Iraq's war against IS terrorism | Updates and Discussions

[Al-Kurdi]

Meanwhile Dutch news reports Kurds in N Iraq demolished an Arab city named Barzan as 'revenge',
'Koerden doden IS-krijgsgevangenen en verwoesten stadje' | NU - Het laatste nieuws het eerst op NU.nl

I told you quit posting Rudaw & BasTrashnews but you keep on going, you don't see me posting Iraqi news either even though they're not spreading BS in English.

Who are u to tell me anything? Rudaw is well trustworthy and I will continue to post news from there whenever I see fit.

Belive me, the Sunni tribes in north are switching sides and they would rather be under Peshmerga defence than Shia. Sadly it's in the nature of Kurds to be soft, pisses me of seeing how they give water and food to those rapists. Shammar is now supporting Peshmerga in Rabia, the tribe leader was geared up and everything with the Pesh and said that they were going to send many tribe members. The ones that know they worked with IS are the ones who are fleeing when the Kurdish Army with airstrikes are retaking villages. The traitor villages are empty, they fled with IS. So no civils gets killed in the villages. It's just empty houses. Must have some punishment.

Go ahead, post from Iraqi sources, it's a free forum.

 

[Alienoz_TR]

Shammar is now supporting Peshmerga in Rabia, the tribe leader was geared up and everything with the Pesh and said that they were going to send many tribe members.

Shammar supports YPG because their rival clan Sharabia supports IS. Not because they are in love with Kurds. If IS wins, they will be six feet under by Sharabia's hand.

 

[Irfan Baloch]

and what happened next ?

I am sure the tank survived and if its occupants were worthy tankers then they would have finished off the ambushers

 

[Al-Kurdi]

Shammar supports YPG because their rival clan Sharabia supports IS. Not because they are in love with Kurds. If IS wins, they will be six feet under by Sharabia's hand.

I am talking about the oens on the iraqi side. They were indifferent at the begining but switched. nothin to do with love to Kurds. Just perhaps they are safer option than revengeful Shias.

 

[Alienoz_TR]

California Marine is first soldier to die in Iraq on U.S. mission against Islamic State

The Pentagon on Friday reported the first death of a U.S. soldier in Iraq in its new mission to combat Islamic State militants who have seized large areas of Iraq and Syria.

Marine Lance Corporal Sean Neal, a 19-year-old old from California, died in Baghdad on Thursday in what a Pentagon statement described as a non-combat incident. Further details about how Neal died were not immediately available.

Earlier this month, a U.S. Marine was deemed lost at sea after he fell from an aircraft into the Arabian Gulf.

The Pentagon said Neal’s death was the first U.S. casualty in Iraq since the Obama administration announced its ‘Inherent Resolve’ mission, which now includes air strikes against the extremist group in both Iraq and Syria, and a growing number of U.S. military personnel on the ground in Iraq.

The Iraq casualty comes as the Obama administration seeks to ensure the United States is not drawn into more of the costly, messy ground wars that characterized the decade after the 9/11 attacks.

More than 4,000 U.S. soldiers died in Iraq following the U.S.-led invasion in 2003.

President Barack Obama, who withdrew U.S. troops from Iraq in 2011 , has vowed that U.S. forces will not return to combat there.

But his administration is slowly expanding its involvement in Iraq and neighboring Syria in an effort to defeat the militant group, which threatens not only the Iraqi government but has promised to strike the West. American soldiers have set up joint headquarters in Baghdad and Irbil, the capital of Iraq’s northern Kurdish region, as they advise Iraqi forces and support air strikes on Islamic State targets.

California Marine is first soldier to die in Iraq on U.S. mission against Islamic State - The Washington Post

 

[Alienoz_TR]

ISIS kills eight Iraq soldiers in clashes south of Baghdad | News , Middle East | THE DAILY STAR
HILLA, Iraq: Eight Iraqi soldiers were killed in fighting with jihadists south of Baghdad as the army battled to secure the route used by hundreds of thousands of Shiite pilgrims, officers said Saturday.

