Iraq's war against IS terrorism | Updates and Discussions

[SubWater]

https://twitter.com/x/status/839512407550619648

wowwwwwwww
Unbelievable footage.
salute to Iraqi solders.
that is exactly image of running to martyrdom.

 

[TheCamelGuy]

I think the troops in the car reversing survived, not a direct strike and there's distance. Humvees can take that. Wounded however from the shock.

 

[SubWater]

I think the troops in the car reversing survived, not a direct strike and there's distance. Humvees can take that. Wounded however from the shock.

I hope that they stay alive and they deserve medal of honor although that does not change anything they run toward death for saving others.
that is exact difference between current Iraqi army in 2017 which build by Iraqi volunteer than collapse of 2014 American build Iraqi army.

 

[Frogman]

I think the troops in the car reversing survived, not a direct strike and there's distance. Humvees can take that. Wounded however from the shock.

The concussive impact (shock wave creates pressure) from the explosion at a short distance would have been too much. Humvees don't have suspended seating or any other protective equipment of modern MRAPs or Armd Vics. That's also not taking into account chances of debris and shrapnel penetrating.

Sorry to say but there was little to no chance anyone in that Humvee survived.

 

[Hindustani78]

Three roadside bombs laid by Islamic State group militants explode in a western Mosul neighbourhood, killing one of the Iraqi engineers attempting to diffuse the devices. Iraq.

 

[Malik Alashter]

Three roadside bombs laid by Islamic State group militants explode in a western Mosul neighbourhood, killing one of the Iraqi engineers attempting to diffuse the devices. Iraq.

R.I.P

 

[Hindustani78]

Al Asad Air base , Iraq . 4 March 2017

 

[TheCamelGuy]

Selfie in Mosul

These 2 helicopter types have done a lot of damage on IS, very valuable performance.

MI-28 NE

MI-35M

 

[TheCamelGuy]

Al Asad Air base , Iraq . 4 March 2017

I am not so sure what to think of this, Al Asad has large US and also British presence, already MQ-9 drones their, Apache helicopters, Chinook helo's, heavy artillery and such. The US has been installing aircraft systems there, now they're modernizing the whole base infrastructure. What if they plan to use Al-Asad as a permanent air force base? It complicates the region esp with regards to Iran and might either have good or bad effects on Iraq.

 

[HAIDER]

https://twitter.com/x/status/839512407550619648

Wooow just wooooow..... Driver is so damnzz intelligent .... Iraqi people gave so much sacrifice against these terrorist and foreign terrorist. Peace is just few yards away.....

 

[Hindustani78]

In this June 15, 2014 file photo, an Iraqi child works on a temporary mosaic of Pope Francis’ face made from the area’s produce, including wheat, beans and lentils for a harvest feast, at the Chaldean Church of the Virgin Mary of the Harvest, in Alqosh, a village about 50 km north of Mosul. Chaldeans make up the majority of Iraq’s Christians. But a community that numbered more than a million before the 2003 ouster of Saddam Hussein has since dwindled to less than 3,50,000 in the face of recurring violence. | Photo Credit: AP

http://www.thehindu.com/news/intern...-is-religious-police-base/article17440433.ece

“No entry, by order of the Islamic State Hesba Division [the religious police]” is the writing on the wall.
The elegant columns of a west Mosul church stand plastered with Islamic State group propaganda after the jihadists’ infamous religious police took over the Christian place of worship.

The sign above the door of Um al-Mauna (Our Mother of Perpetual Help) in Iraq’s second city reads “Chaldean Catholic church,” but its jihadist occupants had other ideas.

“No entry, by order of the Islamic State Hesba Division [the religious police], they wrote on the building’s outside wall. Five jihadists lie dead outside, their bodies twisted and one with the top of his skull blown off, after Iraqi forces retook the neighbourhood from the IS this week.

The church “was an important office for the authorities tasked with making sure [Mosul] residents had a beard, wore short robes and followed their extremist convictions,” says Lieutenant Colonel Abdulamir al-Mohammedawi of the elite Rapid Response Division.

Iraqi troops’ offensive
Iraqi forces are pushing an offensive to retake the whole of Mosul, the jihadist group's last major urban bastion in the country, after retaking its eastern side in January.

IS fighters took control of the city in 2014, imposing their harsh interpretation of Islamic law on its inhabitants.

