Iraq - Fallujah assault

http://www.iraqinews.com/iraq-war/s...ommunications-headquarters-southern-fallujah/
The Federal Police Command announced on Monday about destroying the ISIS communications headquarters in southern Fallujah during the liberation battles of the city and informed about the killing of a number of ISIS members during the operations.

Federal Police Chief, Major General Raed Shaker Jawdat, in a press statement, a copy of which was also received by Iraqi News, said, “The joint security forces from the army, Federal Police and local police in Anbar managed to destroy a communication headquarter belonging to ISIS in Amiriyah near southern Fallujah and killed the ISIS members who were inside it.”

Jawdat added, “The liberation battles of Fallujah are still going on in all areas especially after liberating al-Shuhada neighborhood completely.”

“The joint security forces are working to evacuate the innocent civilians from Fallujah axes and away from the battles against ISIS members,” Jawdat continued.
http://www.iraqinews.com/iraq-war/joint-forces-storm-central-fallujah-gun-down-six-suicide-bombers/
On Monday, officials in the Anbar Operations Command revealed that the joint security forces have started military operations and stormed into central Fallujah (62 km west of Baghdad). It was further informed that the forces so far have shot down six (6) suicide bombers during the operation.

An official statement issued by the Anbar Operations Command and also received by Iraqi News, stated, “This morning the joint security forces started a military operation to advance into Nezal neighborhood in central Fallujah after liberating al-Shuhada neighborhood to the south of the city.”

“The [security] forces clashed with ISIS members and managed to kill six (6) suicide bombers of the organisation,” the statement continued.

Adding further,“Nezal neighborhood in central Fallujah is one of the most important residential neighborhoods of the city center. ISIS is trying to booby-trap large number of main roads and houses to hinder the progress of the security forces.”
 
650 Fallujah escapees missing amid killings and torture by Shiite militia
http://rudaw.net/english/middleeast/iraq/130620161
The fate of 650 civilians among thousands who have been able to escape the clutches of the Islamic State in the embattled town of Fallujah is unknown, according to local tribal officials.

After many reports of violations committed against Fallujah residents by Shiite militia, "a special committee has been formed to follow up on missing cases among people fleeing ISIS. So far, 650 people are missing," Ghassan Issawi, a spokesperson for the Sunni tribesmen, told Rudaw.

"Efforts have been made in coordination with the Anbar Provincial Council, the central government and Iraqi Federal Police to stop these violations against the refugees of Saqlawya and other liberated areas from ISIS," Issawi added.

Saqlawya is located just north of Fallujah.

Issawi explained that reports of violations were being investigated in order to prevent such atrocities from happening again.

"As of now, we are speaking with the Fallujah and Saqlawya refugees to talk about their situations," he concluded.
 
Seems the Saudis are involved -
http://rudaw.net/english/middleeast/120620161
The Iraqi central government, however, has raised questions of Saudi Arabia’s possible connections with ISIS. Baghdad is demanding an explanation from Saudi Arabia after a senior Saudi official admitted to fundraising in the kingdom for ISIS terrorists fighting in the Iraqi city of Fallujah.

“We are waiting for a clarification from the Saudi Government regarding its spokesman’s press statements regarding the collection of financial donations for ISIS within the kingdom due to the compassion of some people with it,” reads a statement from Iraq’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. “This case is considered as an obvious violation to the Security Council’s decisions.”
 
Iraq arrests 500 IS suspects fleeing Fallujah with civilians
Iraqi forces on Monday said jihadist fighters were attempting to flee Fallujah by blending in with civilians who have used recently opened corridors to escape the besieged the city.
More than 500 suspected Islamic State members have been arrested trying to sneak out with fleeing civilians since forces ramped up efforts to retake Fallujah, one of the group's most emblematic bastions, two weeks ago.
"We have arrested 546 suspected terrorists who had fled by taking advantage of the movements of displaced families over the past two weeks," said Hadi Rzayej, the police chief for Anbar province in which Fallujah is located.
"Many of them were using fake IDs," he told AFP from the southern edge of Fallujah, where Iraqi forces are pressing a three-week-old offensive to retake the city from IS.
When civilians reach government forces, teenage boys and adult men are screened separately. Some are released after a few hours while others undergo more thorough interrogation.
"Daesh (IS) is fleeing among the civilians, we have arrested many and are investigating the suspects," said Abdelwahab al-Saadi, the overall commander of the three-week-old Fallujah operation.

Estimates for the number of IS fighters holed up in Fallujah vary from 1,000 to 2,500.
Iraqi forces have been making slow but steady progress over the past two weeks, with elite troops dodging suicide car bombs and picking their way through thousands of explosive devices to work their way up from the south of the city.
"This is a phase of street battles now, our fighters and the militants are sometimes only 20 metres from each other, fighting with light weapons," said Saadi.
 
robert99 said:
Seems the Saudis are involved -
http://rudaw.net/english/middleeast/120620161
The Iraqi central government, however, has raised questions of Saudi Arabia’s possible connections with ISIS. Baghdad is demanding an explanation from Saudi Arabia after a senior Saudi official admitted to fundraising in the kingdom for ISIS terrorists fighting in the Iraqi city of Fallujah.

“We are waiting for a clarification from the Saudi Government regarding its spokesman’s press statements regarding the collection of financial donations for ISIS within the kingdom due to the compassion of some people with it,” reads a statement from Iraq’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. “This case is considered as an obvious violation to the Security Council’s decisions.”
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OH BIG SURPRISE HERE!

Being female, I am not a huge fan of the Saudis. The US has been trading our freedom for cheap oil for decades. Shameful.
 
