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Reinforcements deployed at the borders of Diyala and Saladin

2022-01-11

[SHAFAQ] The Iraqi military has deployed reinforcements in the outskirts of al-Azim sub-district near the borders separating the governorates of Diyala and Saladin, the administrator of al-Azim, Abdul-Jabbar Ahmed al-Obaidi, said on Monday. Al-Obaidi told Shafaq News Agency, "a force from the army's first division (second brigade-second regiment) reinforced its units and intensified its patrols near the village of Abu Bakr, adjacent to Saladin, to halt an infiltration or night attack attempts." "Nidaa Diyala (Call of Diyala) and al-Hashd al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilization Forces-PMF) were redeployed in al-Azim alongside the army forces," he added. The local official said that ISIS groups are not likely to overcome the defenses between al-Azim and Saladin borders. "All the attacks do not amount to security breaches or live up to the aspirations of the terrorist organization. Their tactics are orthodox and exposed and fall far short of threatening." Security authorities failed to clear the ISIS cells from al-Azim despite dozens of security operations. Observers believe that the sub-district located at the border with Saladin is infested with undiscovered fortified ISIS sites.

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The Beatings Will Continue: Iraqi Edition

2017-07-25

Mass Grave found in Mosul Mosul (IraqiNews.com) A mass grave containing relics of sixty persons, most of whom were for security personnel, was found in a liberated region in the western side of Mosul city, BasNews reported on Monday. “Security personnel found a mass grave of Islamic State victims including relics of sixty persons, forty-four of whom were security agents of Nineveh police,” Cap. Ahmed al-Obaidi said. “There were signs of torture on the bodies, which seemed to have been shot in the heads,” Obaidi said adding that the grave was found in a land at al-Midan region in the Old City, while security troops were combing the area. Several mass graves were found in areas that were controlled by Islamic State since the Iraqi government, backed by a U.S.-led military coalition, launched a major security offensive in October 2016 to recapture the city of Mosul, Islamic State’s largest stronghold in Iraq. ISIS doctor executed in Mosul Tal Afar (IraqiNews.com) A prominent Islamic State doctor was executed under mysterious circumstances, while all his family members were arrested, a local source from Nineveh province was quoted saying on Monday. “The group announced through its media arm the execution of abu Youssef al-Masry, a prominent doctor, who came from Syria two years ago along with his family to Tal Afar town, west of Mosul, where he settled and founded centers for treating IS injured members,” an anonymous source told AlSumaria News. Al-Masry, according to the source, “disappeared a week ago under mysterious circumstances before the group’s news agency annnounced his execution without providing further details.” “The group ran into Masry’s house and arrested all of his family members and transferred them to unknown destination,” the source added indicating growing internal executions among the group members over the past few weeks, which shows the confusion among the militants in the town. On Sunday, news reports said the group carried out emergency evacuations over the night at many of its main headquarters in the town over growing doubts on the people’s cooperation with security services. Other reports indicated huge explosion that occurred at a field clinic, where IS injured militants are treated in the town, which urged the group to block the main roads. Tal Afar is one of the important strongholds still held by IS in Nineveh since August 2014.

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Iraq

More Mosul Moslem Mayhem

2017-07-20

Iraqi forces capture Qayyara Mosul (IraqiNews.com) Iraqi forces on Wednesday took over a village in Mosul which was re-invaded by Islamic State militants just before the government declared victory over the group in the city. Shafaq News website quoted a security source regained control over Imam Gharbi, a village in Qayyara, on the borders with Salahuddin province. Militants stormed the village two weeks ago and killed a number of pro-government paramilitary troopers and two journalists. Iraqi joint troops invaded the village last Friday. Also in Mosul, Iraqi police arrested four women members of the Islamic State hiding in the middle of refugees in the eastern side of the city. BasNews quoted Cap. Ahmed al-Obaidi saying that the four women served with the group’s vigilantism squads. They were arrested based on an intelligence tip at a house in al-Masaref neighborhood, he added. Since it took over a third of Iraq and Syria in 2014 to establish a self-styled “caliphate”, Islamic State drafted male and female vigilantes to observe the implementation of its extreme religious code of conduct. Harsh punishments, sometimes mounting to death, were imposed on violators. Iraqi government forces took over eastern Mosul late January and concluded its campaign to retake the whole city earlier this month by taking over the western side. Iraqi security authorities occasionally said they arrested IS-linked individuals hiding among refugees.

