of Baghdad, which is home to a major Shiite shrine. Provincial spokesman Ali al-Hamdani said the attacker set off a bomb-packed ambulance in a parking lot near Shiite pilgrims before detonating his explosives vest.

The attack killed 11 people, including at least four Iranians, and wounded up to 100 other people.

Another suicide attacker rammed an explosives-laden car into a busy checkpoint outside the city of Tikrit, killing at least nine people. Al-Hamdani said five female students, a woman and three policemen were killed in the attack, while 25 others were wounded.

IS had also captured Tikrit during its lightning blitz across Iraq in the summer of 2014. Iraqi forces drove the militants from the city, around 80 miles (130 kilometers) north of Baghdad, in April 2015.

Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman, Bahram Ghasemi, condemned the two attacks, which he said had killed 21 people, including 10 Iranian pilgrims, the semi-official Mehr news agency reported. It was not immediately possible to reconcile the conflicting tolls, which are common in the chaotic aftermath of attacks.

In an online statement, IS claimed all three bombings and said the ambulance bomb was set off by a second suicide attacker. The AP could not verify the authenticity of the statement, which was posted on a militant website commonly used by the extremists.

In the capital, Baghdad, a series of smaller bombings killed at least 10 people and wounded 21 others, according to police and medical officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to brief reporters. No one immediately claimed the attacks, but they bore the hallmarks of IS.

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Associated Press writers Sinan Salaheddin and Murtada Faraj in Baghdad, Cristiana Mesquita near Bashiqa, Iraq, Balint Szlanko near Hamam al-Alil, Iraq, and Maamoun Youssef in Cairo contributed to this report.

 

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Aliqin..aln news: the elimination Daesh in Iraq needs years !!

Last updated: 6 November 2016 - 10:57

 BAGHDAD / News Network Iraq assured the American president of the World Alliance envoy against "Daesh" John Allen, on Saturday evening, that the goal of the international coalition the foundation is to restore the city of Mosul as soon as possible, noting that the fight against Daesh in Iraq will take a long time. Allen said in a conference news Saturday evening: " the goal of the international coalition the foundation is to restore the city of Mosul and the liberalization of its population, the fact that the organization Daesh using them as human shields and cover for fear of air raids , " stressing that " the fight against the organization in Iraq will take a long time, but we will spend it in the end." he added , that " the international coalition is able to fight Daesh in Iraq and Syria at the same time , " pointing out that " the coalition is working to destroy the infrastructure of Daesh and the targeting of leaders in both countries." He said Allen, that " the democratic forces of Syria will contribute to the besieged Daesh in the city of Raqqa ". 

 

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Our forces are preparing to storm the southern neighborhoods of Mosul

 

 

