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ISIS Confirms Senior Commander Omar al-Shishani Killed in Iraq

Associated Press
July 13, 2016

This file image made from undated video posted during the weekend of June 28, 2014 by the Islamic State, shows Omar al-Shishani.

U.S. and Iraqi officials had declared al-Shishani — also known as Omar the Chechen — dead back in March
(BEIRUT) — An Islamic State-run media outlet says Omar al-Shishani, one of the group’s top military commanders, has been killed in fighting near the Iraqi city of Mosul.

U.S. and Iraqi officials, as well as Syrian activists, said in March that al-Shishani, who was in his 30s, had died of wounds sustained in a U.S. airstrike in Syria.

But the ISIS-run Aamaq news agency reported Wednesday that al-Shishani was “martyred” in the town of al-Shirqat, near Mosul, while helping to “halt the military campaign” against the ISIS-held city. ISIS supporters published eulogies to al-Shishani on social media and messaging networks.

Aamaq had denied that al-Shishani was killed in March, without providing evidence that he was alive.

It was not immediately possible to reconcile the conflicting reports.

http://time.com/4405609/senior-commander-al-shishani-reported-dead/?xid=tcoshare

 

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The German government is planning to ship another aid package to the Kurds which will involve 200 MILAN Anti-Tank Missiles, 5 ATF Dingos and 4,000 more assault rifles.

 

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The German government is planning to ship another aid package to the Kurds which will involve 200 MILAN Anti-Tank Missiles, 5 ATF Dingos and 4,000 more assault rifles.

Seems like the Kurds are heading toward a Kurdish state.

 

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Seems like the Kurds are heading toward a Kurdish state.

I Don't think state bro, but more Political and military alliances. Before the conflict we did not really arm or even politically back the Kurds and now we are doing the opposite. Later I shall post what Germany has donated to Kurds all together

 

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http://www.defense.gov/News-Article...-isil-strikes-target-terrorists-in-syria-iraq
July 15, 2016 — U.S. and coalition military forces continued to attack Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant terrorists in Syria and Iraq yesterday, Combined Joint Task Force Operation Inherent Resolve officials reported today.
http://www.defense.gov/News-Article...es-target-terrorists-in-syria-iraq#pop1256476

Operation Inherent Resolve - Targeted Operations Against ISIL Terrorists


Strikes in Syria

Bomber, attack, fighter, and remotely piloted aircraft conducted 11 strikes near Manbij in Syria, striking six separate ISIL tactical units and destroying 18 ISIL fighting positions and damaging an ISIL-used bridge.

Strikes in Iraq

Bomber, ground-attack, fighter, and remotely piloted aircraft conducted six strikes in Iraq, coordinated with and in support of Iraq’s government:

-- Near Baghdadi, a strike struck an ISIL tactical unit and destroyed an ISIL fighting position.

-- Near Qaim, a strike struck an ISIL tactical unit and destroyed an ISIL vehicle.

-- Near Mosul, a strike struck an oil tanker storage area.

-- Near Qayyarah, a strike denied ISIL access to terrain.

-- Near Ramadi, a strike struck an ISIL tactical unit and destroyed two ISIL fighting positions.

-- Near Sultan Abdallah, a strike struck an ISIL vehicle bomb production and storage facility.

Also, in support of coalition operations, coalition fighter aircraft conducted a strike near Albu Hayat in Iraq, striking inoperable coalition equipment thus denying ISIL access to such equipment

 

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http://www.defense.gov/News-Article...-isil-strikes-target-terrorists-in-syria-iraq
U.S. and coalition military forces continued to attack Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant terrorists in Syria and Iraq yesterday, Combined Joint Task Force Operation Inherent Resolve officials reported today.


Operation Inherent Resolve
Operation Inherent Resolve - Targeted Operations Against ISIL Terrorists

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

Strikes in Syria

Bomber, attack, fighter and remotely piloted aircraft conducted 21 strikes in Syria:

-- Near Dayr Az Zawr, a strike destroyed an ISIL crane and an ISIL front-end loader.

-- Near Manbij, 18 strikes struck 15 separate ISIL tactical units and destroyed 13 ISIL fighting positions, an ISIL heavy machine gun, an ISIL mortar system, seven ISIL vehicles, two ISIL vehicle bombs, an ISIL staging area and an ISIL tactical vehicle.

-- Near Mar’a, two strikes struck two separate ISIL tactical units and destroyed four ISIL fighting positions.

Strikes in Iraq

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

-- Near Baghdadi, two strikes struck an ISIL tactical unit and an ISIL staging area and destroyed two ISIL vehicles and an ISIL weapons cache.

-- Near Hit, a strike struck an ISIL vehicle bomb-making facility.

-- Near Mosul, four strikes struck an ISIL headquarters and destroyed two ISIL vehicles and an ISIL tunnel entrance.

-- Near Qayyarah, two strikes destroyed an ISIL headquarters and an ISIL training camp.

-- Near Tal Afar, a strike struck an ISIL headquarters.

 

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

Officials reported details of yesterday’s strikes, noting that assessments of results are based on initial reports.


Operation Inherent Resolve
Operation Inherent Resolve - Targeted Operations Against ISIL Terrorists

Strikes in Syria

Bomber, attack, ground-attack, fighter and remotely piloted aircraft conducted 12 strikes in Syria:

-- Near Abu Kamal, a strike destroyed two ISIL oil wellheads.

-- Near Manbij, 11 strikes struck eight separate ISIL tactical units and destroyed 22 ISIL fighting positions.

Strikes in Iraq

Rocket artillery and attack and fighter aircraft conducted 11 strikes in Iraq, coordinated with and in support of the Iraqi government:

-- Near Baghdadi, two strikes struck an ISIL tactical unit and an ISIL beddown location and destroyed two ISIL fighting positions.