Pilgrims taking part in Ashoura commemorations, which mark the death of Imam Hussein, one of the most revered figures in Shiite Islam, are often targeted with bombings during the annual rituals, which take place this month.

But this year's march to the shrine city of Karbala is set to be more dangerous than most, with militants from ISIS, which has overrun large areas of the country, holding territory along the way.

The attack by security forces on ISIS militants in the Jurf al-Sakhr area began Friday, an army captain said.

Eight soldiers were killed in the fighting, the captain and an army major said.

The officers said dozens of militants were also killed, but Iraqi officials frequently announce high death tolls for jihadists that are not possible to independently verify.

"Securing Jurf al-Sakhr is securing Karbala and the south completely, as the gateway to the south begins from Jurf al-Sakhr," Karbala Governor Aqil al-Turaihi told journalists during a visit to the area.

Securing Jurf al-Sakhr would also better position Iraqi forces to strike at militants in nearbyAnbar province, where they have suffered a string of setbacks, prompting warnings that the entire province could fall.

ISIS kills eight Iraq soldiers in clashes south of Baghdad | News , Middle East | THE DAILY STAR

Jurf Al-Sakhr, Iraq.

 

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In the offensive security forces infiltrated ISIS in Jurf al Sakhar making them believe they're ISIS reinforcements which resulted in the capture and death of many ISIS, whether the city has been liberated is unknown to me.

From another user

yaqub Saad Hamad, the military commander of Daash organization, did not expect that officers from the Iraqi Interior Ministry managed to penetrate the organization, to the extent that they are standing directly behind him while he was in liaison with the leadership, on the surface (satih) of one of the houses in the area of jurf al sakhr.

the Zero hour was carried out in the middle of the night on Thursday, when a force arrived classified as "suicide" belonging to the organization, "Daash" to one of the houses protected in orchards located between the Jurf al sakhr and Amiriyat al-Fallujah, this force was going to be used to repel the attack, on Iraqi forces to cleanse the north of Babil, south of Baghdad.

In the meantime, the y3qub Hamad the military commander of the southern state of Baghdad, was contacting the upper leadership of the organization, to assure them of the arrival of "the mujahideen brothers" as he described, and that he would start the attack against Iraqi forces immediately.

However, after the end of the conversation, he heard the commander of the group "suicide" that arrived minutes before, telling him, "I'am the commander of isof.

The story of the arrest and professional operation didnt end here, two hours later isof launched another attack and captured all the elements of the organization deployed in the region, led an attack that killed twenty militants and the arrest of four senior princes.

isis media have spent a difficult night as they tried to respond to the attack qualitative where activists within the organization and its networks of media used hashtags cross social media sites on Friday morning, stating that the captain of the isof "Colonel Mohammed" had been killed, although the name is not accurate, and that the military commander of the mandate of the Baghdad South, "ya3qub Hassan Hamad" has also been killed, confirming that the organization has already lost all their contacts and elements in this battle, without them knowing.

minister of defence (al ghabban) and hadi al amari with other prominent figure such as the governor of karbala (aqeel al turayhi) and the governor of babil (dalu <im not sure how to spell his name) and many others arrived with the volunteers that also took part days/weeks/months to libraste it completely. Jurf al sakhr was librated today morning after liberating it, the army and co managed to also liberate a couple of strategic area (all the areas that they librated was on tv on many channels)

captured ISIS

tos-1 used

 

[Azizam]

Lion is surprisingly calm.

 

[Alienoz_TR]

https://twitter.com/x/status/526005624992456704

 

[Al-Kurdi]

Kurdish forces retake north Iraqi town from Islamic State
ARBIL Iraq Sat Oct 25, 2014 7:38pm IST


(Reuters) - Kurdish forces retook the northern Iraqi town of Zumar and several nearby villages from Islamic State early on Saturday after heavy coalition air strikes against the Islamist insurgents, security sources said.