7/11/2016 1:23  Mosul / Sunrise Maher  BAGHDAD / morning  became a southern suburb of Mosul , affordable pieces that freed dozens of far - flung villages of northern Qayyarah down to the outskirts of Nineveh International Airport, to coincide with the completion of heroes of the popular crowd purge of hundreds of square kilometers and trapping Afar Airport within Gharba.utwasal forces axis thrust into revival of the left coast parallel with cleansing the liberated areas , including operations against the fleeing Aldoaash toward the right coast , which saw the killing of the so - called (and to Nineveh) in his home.   South axis  and while the commander of operations « are coming, Nineveh , » said Lt. Gen. Abdul Amir Aarallah, yesterday edit villages Alrezagah and Hawijah horse within the axis of the Zab River and raising the Iraqi flag above them, the federal police captain Raed Shakir Jawdat said, that his forces and army troops Almottaghvlh within the axis south of Mosul became just 4 kilometers from the southern edge of the city.  he said that these forces are nearing the completion of the complete liberalization pan parts of this axis , which is the largest compared to the eastern axis, as a length of 62 kilometers and stretches from the northern side of Qayyarah from passing through the district Shora and cross breeze bath , which was completed freed yesterday, making our units , a stone 's throw from Nineveh international Airport site southern residential neighborhoods of Mosul.    He said Jawdat said pieces Federal police gained considerable experience in dealing with Daesh gangs after a fight midst previous battles in addition to the good integration with other military factions and accurate intelligence, which enabled it to edit dozens of villages and sub - districts record time and the elimination of terrorist groups in those areas and edit dismantling the families of the families that withheld by those gangs, in addition to good conduct and concern for ensuring conservation of the lives of residents and deliver aid to them.  west axis  as things are going wonderfully well in the boycotted west axis, as it announced a lead in the popular crowd, that one of the factions of the crowd began on Sunday surrounded the district of Tall Afar Airport west of Mosul away from the district center 8 km. this  came after he passed the heroes of the crowd of hundreds of square kilometers record time defying the odds in this cutter vast space editors dozens of far - flung villages during the lead , taking care to protect its population and providing assistance to them, and continued to do so the first phase of western Mosul operations yesterday fully ended after the liberation of 1,500 square kilometers within a large and open space and the difficulty need to armored vehicles, which led to cutting the main supply terrorists lines Daesh present in Mosul.  eastern axis  and within the axis of eastern Mosul, said reporter alliance of national media our troops seized yesterday on the gentlemen Ayzh the whole region from the north to the coast of the city left, as quoted correspondent «morning» the officer in the anti - terror apparatus Major Ali Mohsen, as saying that the intruding forces blew up three wheels bomb and killed a number of terrorists , including seven leaders Bdaash were wearing explosive belts and show they're the nationalities of Tunisian and Egyptian and a Chechen, Turkish, and then forces were able to surround the headquarters , which was occupied by the former second Division Iraqi Army and the headquarters of the   old Canadian facility.  for his part, the commander of the second elite forces said device counter terrorism Maj .Gen. Maan al - Saadi, a reporter alliance National media: remnants Daesh suffered 400 dead and destroyed dozens of wheels bombs at the hands of our troops on the edit revive coast left east of Mosul battles with the killing of the so - called ( the military official of the province of Nineveh) Bdaash making the leaders of these gangs running away to the coast right.     central Mosul  and the effect of these victories impressive, right coast saw the conductor kill senior leaders of Daesh gangs that resorted as usual to the execution of its elements fleeing from the left side, since , according to a local source from within the city that an armed group attacked yesterday evening home of the so - called (and to Nineveh) terrorist ( Abu Mohammed al - Hayali), one of the most prominent leaders of the terrorist organization, and killed him with two members of his guards within the right coast ofcentral Mosul, indicating that Daesh gangs imposed strict measures around the attack site and published additional elements in search of the perpetrators. The source pointed out that this attack is the first of its kind targeting this terrorist. At the same time , said a statement of the cell media war, the so - called (body - war administrator) terrorist (Muhannad Hamed, nicknamed, Abu Aisha Albiloa) was killed with a group of foreign nationality aides airstrike in   Jarmjh area local Balmousel.almsdr returned to draw attention to the remnants Daesh live inside Mosul state of confusion and collapse and mass escape of its components to the right coast , following the lead of the security forces on the left coast and edit a lot of residential revive it , revealing that do those gangs to execute its leaders fleeing and elements of Kokjla area where executed yesterday , seven of them Nhra charges of cowardice and escape before our troops surging towards the center of the city of Mosul.

 

[Wiljor]

Iraq, November 6, 2016 

After Iraqi security forces eventually recapture Mosul, the Daesh group will be left with only Raqa in neighboring Syria as a bastion, and the extremists’ self-proclaimed “caliphate” will be largely gone.

The US-led coalition has been striking Daesh across both countries for more than two years, and has long held Raqa in its sights -- a Daesh defeat there would be a defining endpoint of the campaign. 

But Pentagon chief Ashton Carter surprised commanders last week when he declared the actual assault on Raqa could start “in the next few weeks,” after British Defense Minister Michael Fallon made a similar prediction.

