12th Aug: The United States sends another 130 “Advisors” to Iraqi Kurdistan
13th Aug: The US is reporting that its reconnaissance missions are confirming that the plight of the Yazidis is not as severe as was expected
14th Aug: The US Secretary of Defence clarifies that US troops will not take part in military operations in Iraq
14th Aug: The Iraqi Airforce bombs a Daash position in Al Atheem and kills a large number of Daash fighters. Five vehicles are also reportedly destroyed in the raid.
14th Aug: The Iraqi a Security Forces suffer 10 casualties when a road side bomb planted by Daash explodes in Al Atheem district, north east of Baqouba.
The Iraqi forces have arrested a Saudi member of Daash in Al Atheem and have taken him for “questioning”
14th Aug: Daash has executed 4 Ethnic Kurds in Jalawla for providing intelligence to Peshmerga forces.
Daash has also marked fifty houses belonging to Officials and is expected to confiscate them
14th Aug: The a Gathering/Group of Scholars in Iraq, a Sunni Muslim organisation, has requested that a new Iraqi government be formed quickly and that it’s leaders should learn from the sectarian mistakes of the previous regime. It should look at laws that were “controversial” and “sectarian,” should be fair and unpartisan, should curb religious extremism, fight Daash, and move towards an equitable society.
14th Aug: eighteen Peshmerga fighters are killed in two separate instances of bombings in Diyala. IEDs and car bombs were used.
14th Aug: Masoud Barzani talks to Haider Al Abadi over the telephone and offers his full support in forming the new government
14th Aug: The Iraqi Airforce bombs 7 trucks belonging to Daash carrying weapons in Anbar. The trucks were travelling north of Hadetha.
14th Aug: Johnson Siawesh, a Christian and the Minister of Transport in Iraqi Kurdistan, resigns at the state of affairs of Christians in Iraq and Iraqi Kurdistan.
14th Aug: The Iraqi Airforce is reporting killing 28 fighters of Daash in airstrikes in the provinces of Salah Al Din, Nineveh, and Anbar.
14th Aug: Fighting breaks out between Daash fighters and the Iraqi Army on the outskirts of Fallujah. Fifteen people are reported dead.
14th Aug: The Iraqi army claims to have taken control of four cities: Al-Dhuluiya, Al-Ishaqi, Al-Mutassim and Balad in Salah Al Din province in the last two weeks after forcing out Daash.
The Iraqi army has killed 70 Daash fighters when it retook Haditha Dam in Anbar that it briefly lost to Daash
14th Aug: The US reports having delivered 15 million rounds of different types of ammunition and 10000 artillery rounds to the Iraqi government. Hellfire missiles were also delivered.
14th Aug: The US kills two Daash fighters in airstrikes in Sinjar
14th Aug: The Iraqi Army claims to be in complete control of Al Atheem sub district
15th Aug: Nouri Al Maliki appears on Iraqi television and endorses Haider Al Abadi in the “higher interest of Iraq”
15th Aug: The National Alliance has stated that the appointment of ministers in the new Haider Al Abadi cabinet will be based on meritocracy and not on political affiliation
15th Aug: The progress of the Iraqi army has more or less come to a stand still with no major offensives being carried out. There appears to be a lack of leadership and managerial experience in the army’s leadership.
15th Aug: The National a Alliance is deciding between Hussein al-Shahristani and Shaikh Humam Hamoudi for the post of First Deputy Speaker that Haider Al Abadi has now vacated
15th Aug: the UK carries out an “aid air drop” over Mount Sinjar. The airdrop consists of 13200 litres of drinking water and 480 tents. Strangely solar batteries and lamps that can also be used to charge mobile phones were also dropped.
15th Aug: The Iraqi airforce has reportedly bombed Ghazlani camp in Nineveh That resulted in killing Abu Azzam al-Kandahari, a Daash terrorist, and Mohammed Ali al-Obeidi, in charge of military engineering for Daash.
Another airstrikes in Tal Afar district killed Haqi Farhat (in charge of Daash checkpoints) and 15 Daash fighters
15th Aug: The US and UK stop airlifting aid to Sinjar after claiming that the refugees are better off now. The number of refugees is now being reported as being less than 4000.