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Iraqi troops retake first district to have fallen to IS in Mosul

2017-05-15

[Iraq News] Iraqi government forces recaptured Sunday the first district to have fallen in Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... ’s grip in western djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... , setting 80 families free from there as operations near recapturing the group’s last strongholds in the region, a security source was quoted saying. BasNews quoted Iraqi army Major Ali Mohsen saying forces took over the 17 Tamuz (July 17th), the very first neighborhood of Mosul to have fallen in IS grip in June 2014. Shafaaq News website quoted a security source saying that Iraqi forces managed to free 80 families from the northern area of that neighborhood. Mohsen told BasNews that the forces also took over the 30 Tamuz district and were in control over 60 percent of al-Refaie. He said troops were preparing to invade al-Najjar district and the Mosul Hotel. BasNews quoted Ahmed al-Obaidi, a Federal Police Captain, said IS Death Eaters on Sunday rubbed out 16 Iraqi women who were trying to flee al-Rifaie, adding that 30 other families in the same district.

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Islamic State kill 64 civilians, including children, fleeing western Mosul

2017-05-15

[Iraq News] Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... forces of Evil killed 64 civilians, including women and kiddies, while trying to flee battles between the group and Iraqi security forces in western djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... to the eastern side, a human rights ...not to be confused with individual rights, mind you... monitor said. The Iraqi Observatory for Human Rights said the civilians were trying to cross the Tigris River, which bisects the city, on Thursday morning to the eastern side which Iraqi forces took over in January, but were rubbed out by IS snipers. Some others were captured by the Death Eaters, according to the organization, which quoted some survivors who made it to the Sallamiya district in the east. They said more than 40 families were trying to cross the river, but 64 dead bodies were washed ashore. The observatory quoted a security source in Sallamiya that the corpses bore signs of gunshots, and that he was predicting more dead bodies to resurface. Earlier on Sunday, BasNews quoted Ahmed al-Obaidi, a Federal Police Captain, saying that IS forces of Evil had rubbed out 16 Iraqi women who were trying to flee al-Rifaie district in western Mosul, adding that 30 other families in the same district.

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40 killed as army, Daesh clash in Iraq's Anbar province

2015-07-21

[EN.ZAMANALWSL.NET] At least 25 Daesh faceless myrmidons and 15 Iraqi security personnel were killed Sunday in separate incidents across Iraq's western Anbar province, according to Iraqi army and police sources. Lieutenant-Colonel Ahmed al-Obaidi of the Iraqi army told Anadolu Agency that four Daesh faceless myrmidons -- including a prominent group leader and three fighters -- had been killed by a "secret faction of armed rustics" in Anbar's Kubaysah sub-district. Iraqi army Colonel Ahmed al-Delimi, for his part, told Anadolu Agency that U.S.-led coalition warplanes had struck Daesh positions on the outskirts of Fallujah city and the Al-Saqallawiyah sub-district, leaving 21 faceless myrmidons dead and two armored vehicles destroyed. A police source in Anbar, meanwhile, told Anadolu Agency that 15 security personnel had been killed when their convoy struck an improvised bomb planted by the holy warrior group in the Al-Tash area south of Ramadi city. Although Daesh recently lost several parts of Iraq's Diyala, Ninawah and Saladin provinces, the group remains in control of most of Anbar, including quiet provincial capital Ramadi.