Privately, many high-ranking Pentagon officials were caught off-guard, and expressed skepticism the Raqa push could start so soon, given the Gordian knot of unpredictability in the chaos of Syria.

Carter’s timeline is “a little more ahead of what I have been hearing so far,” one US defense official told reporters on condition of anonymity, choosing his words carefully.

Another US defense official said the military’s expectations for Raqa -- a city with a pre-war population of about 220,000 -- didn’t match Carter’s timeline. 

And a third military official said that while the assault could theoretically start in weeks, it may take “single-digit months,” pushing the possible timeline out to “nine months or less.”

That official added the assault may yet start before 2017, “but it could drag on further for other reasons we can’t control.”

“It’s up to” the local forces, he added. “We are ready if they are ready.”

Even before the start of a ground offensive, likely to be fought along similar lines to the one happening in Mosul, coalition planes must complete the “isolation,” “shaping” and “envelopment” of Raqa. This entails non-stop strikes on Daesh fighting positions and the slicing of supply lines into and out of the northern Syrian city.

Coalition spokesman Colonel John Dorrian said those operations had already partially succeeded, and had helped cut routes from Raqa to and from Europe.

“What we’re talking about is a higher level of isolation that greatly reduces the freedom of movement of Daesh to go into and come out of that city,” he said.

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http://iraqdailyjournal.com/story-z14215468

[new york kevin]

Thanks for the post Wiljor. Keep them coming.

IMHO, who cares about pursuing them into Syria ! I say kick them out of Iraq entirely, maybe 1 mile into Syrian territory to create a safe zone. Then pull back to the Iraqi border, and set up a impenetrable Militarized Zone. This way you can catch, what is left of ISISL, in a cross fire with the Russian/Syrian line and then just mow them down . Period. Should anyone advance toward Iraq again you shoot them in the Safe Zone. Do this until things stabilize in Syria.

[Wiljor]

8 hours ago, new york kevin said:

Thanks for the post Wiljor. Keep them coming.

IMHO, who cares about pursuing them into Syria ! I say kick them out of Iraq entirely, maybe 1 mile into Syrian territory to create a safe zone. Then pull back to the Iraqi border, and set up a impenetrable Militarized Zone. This way you can catch, what is left of ISISL, in a cross fire with the Russian/Syrian line and then just mow them down . Period. Should anyone advance toward Iraq again you shoot them in the Safe Zone. Do this until things stabilize in Syria.

[nannab]

Thank you Wiljor another one of our great news hounds ! 

[Wiljor]

2 hours ago, nannab said:

Thank you Wiljor another one of our great news hounds ! 

You are welcome nannab, honored to be part of DV and appreciate your kind words 

[yota691]

Our troops pursuing the terrorists in the tunnels under the Mosul

 

 