Above the door of the ochre-coloured church, IS members have damaged a stone cross. Not far away, they seem to have tried to rip another from a metal door off its hinges.

No vestiges of Christianity
Not a single crucifix, or statue of Jesus Christ or the Virgin Mary has survived in the building’s nave, from which all marks of Christianity have been methodically removed.

Only the grey marble altar remains. In the church’s empty alcoves lies the base of a statue that was probably also destroyed, decorated with red and yellow flowers.

The posters on the church’s marble columns give an indication of what life was like under the IS.

One shows religious invocations to repeat in the mornings and evenings, while another explains the benefits of praying in a mosque.


A “town document” lists the 14 rules of life in Mosul under jihadist rule: “The trade and consumption of alcohol, drugs and cigarettes is banned.”

Women should wear modest attire and only appear in public “when necessary,” it says.

A pamphlet on the rubble-covered ground explains the different forms of corporal punishment prescribed for theft, alcohol consumption, adultery and homosexuality. It comes complete with chilling illustrations.

Jihadists have scribbled their noms de guerre on the church’s walls, and a large chandelier has been dumped in the yard.

In the church’s small side rooms, artificial flower garlands are draped near posters explaining how to use a Kalashnikov rifle.

Chaldeans, majority Christians
Chaldeans make up the majority of Iraq’s Christians. But a community that numbered more than a million before the 2003 ouster of Saddam Hussein has since dwindled to less than 3,50,000 in the face of recurring violence.

In June 2014, jihadist fighters led by the IS seized control of Mosul and ordered the city’s Christian community to convert to Islam, pay a special tax, leave or face execution.

Weeks later, the jihadists swept through Qaraqosh and the rest of the Nineveh Plain east of Mosul, where an estimated 120,000 Christians lived, prompting them all to flee.

But the Um al-Mauna Church is in a better condition than most of the rest of the Al-Dawasa neighbourhood, which has been ravaged by the fighting.

On one of its empty trading streets, once flashy shop facades have been reduced to contorted iron and shredded concrete.

On one poster advertising male clothing, IS members — whose interpretation of Islam forbids human representation — have blacked out the faces and bare arms of the models.

 

[Hindustani78]

http://aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/iraqi-forces-take-two-more-districts-of-western-mosul/768272

The Iraqi military on Friday announced the recapture of two more districts of western Mosul from the Daesh terrorist group.

“Federal police units liberated the Al-Nabi Sheet and Akidat districts,” General Abdul Amir Yarullah, who led the operation, said in a televised statement.

Odai Mohamed, an army officer, told Anadolu Agency that police forces had managed to evacuate hundreds of civilians from combat areas.

In mid-February, Iraqi forces -- backed by a U.S.-led air coalition -- began fresh operations aimed at dislodging Daesh terrorists from western Mosul.

The offensive comes as part of a wider campaign launched last October to retake the city, which Daesh overran -- along with much of northern and western Iraq -- in mid-2014.

 

[Malik Alashter]

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=264792187256177

 

[Hindustani78]

http://www.arabnews.com/node/1067161/middle-east#photo/0

MOSUL, Iraq: Iraqi forces have retaken more than a third of west Mosul from the Daesh group, a commander said, as Baghdad’s troops fought Sunday to advance deeper into the city.

Iraqi forces launched the operation to recapture west Mosul — the most populated urban area still under Daesh control — on February 19, retaking a series of areas as they advanced up from the south.

Officers have said that jihadist resistance is weakening, but tough fighting — including in the Old City, a warren of narrow streets and closely-spaced buildings where hundreds of thousands of civilians may still reside — remains ahead.

“Around more than a third of the right bank (west Mosul) is under the control of our units,” Major General Maan Al-Saadi of the elite Counter-Terrorism Service told AFP.

CTS forces were battling Daesh inside the Mosul Al-Jadida and Al-Aghawat areas in west Mosul on Sunday, said Saadi, adding that he expected the fighting there to be completed in the coming hours.

And Iraq’s Joint Operations Command (JOC) said that forces from the Rapid Response Division, another special forces unit, and the federal police were attacking the Bab Al-Toub area on the edge of the Old City.
But the process of advancing in Mosul is laborious, Saadi said.

“We are not able to leave pockets (of jihadists) behind us; therefore, the advance includes taking control of areas and searching and clearing them and security checks on the citizens present, then the continuation of the advance,” he said.