A Kurdish intelligence officer in Zumar said peshmerga forces had advanced from five directions in the early morning and encountered fierce resistance, but ultimately prevailed. A spokesman for the peshmerga ministry also said Zumar was now in Kurdish hands.

Zumar was one of the first Kurdish-controlled towns to be overrun in August by Islamic State militants who went on to threaten the autonomous region's capital, prompting air strikes by the United States - a campaign since joined by Britain and France.

If the Kurds are able to keep Zumar, it would make it easier for them to advance on Sinjar, where Islamic State militants are besieging members of Iraq's Yazidi minority on a mountain.

Helped by the air strikes, Kurdish forces have regained ground from Islamic State but progress has been hampered by a lack of heavy weaponry and by homemade bombs and booby-traps laid by the militants.

The Kurds claimed victory in Zumar in September, only to withdraw from the town again after suffering heavy losses.

One peshmerga fighter deployed in the area on Saturday said a sniper was still at large in a village adjacent to Zumar, and a car bomb had exploded when they approached the vehicle, killing seven peshmerga.

In another village, Ayn al-Helwa, the peshmerga said 17 militants had been taken captive, all of whom were Sunni Turkmen from the nearby Iraqi city of Tel Afar.



(Reporting by Isabel Coles; Editing by Robin Pomeroy)

 

[Alienoz_TR]

In another village, Ayn al-Helwa, the peshmerga said 17 militants had been taken captive, all of whom were Sunni Turkmen from the nearby Iraqi city of Tel Afar.

Kurdish forces retake north Iraqi town from Islamic State| Reuters

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[Al-Kurdi]

https://twitter.com/x/status/525644693770469376

https://twitter.com/x/status/526037683811143680

 

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Iraqi security forces retook most of town near Baghdad from IS

Iraqi security forces have retaken most of the town of Jurf al-Sakhar near Baghdad from Islamic State militants, the biggest gains in months of fighting for the strategic area.

 

[Alienoz_TR]

25 October 2014

In Hit and its surrounding villages, ISIL gunmen have blown up a number of homes in the northwestern sector of the town along the banks of the Euphrates, among them the home of the member of Parliament Faisal Gu'oud and the homes of a number of Bu-Nimr tribal sheikhs who had defended the area for more than 2 weeks before it fell to the gunmen.
30 km away, in Baghdadi, fierce clashes resumed today while the town was being bombarded by mortar fire from across the river, driving residents to leave in search of safer areas.
In Fallujah, a number of residential districts were hit by mortar fire, in which one resident was killed and 17 wounded, according to initial estimates. Amiriyat Al-Fallujah is steadfast in resisting the advances by ISIL gunmen; the new Anbar police chief, Kadhum Al-Fahdawi, visited the town today and met with large numbers of local tribesmen. While there, he again called on the central government to 'extend a helping hand' in the fight against the armed groups and to recruit tribal volunteers to tske psrt in fighting them.
The Anbar Council has called today on the central government to provide additional funds for the province, in view of the large numbers of displaced people and families.

Daily Updates from Anbar: 25 October 2014

 

[Alienoz_TR]

BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraqi authorities say a suicide bombing has killed eight Shiite militiamen just north of Baghdad.

Iraqi police officials say the attack took place Saturday afternoon when a suicide bomber set off his explosives belt at a gathering of the militiamen in the town of Taji. The blast also wounded 17 people.

Taji is 20 kilometers (12 miles) north of Baghdad.

Medical officials confirmed the casualty figures from the attack. All officials spoke on condition of anonymity as they were not authorized to release the information.

Thousands of Iraqi Shiites answered a call from clergy in June to join security forces fighting the Sunni militants, who have captured large swaths of land in the country's west and north.

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