9/11/2016 0:00  Aso Amin Xuan and William Booth * / htooB mailliW  translation / Anis al - Saffar   {it} everywhere this Iraqi intelligence officer said ,waving his arm as if he clears the air from where he was standing, in the ancient Christian village, even the horizon. The Iraqi captain 's mission is to search for tunnels dug by terrorists Daesh {}. Ring the ground with his foot and completed: {here .. We have found the one .. Then on three .. It is now six. Right here. In that place there is more and more}. Villages that restored the Kurdish Peshmerga forces and the Iraqi army from the grip of «Daesh» During the past three weeks were punctuated by spending as permeate Alnkharab beehive, many of them mg explosives.  Commanders in the Iraqi forces say that the past three days have seen the toughest battles during the attack the city of Mosul, it has increased things worse those heavy spending that was allowing terrorists «Daesh» to appear as if out of nowhere to strike and then pull back to the hidden Moadahm.  Iraqi army spokesman Brigadier General Yahya Messenger says: «It was a battle of the utmost violence, particularly in on Friday and Saturday with the incursion by troops deeper inside the city , which remained in the hands of «Daesh» for two years. It is a battle from house to house. »  While Iraqi special forces engaged in battles to wrest the eastern neighborhoods of Mosul leaders say the tunnels scattered all over the place, in addition to the holes that pass through the walls of buildings, allow terrorists« Daesh »hiding that move quickly to ambush the advancing force and then run away and hide.  says the commander of one of the armored units , recalling that he was driving his tank Brams on the eastern side of Mosul when he saw a dozen enemy elements were running in the street in front of his cannon, and did not Albthoa that disappeared into the ground.  said Col. Falah al - Obeidi of the Iraqi counter - terrorist forces: « as if we are fighting two wars in two cities. Here we have the streets of the war, and there we have the underground city where hiding. »He continues:« it is difficult now to say that the area has been completely liberated, although our control on the face of the earth may be able Aldoaash go back and emerge from the underground like rats. »  Says al - Obeidi and other leaders that they were aware that fighting among civilians and human shields in Mosul will be difficult, but spending the complexity of the situation and worsen. »officers describe the battlefield as being closer to the ball , including a flat surface because the threat is coming to you from the sides and from above and below.Journalists companions Iraqi special forces in their reports say the terrorists «Daesh» show from inside the tunnels after the area has been secured to shoot at the troops.  No one number of spending knows, because «Daesh» fighters dug a network of tunnels and very wide in Fallujah, recaptured by troops Iraq in June.  this tactic did not innovations of «Daesh», because the tunnels were used in wars for thousands of years, a tactic that has a special guerrilla advantages asymmetric with regular forces.  here , too, in the town of Krimlah, I discovered elements of the Christian resistance spending tight engraved in the ground was the terrorists «Daesh» they use to hide from the monitor exploration and rocket - aircraft artillery and air strikes by US - led forces . I found spending also sits on a hill above the historic archaeological site of an ancient Assyrian city, also seized «Daesh» the Monastery of Santa Barbara , and there are also dug a perforated floor of the church. This village represents the battle between Alexander the Great and the Persian king Dara in 331 BC site.  Some tunnels stretching for hundreds of meters, and the dirt extracted them Lumpy solid flawless stone crusher. Corridors lit incandescent light bulbs, and at one spending in the village of vertical found disingenuous to sleep under the ground littered with mattresses, blankets, and some rooms have covered the walls with paper colored.  Iraqi forces also found weapons caches underground small kitchens and warehouses food and rooms stacked with explosives. On the land of one spending there was onion sparse and eggplant and sugar poured, and there were dishes did not wash an article where the remnants of beans stiff.  To hide «Daesh» effects of drilling from the eyes of the march exploration planes and satellites were usually resort to hide the dust of the pits. In the near entrances to tunnels houses filled with earth from its territory rooms and even I found the ceiling.  Longest tunnel has been discovered so far about its extension of ten kilometers and is located on the outskirts of Mosul, and Iraqi leaders say, has been carried out by terrorists «Daesh» and may have been used Jabra civilians in transfer soil. the  Iraqis say diggers have used tunnels dug in the devices originally designed to work mining the construction of mines and oil wells excavated. One of the biggest rigs this found a boat on the half - tracked mechanism in the tunnel outside the town of «new mufti» located on the outskirts of  Mosul.  Says the Iraqi intelligence officer, who works within the band ninth in the Iraqi army armored , who asked not to be named because of his accuracy, his men It can not detect all the entrances and exits of the tunnels because of car bombs and explosives.So turn whenever they found a suspicious hole to throw a grenade in the dark and then Alhakunha with burning tires. Although this can not be assured that the elements of«Daesh» will not return to Mbaghtthm.            * For the Washington Post

[yota691]

Political progress bless our troops in Mosul

 

 