The jihadists are “still relying on explosives-rigged vehicles and suicide bombers and snipers” and units that aim to slow the Iraqi advance, Brig. Gen. Yahya Rasool, the spokesman for the JOC, told AFP.

“The battle is not easy... we are fighting an irregular enemy who hides among the citizens and uses tactics of booby-trapping, explosions and suicide bombers, and the operation is taking place with precision to preserve the lives of the citizens,” Rasool said.

But Daesh resistance “has begun to weaken in a big way,” he said.

The battle against Daesh inside west Mosul is being spearheaded by CTS and the Rapid Response Division, the latter of which is working with the federal police.

Outside Mosul, Iraqi army forces and pro-government paramilitaries are operating against Daesh to the west of the city.

On Saturday, the Hashed Al-Shaabi — an umbrella organization for paramilitary groups that is dominated by Iran-backed Shiite militias — announced the discovery of a large mass grave northwest of Mosul.

The Hashed said the grave contained the remains of around 500 people killed by Daesh at the Badush prison, a figure that could not be independently confirmed, but which was in keeping with accounts from Human Rights Watch and the United Nations.

According to HRW, Daesh gunmen executed up to 600 inmates from the prison on June 10, 2014, forcing them to kneel along a nearby ravine and then shooting them with assault rifles, an account also contained in a UN report.
Daesh overran large areas north and west of Baghdad in 2014, but Iraqi forces backed by US-led air strikes and other support have since retaken most of the territory they lost.

 

[HAIDER]

http://www.arabnews.com/node/1067161/middle-east#photo/0

MOSUL, Iraq: Iraqi forces have retaken more than a third of west Mosul from the Daesh group, a commander said, as Baghdad’s troops fought Sunday to advance deeper into the city.

Iraqi forces launched the operation to recapture west Mosul — the most populated urban area still under Daesh control — on February 19, retaking a series of areas as they advanced up from the south.

Officers have said that jihadist resistance is weakening, but tough fighting — including in the Old City, a warren of narrow streets and closely-spaced buildings where hundreds of thousands of civilians may still reside — remains ahead.

“Around more than a third of the right bank (west Mosul) is under the control of our units,” Major General Maan Al-Saadi of the elite Counter-Terrorism Service told AFP.

CTS forces were battling Daesh inside the Mosul Al-Jadida and Al-Aghawat areas in west Mosul on Sunday, said Saadi, adding that he expected the fighting there to be completed in the coming hours.

And Iraq’s Joint Operations Command (JOC) said that forces from the Rapid Response Division, another special forces unit, and the federal police were attacking the Bab Al-Toub area on the edge of the Old City.
But the process of advancing in Mosul is laborious, Saadi said.

“We are not able to leave pockets (of jihadists) behind us; therefore, the advance includes taking control of areas and searching and clearing them and security checks on the citizens present, then the continuation of the advance,” he said.

The jihadists are “still relying on explosives-rigged vehicles and suicide bombers and snipers” and units that aim to slow the Iraqi advance, Brig. Gen. Yahya Rasool, the spokesman for the JOC, told AFP.

“The battle is not easy... we are fighting an irregular enemy who hides among the citizens and uses tactics of booby-trapping, explosions and suicide bombers, and the operation is taking place with precision to preserve the lives of the citizens,” Rasool said.

But Daesh resistance “has begun to weaken in a big way,” he said.

The battle against Daesh inside west Mosul is being spearheaded by CTS and the Rapid Response Division, the latter of which is working with the federal police.

Outside Mosul, Iraqi army forces and pro-government paramilitaries are operating against Daesh to the west of the city.

On Saturday, the Hashed Al-Shaabi — an umbrella organization for paramilitary groups that is dominated by Iran-backed Shiite militias — announced the discovery of a large mass grave northwest of Mosul.

The Hashed said the grave contained the remains of around 500 people killed by Daesh at the Badush prison, a figure that could not be independently confirmed, but which was in keeping with accounts from Human Rights Watch and the United Nations.

According to HRW, Daesh gunmen executed up to 600 inmates from the prison on June 10, 2014, forcing them to kneel along a nearby ravine and then shooting them with assault rifles, an account also contained in a UN report.
Daesh overran large areas north and west of Baghdad in 2014, but Iraqi forces backed by US-led air strikes and other support have since retaken most of the territory they lost.

Wise move. Go slow but combing operation is necessary .