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Suicide bomber in wheelchair kills two in Iraq

2011-06-27

Today's dispatch from the depths of depravity... [Dawn] A jacket wallah in a wheelchair attacked a cop shoppe north of Storied Baghdad ...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate... on Sunday, killing two people and wounding 17, nine of them coppers, officials said. "A suicide bomber detonated his explosives vest at the entrance to a cop shoppe, killing two civilians and wounding 17 people, including nine coppers in Tarmiyah," a town north of Storied Baghdad, an interior ministry official said. A defence ministry official confirmed the report. "The suicide bomber came up to the entrance in a wheelchair," said Colonel Tawfiq Ahmed al-Jenabi, chief of the town's police, who added he did not know if the attacker was genuinely handicapped. Meanwhile, ...back at the Hubba Hubba Club, Nunzio had his hands full of angry bleached blonde... two people were maimed by an improvised bomb that went kaboom! next to a convoy transporting Mohammed Ahmed al-Obaidi, mayor of the town of Al-Riyadh in the restive northern province of Kirkuk. Obaidi, who beat feet unhurt and spoke to AFP after the attack, lost a foot in a similar bombing in June last year. Twenty-four people were killed on Thursday in three separate attacks in Storied Baghdad, including 21 in a triple bombing at a crowded market, and an American contractor working for USAID whose convoy was hit by an improvised bomb.

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Baghdad blasts casualties up to 234

2010-04-24

BAGDHAD / Aswat al-Iraq: Casualties from Friday's earlier five blasts that ripped through Baghdad rose to 54 deaths and 180 others wounded, a security source said on Friday. “The blasts that targeted Shiite mosques left 54 people killed and 180 others wounded. The death toll in the eastern Baghdad district of Sadr City alone reached 39 while the wounded 56,' the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency. “Blasts in al-Amin area left eight killed and 23 wounded,' the source added. Baghdad had been hit by a series of attacks with car bombs and improvised explosive devices on Friday. The bombing attacks targeted four Shiite mosques and an outdoor souk (market) in different areas of the violence-swept capital city. The blasts come only four days after Al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) network top leaders Abu Ayub al-Masri and Abu Omar al-Baghdadi as well as other key members of the armed group were killed in a security operation in the area of al-Tharthar, in the predominantly Sunni province of al-Anbar. They also came in the heels of hectic security activity targeting AQI leaders in the provinces of Baghdad, Ninewa, Diala, al-Anbar and Kirkuk. The operations resulted in capturing or killing a number of AQI operatives, including Ahmed al-Obaidi, alias Abu Suhayb, the group's military commander for the provinces of Ninewa, Salah al-Din and Kirkuk, who was killed in Mosul.

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Iraq announces killing of another senior al-Qaida leader

2010-04-20

Iraq announced Tuesday the killing of another senior leader of al-Qaida group in the country, an official television reported. "Iraqi security forces killed the terrorist Ahmed al-Obaidi, also known as Abu Suhaib, the military leader for Qaida terrorist organization in the provinces of Nineveh, Kirkuk and Salahudin," the state-run television of Iraqia, quoted Mohammed al-Askari media advisor of the Iraqi Defence Ministry as saying. Intelligence reports indicated that Obaidi moved from the city of Ramadi in Iraq's western province of Anbar to the northern province of Nineveh, where a joint U.S. and Iraqi force killed him in an early morning operation, Askari said. The fresh announcement came a day after Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki and the U.S. military announced the killing of two top Qaida leaders in a nighttime rocket attack on a safe house near the city of Tikrit, the capital of Salahudin province. The two top al-Qaida leaders were Abu Omer al-Baghdadi and Abu Ayyub al-Musri, who are the most wanted by U.S. and Iraqi forces. Local analysts believe the latest killing announcements of al- Qaida top leaders can be seen as victories for the country's security forces, who were blamed for failing to protect civilians against terrorists.

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