-- Near Beiji, a strike destroyed three ISIL tunnel entrances and an ISIL tunnel vent.

-- Near Mosul, two strikes struck an ISIL tactical unit and an ISIL security headquarters and destroyed two ISIL vehicles.

-- Near Qayyarah, two strikes struck an ISIL tactical unit and destroyed two ISIL mortar systems, 14 ISIL rocket rails and an ISIL vehicle and denied ISIL access to terrain.

-- Near Ramadi, a strike struck an ISIL tactical unit and destroyed two ISIL fighting positions.

-- Near Sinjar, two strikes destroyed an ISIL mortar system and suppressed an ISIL mortar position.

-- Near Sultan Abdallah, a strike struck a large ISIL tactical unit and destroyed an ISIL headquarters

 

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http://www.defense.gov/News-Article...nes-counter-isil-coalition-meeting-at-andrews
Coalition partners are looking for ways to build on the momentum of the counter-Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant campaign as they meet at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, today.





Defense Secretary Ash Carter convened the meeting to discuss the counter-ISIL campaign and to formulate ways to accelerate the defeat of the terrorist group.

This is a “critically important time for our counter-ISIL military campaign,” Carter said.

“Thanks to this global coalition, our clear and deliberate campaign plan, our dedicated local partner forces, and the sacrifices of our militaries’ members,” he added, “we now have momentum in this fight and clear results on the ground.”

The coalition campaign is working to fight ISIL in Iraq and Syria where the group’s leaders declared a caliphate, Carter said. Another objective is to combat ISIL elsewhere in the world. The final objective is to protect coalition homelands.

Update

The Andrews meeting is an update to the Coalition Military Campaign Plan leaders agreed to in January, the secretary said.

“Our campaign’s strategic approach is to identify and enable capable and motivated local forces who can deliver ISIL a lasting defeat,” Carter said. “Only local forces can deliver and sustain such a defeat by holding and governing territory after it has been retaken from ISIL.”

There has been much progress since last year when Army Lt. Gen. Sean MacFarland became the overall operational commander for Inherent Resolve, the secretary said.

The campaign set in motion a series of specific and deliberate steps that the coalition had to accomplish to put ISIL on a path to a lasting defeat, Carter said.

“And since then -- play by play, town after town, from every direction and in every domain -- our campaign has accelerated further, squeezing ISIL and rolling it back towards Raqqa and Mosul,” he said. “We’re isolating those two cities and effectively setting the stage to collapse ISIL’s control over them.”

Iraqi Progress

In Iraq, the coalition effort enables Iraqi forces led by Prime Minister Haidar Abadi and the Peshmerga supported by Kurdish Regional President Masoud Barzani. After clearing Ramadi, the Iraqi security forces moved on to liberate Hit, Rutbah, and Fallujah.

“Early last week, they seized the strategically important Qayyarah West airfield, which is a critical logistical springboard for the effort to collapse ISIL’s control of Mosul,” Carter said.

The coalition is also seeing results in Syria, the secretary said. After seizing Shaddadi -- a crucial junction on the road between Mosul and Raqqa -- indigenous partners on the ground have now surrounded the city of Manbij, one of the last junctions connecting Raqqa to the outside world.

Coalition efforts have been aimed at systematically eliminating key ISIL leaders and the group’s financial base. “Wherever our local partners have moved -- whether in Anbar, Ninewah or Manbij -- we have taken out ISIL’s field commanders,” Carter said. “Meanwhile, we’re continuing attacks on ISIL’s economic infrastructure -- from oil wells and trucks to cash storage sites. And we’re taking the fight to ISIL across all domains, including cyber.”

Intensifying the Campaign

Now is not a time to rest, Carter said. Army Gen. Joseph L. Votel, the commander of U.S. Central Command, will brief defense leaders during the meeting on what is needed to intensify the campaign.

“We’ll identify the capabilities and support required to execute those next plays,” Carter said.

“Today, we’ll identify both our enduring and emerging requirements and review our detailed metrics matrix of national contributions -- going through it row by row, column and column, and country by country,” he said. “We must ensure that our partners on the ground have what they need to win the fight and then hold, rebuild and govern their territory.”

Carter said the coalition also needs to address the influence of ISIL outside Iraq and Syria.

“Today, we’ll also discuss how we can continue to combat ISIL wherever it might attempt to take hold and how our military campaign can best support our national governments’ efforts to protect our respective homelands and people,” he said.

 

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http://www.defense.gov/News/Article/Article/947094/coalition-strike-kills-senior-isil-leader
WASHINGTON, Sept. 16, 2016 — A Sept. 7 coalition precision strike near Raqqah, Syria, targeted and killed "Dr. Wa'il," also known as Wa'il Adil Hasan Salman al-Fayad, one of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant's most-senior leaders, Pentagon Press Secretary Peter Cook said in a statement issued today.
http://www.defense.gov/News/Article...on-strike-kills-senior-isil-leader#pop1439902

The deceased terrorist had operated as the minister of information for the terror organization and was a prominent member of its Senior Shura Council -- ISIL's leadership group, Cook said.

ISIL Propagandist

Wa'il oversaw ISIL's production of terrorist propaganda videos showing torture and executions, the press secretary said.

Cook said Wa’il was a close associate of Abu Muhammad al-Adnani, the ISIL spokesman and leader who plotted and inspired external terror attacks. Al-Adnani was successfully struck and killed by coalition forces Aug. 30.

The removal of ISIL's senior leaders degrades its ability to retain territory, and its ability to plan, finance, and direct attacks inside and outside of the region, Cook said.

“We will continue to work with our coalition partners to build momentum in the campaign to deal ISIL a lasting defeat,” the press secretary said.