9/11/2016 0:00  BAGHDAD / Shaima Rashid   welcomed a number of parliamentarians, the great and the rapid progress achieved by the security forces within the operations « are coming, Nineveh» for the Liberation of Lands Mosul from gangs «Daesh» terror, describing those victories as a source of pride for all Iraqis, and by example, and clear evidence of the unity and cohesion of the Iraqi people. A spokesman for anti - terrorism device morning Nomani had said in a statement singled out by the «morning» enable the security forces of liberation , about 60 percent of the territory of the province of Nineveh , from the control of the organization «Daesh» terrorist. A matter of time  Member of Parliament Saleh Hasnawi counting the liberalization of Nineveh province , the issue is settled, it is only a matter of time until they are announced, adding that the most important point now is the possibility of reaching a political agreement after the declaration of liberation and return of displaced persons. Said Hasnawi told «morning»: The « the issue of liberalization of Mosul is the issue easier today .. but we need to make efforts in the coming period, especially for the post - editing operations is completed, especially the issue of societal reconciliation with the legacy of gangs« Daesh »terror of negative effects in the community Musli ».  He added that Iraqis today are proud of the security their forces and Ptlahmanm which proved to everyone they are in a row to fight one enemy represented gangs« Daesh »terrorist.  humanitarian effort  as Park MP Razak mheibes, the Iraqis the big victories of the security forces in the battle to liberate Mosul. praising the common position of all shades of the Iraqi people and the political forces during the battle.  He called mheibes by saying «morning» to complete all the preparations to receive the displaced, through the completion of all it 's accessories and the equivalent of the preparations leading up to the start of the edits and military effort », noting that the effort humanitarian desired supplied to people displaced by the fighting must be commensurate with the expected numbers they have been displaced by the fighting there ».  He explained that the post - liberation phase needs to efforts by the international community and the Iraqi government, and its reconstruction and the provision of services and re - displaced to areas of residence, and initiate social reconciliation between Mosul themselves sons because of the serious consequences left by the terrorist organization.  He »that these steps part of which should be equal to the military operations and other division post - liberation».  invitations to confront the «partition»  for its part, indicated MP Zainab al - Tai said editing operations are ongoing and on All sectors, noting that the victories achieved shortly is snowed in the hearts of Iraqis, calling not to pay heed to the calls of the division of the province after its liberation , because it would then be sought after easy for all countries.  the Tai »Sabah»: the «forces involved in the liberation of Nineveh operations , both military forces or the popular crowd or the Peshmerga has made great efforts for the liberation of the country 's land in an epic picture of stunned by the enemies before friends », pointing at the same time to the existence of a state of fear post - defeating gangs» Daesh ».utabat that« Mosul file is very sensitive .. and it needs to be concerted efforts, especially that there are politicians who tries to catch the water murky and there are ambitions in Mosul province from foreign countries », claim not to give in to the calls of the division, and leave it to the people of the province to decide their fate.

[yota691]

Masum edit Mosul by the end of 2016 and we plan to arrest al-Baghdadi does not kill him

History of edits:: 11/09/2016 22:23 • 136 visits readable

[Oan- Baghdad] 
he President Fuad Masum was certain that the Iraqi armed forces will liberate the city of Mosul from terrorist gangs Daesh before the end of the year 2016.