Obama says that US airstrikes will continue in Iraq with the aim of protecting US personnel and interests and that US airstrikes broke the siege of Mount Sinjar
15th Aug: Six Peshmerga fighters are killed and three injured in fighting in central Jalawla
15th Aug: Daash terrorists attack and kill 100s of Yazidis in the village of Kojo in Sinjar and take women and girls prisoner after they repurposed to convert to “Islam”
15th Aug: The US is planning to build an airbase in Iraqi Kurdistan
15th Aug: His Eminence Grand Ayatullah al-Sayyid Ali al-Hussani al-Sistani backs the new Prime Minister of Iraq, urges an end to corruption and instructs the Iraqi Army to hoist only the Iraqi flag and avoid factionalism
Further reading:
Special forces of the US and UK have been operating in Iraq for weeks:
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iraq/11032684/SAS-sent-in-to-Iraq-as-US-troops-land-on-Mount-Sinjar.html
Insightful interview by Nasrallah:
http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/hezbollah-leader-reveals-secrets-july-2006-war
“14th Aug: The US Secretary of Defence clarifies that US troops will not take part in military operations in Iraq”
I’ll bet he crossed his fingers behind his back as he spoke that.
Thanks for the sitrep, Mindfriedo.
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Below some interesting videos relating to ISIS (IS).
Islamic State (Vice News)
The Rise of ISIS / ISIL In Iraq
Rage Against the Regime: the CIA, NGOs & Color Revolutions
Imam of Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem on the takfiries
One of the interesting facts is the % of Wahhabi that are in Saudi. I was expecting something like 90%, but it turns out Saudi only has 22%, while Qatar and UAE have closer to 50% but their nationalised population is like a million.
Other new news to me, is the existence of two radical satellite channels, Safa TV and Wesal TV which are nothing but anti-shia hate channels. Strange thing is both started at 2009. Tried to find more information on who funds apart from just stating Saudi, but failed.
Still a big believer that ISIS was a CIA creation that was armed by NATO. They are somewhat similar to the Bolshevik movement in the mass slaughter, but instead of Godless these ones are Religious fanatics which are more suited to the war torn nation.
They killed 700 in one tribe in Syria today.
Will the leading nations fighting terrorism join to exterminate ISIS?
They are vermin. I’d like to see Syria invite in China’s PLA to get some more experience fighting these terrorists so they will be better prepared when they make a move against Xinjiang.
Maybe send in 10,000 fast moving troops and help clear Syria of this menace.
this is a fantastic web site that I just found via whatreallyhappened.com.
keep up the great work guys! I shall read it every day.
excellent posts
Update from Canuckistan:
@Larchmonter445 et. @Everyone concerned,
The scroll at the bottom of the propaganda networks are “claiming” that the Wests “rebels” that are fighting (losing) against “Assad” are calling for air strikes against IS fearing that they will be overun and attacked.
Geez, one Western backed group of terrorists fear another Western backed group of terrorists. It alomost appears as if the West intended to drive IS right back into Syria, especially considering all of those “refugees” seemed to somehow find themselves (conveniently) there. Meanwhile the on-air and online reporting is focused on the dam, which more than likely will somehow get blown open, accidentally by an errant air strike, oops, or purposely to purge the commoners and plunge Iraq into utter chaos.
One may ponder how that could have happened, eh? It sure will serve as a great cover for the failures in Ukraine and the pending war crimes investigation in Israel/Gaza…
Btw: thanks to all that are keeping an eye and posting contributions about these events as they are vital and special thanks to Mindfriedo for the SITEREPS!
@AntiNWO: One of the interesting facts is the % of Wahhabi that are in Saudi. I was expecting something like 90%, but it turns out Saudi only has 22%, while Qatar and UAE have closer to 50% but their nationalised population is like a million.
Dearest Brother,
You are a keen reader and an excellent observer. The source which I quoted earlier was Wikipedia which is owned by the Empire. While reading it one needs a spoonful of salt and a grain of salt wouldn’t suffice.
Saudi Arabia is almost all Wahhabis, but they go with different names being ashamed. The remaining 25% to 30% are Shia who live in the South bordering with Yemen where all the OIL is.
On the other side in Yemen are the Houthis, who are Shia again. The Yemeni OIL is being siphoned off Saudi Arabia.
The Brotherhood is in many countries and they belong to different sects and in the past they included the Shia and Christians too. I don’t know why in UAE and Qatar they are considered Wahhabis. Maybe, Yusuf al-Qaradawi being based in Qatar and his very, very strong affiliation with the Qatar’s Royal Family. He is also somehow connected to the Brotherhood.
Best regards,
Mohamed.
The current meme in Iraq and now Syria is to claim an IS massacre inflate the numbers and add women and children and then beg for US airstrikes. It worked for the Kurds even though these massacres are never verified or even actually investigated.
This propaganda is understandable coming from groups being overrun by IS forces but those who parrot them are either fools or tools.
I’m beginning to think that the leaders of IS are behind much of this and using it as PsyOps to draw the US deeper into these conflicts. This serves their purposes well as more US involvement means much more support for their cause.