He was infallible in an exclusive interview with Kyodo conducted in Baghdad yesterday and transfer of the Information Office of the Presidency said in a statement received by all of Iraq [where] a copy of it, the belief that the Iraqi armed forces "will be able within the next two months of eliminating all of Daesh military presence . " praising the courage of the Iraqi forces and the high level of morale and feet. " 
as President Masum said that gangs Daesh can not survive long in tenderness if they lose Mosul. 
as for the fate of the so - called leader Daesh known as Abu Bakr al - Baghdadi, President infallible stressed that Iraq" is not planning to kill the offender Baghdadi but to arrest him and send it to a fair trial before the eyes of the world and leave justice to issue a fair verdict against him for all the crimes associated with it or Beshravh ,"stressing that" the judiciary is the one who will decide the fate of anyone who commits a crime or an act Arhbaa and that the main objective is to strengthen the rule of law has always been . " 
President infallible revealed that Iraq is "organized a minute searches for Daesh including al - Baghdadi , the Iraqi - Syrian border areas , the leaders , " pointing to "very hope can arrest him because we want to send it to justice ,just as we sent Saddam Hussein , " referring to what he suffered Prime the former regime in 2003 , the trial ended with him to death on charges of committing war crimes against humanity. 
as President infallible pointed out that " the investigation of al - Baghdadi would reveal information and many secrets belonging to terrorist groups", stressing that the intensification of the Iraqi forces attacks on areas in Mosul pay a lot of elements terrorist to escape from the fighting fronts with useful intelligence about "for internal clashes among them." 
He focused the President "on the need to develop a new strategy in cooperation with the regional countries and the neighboring countries of the world to combat the sleeper terrorist cells after the completion of the liberalization of Mosul , " he said , "not to exclude the some forgotten cell terrorist activity later , despite the strong certainty that the severe defeat will inflict gangs Daesh in the battle to liberate Mosul , "calling on countries in the region and the United States and Europe to support a comprehensive plan to eliminate the terrorist networks in the world. 
and to hold the referendum in the Kurdistan region to decide their own destiny, the president explained Masum " the referendum does not mean to declare independence immediately, because the Declaration of independence need an understanding and an agreement with Iraq". 
concerning the presence of Turkish troops in Bashiqa, President infallible stressed that the Turkish troops in Ba'shiqah "entered without the prior consent of the Iraqi government , which is the subject of condemnation , " as it 's "combined a political intervention of one crying in the " internal affairs of Iraq, stressing Iraq 's desire to establish relations "solid and a good strategy , " with Turkey , "but not on our sovereignty account." 
as pointed out the existence of " the interests of the mission between Iraq and Turkey, agreements on oil, water, trade pipes nearing $ 20 billion before the recent decline due to the tension, he considered the deployment of Turkish troops near Mosul in violation of international norms and laws. 
the president of the republic "Turkey is a neighboring country and important in the region and we did have a respect and sensitive except its stability and prosperity , " adding that "Iraq was among the first countries in the world that stood out against the movement coup last in Turkey , where "we announced support for the constitutional legitimacy immediately because we are against military coups in principle, it is the same this sense we are concerned about the arrest of MPs important political figures and incarcerations without legal context because it is a serious signal threaten the democracy that we hope preserved and resort to dialogue and understanding to solve urgent problems. " 
on the Iraqi Japanese relations , the President stressed that it solid relationships without sensitivities and that Iraq is looking forward to Japan 's participation in the development of various economic sectors of production and service.

[Wiljor]

Iraq, November 10, 2016 

U.S. and coalition military forces continued to attack Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant terrorists in Iraq and Syria on Monday, Combined Joint Task Force Operation Inherent Resolve officials reported yesterday.

Officials reported details of the latest strikes, noting that assessments of results are based on initial reports.

 

Strikes in Syria

Attack, bomber, fighter and remotely piloted aircraft conducted 17 strikes in Syria:

• Near Ayn Isa, 15 strikes engaged seven ISIL tactical units, destroyed five fighting positions, three vehicles, two bridges and an artillery system and damaged three supply routes.
• Near Mara, a strike engaged an ISIL tactical unit and destroyed a vehicle bomb.
• Near Palmyra, a strike engaged two ISIL tactical units, destroyed a vehicle and damaged a fighting position.

 

Strikes in Iraq

Attack, fighter, remotely piloted and rotary-wing aircraft and rocket artillery conducted 10 strikes in Iraq, coordinated with and in support of Iraq’s government:

• Near Beiji, a strike destroyed an ISIL rocket rail, a generator and a bulldozer.
• Near Mosul, five strikes engaged five ISIL tactical units and a staging area; destroyed six fighting positions, six mortar systems, four vehicle bombs, two vehicles, two rocket systems, two ISIL-held buildings and a command and control node; suppressed a heavy machine gun, a sniper position and a rocket system; damaged an ISIL vehicle; and degraded three tunnels.
• Near Rawah, a strike engaged an ISIL tactical unit and destroyed an ISIL-held building.
• Near Sinjar, a strike engaged an ISIL weapons production facility.
• Near Taji, a strike engaged an ISIL tactical unit.
• Near Tal Afar, a strike engaged an ISIL vehicle bomb factory.

Task force officials define a strike as one or more kinetic events that occur in roughly the same geographic location to produce a single, sometimes cumulative, effect. Therefore, officials explained, a single aircraft delivering a single weapon against a lone ISIL vehicle is one strike, but so is multiple aircraft delivering dozens of weapons against buildings, vehicles and weapon systems in a compound, for example, having the cumulative effect of making those targets harder or impossible for ISIL to use. Accordingly, officials said, they do not report the number or type of aircraft employed in a strike, the number of munitions dropped in each strike, or the number of individual munition impact points against a target. Ground-based artillery fired in counterfire or in fire support to maneuver roles is not classified as a strike.

 

Part of Operation Inherent Resolve

The strikes were conducted as part of Operation Inherent Resolve, the operation to eliminate the ISIL terrorist group and the threat they pose to Iraq, Syria, and the wider international community. The destruction of ISIL targets in Syria and Iraq further limits the terrorist group’s ability to project terror and conduct operations, officials said.

Coalition nations that have conducted strikes in Iraq include the United States, Australia, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Jordan, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. Coalition nations that have conducted strikes in Syria include the United States, Australia, Bahrain, Canada, France, Jordan, the Netherlands, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates and the United Kingdom.

 

iraq-businessnews

 

http://iraqdailyjournal.com/story-z14248023

[yota691]

Interior announces the opening of six police stations and 10 headquarters for emergency regiments liberated areas in Mosul

Sunday 13-11-2016 | 9:26:46

 

 

 

 

And k / d p

Twilight News / spokesman for the Interior Ministry Brigadier General Saad Maan said on Sunday opened six police stations and the headquarters of the 10 battalions of emergency in the areas liberated from the grip of the organization Daesh within the city of Mosul.

Brigadier Maan in a press statement, said he was inaugurated six police stations with subdivisions in areas Qayyarah, and Haj Ali, the center of Qayyarah, the Hamam al-Alil, and in the bathroom facing up center,] advice, and Hamdania, and Bartila.

He added that the opening of the headquarters of the 10 regiments of emergency chock forces liberated them to allow the second district, inspired by the Imam, which is inspired by the Holy porte-General of the street and in Bartella also add to the opening of many of the civil defense centers in the liberated areas.

[MyLadiesDaddy]

10 minutes ago, yota691 said:

Interior announces the opening of six police stations and 10 headquarters for emergency regiments liberated areas in Mosul

Sunday 13-11-2016 | 9:26:46

 

 

 

 

And k / d p

Twilight News / spokesman for the Interior Ministry Brigadier General Saad Maan said on Sunday opened six police stations and the headquarters of the 10 battalions of emergency in the areas liberated from the grip of the organization Daesh within the city of Mosul.

Brigadier Maan in a press statement, said he was inaugurated six police stations with subdivisions in areas Qayyarah, and Haj Ali, the center of Qayyarah, the Hamam al-Alil, and in the bathroom facing up center,] advice, and Hamdania, and Bartila.

He added that the opening of the headquarters of the 10 regiments of emergency chock forces liberated them to allow the second district, inspired by the Imam, which is inspired by the Holy porte-General of the street and in Bartella also add to the opening of many of the civil defense centers in the liberated areas.

Thank you Master Yota, this is good news. 

[chinadawg]

STABILITY !!!!!!!!!! r darn it.