Fallujah’s aid crisis
As the offensive on Fallujah’s city center grows near, humanitarian aid organizations are in a bind on two fronts. They are unable to deliver aid to the city center and are struggling to accommodate civilians fleeing the city, adding to the already astounding number of internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Iraq.

To complicate matters further, many of the IDPs are escaping to areas controlled by Shiite militias who not only are without the needed aid readily available but have been reported to be mistreating them as well.

The Iraqi Red Crescent Society (IRCS) has been attempting to reach Fallujah’s city center in order to deliver food and medical supplies but has remained unsuccessful due to the ongoing fighting.
 
Federal Police forces liberate Fallujah Dam - Iraqi News
Federal Police captain Lt. Gen. Raed Shaker Jawdat announced on Tuesday, that the Federal Police forces have managed to liberate Fallujah Dam, situated towards south of the city, from ISIS control.
Joint forces advance into central Fallujah from all sides - Iraqi News
Media officials with the Ministry of Defense announced on Tuesday that the joint security forces, in a bid to liberate Fallujah from ISIS control, are advancing into the center of the city from all sides.

In a statement issued to the media by the press office, a copy of which was also received by Iraqi News, it was stated, “This morning the Federal Police troops advanced into the center of Fallujah city from four sides,” adding, “The commandos regiments from Baghdad Operations also started to advance into the center of Fallujah from other quarters.”
 
IS may be down but it is not out - BBC News
In Iraq, US-trained security forces have been pushing to encircle Falluja, backed up by various largely Shia militias.

There remains huge concern for civilians trapped in the city, though at least one humanitarian corridor has opened to help some to escape.

Falluja, though, for now may mark the limits of the capabilities of Iraq's military.

US experts are said to be sceptical about its capacity to take the much more significant target of Mosul; Iraq's second-largest city and the headquarters of IS in Iraq.

Iraqi forces are said to be over-stretched and with fragile logistics.

Major operations may require significant additional injections of US support.
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And in Iraq, the government has failed - some would say it has barely tried - to take on a less sectarian hue and provide the broader governance that the country so badly needs.

So while Western leaders dust off their maps and claim significant reverses for IS, the very factors that allowed the organisation to establish itself in the first place remain.

That is not a setting for the strategic defeat of IS nor for the defeat of its ideas, which one way or another have the capacity to leap great distances and to inspire individuals or groups a continent away from its heartland.
 
Iraqi forces edge into Fallujah: US
Iraqi forces edge into Fallujah: US Author: AFPPosted June 15, 2016

Iraqi security forces have entered Fallujah as they continue their battle to wrest the besieged city from the Islamic State group, the Pentagon said Wednesday.
Baghdad-based military spokesman Colonel Chris Garver said Iraqi counterterrorism fighters, commandos and federal police units are now inside the city's southern edge, but stressed that progress remains slow.

"They have a foothold in the southern corner or the southern edge of the city. But it's been a significant fight to grab that foothold, and so they're continuing to try to expand," he said in a video call with Pentagon reporters.

The Fallujah fight remains slow and difficult, with the "hundreds" of remaining jihadists putting up stiff resistance using machine guns, shelling and homemade bombs, Garver said.

"It's a tough fight and it gets tougher the closer you get into the city, the harder it gets," he said.

"The distances that they move on a daily basis, the closer they get in, they get smaller and the meters that you gain become tougher to gain, they become more significant as we get them."

The IS group's systematic use of civilians for human shields has helped hamper progress against the massively outnumbered jihadists.
 
The squeeze continues - PressTV-Iraqi forces liberate several Fallujah areas
Iraqi government forces have managed to retake several areas in and around Fallujah from the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group as they are pushing toward the heart of the strategic city in the beleaguered western province of Anbar.

On Thursday, Iraqi security personnel wrested control of Nazzal district on the southern outskirt of Fallujah, located roughly 69 kilometers (43 miles) west of the capital Baghdad, Arabic-language al-Forat news agency reported.

A security source, who declined to be named, said the forces also arrested 27 Daesh extremists, mostly citizens of Arab countries and Western nationals, who had been holed up inside an underground tunnel dug beneath the area.

Iraqi security forces also searched residential buildings across the district, and recovered a considerable amount of medium-caliber weapons, explosive belts and documents containing classified information about future Daesh operations.

The Iraqi Joint Special Operations Command also announced that security forces took control over a road linking Nazzal to the Industrial District just east of Fallujah.

Federal Police Forces Commander Lieutenant General Raed Shaker Jawdat also said Iraqi rapid reaction forces wrested control of Jabil region as well as Street Sixty and Baghdad al-Hayawi Street in central Fallujah.

Additionally, Iraqi security forces successfully liberated Fallujah's southeastern districts of al-Khazr, al-Khazir and al-Salem.
 
IS re-grouping?
ISIS elements begin mass escape from central Fallujah, says Federal Police - Iraqi News
The Federal Police captain Lt. Gen. Raed Shaker Jawdat announced on Thursday, that the ISIS elements began a mass escape from central Fallujah.

Jawdat said in a press statement received by Iraqi News, “The Federal Police forces continue to advance into the center of Fallujah amid total collapse among the ranks of the [ISIS] elements in the city,” pointing out that, “ISIS began a mass escape from central Fallujah towards the areas of al-Halabsa and Albu Elwan west of the city.”
Joint security forces enter central Fallujah, destroy 15 bobby-trapped vehicles - Iraqi News
The Federal Police Command announced on Thursday, that the joint security forces had entered the center of Fallujah City, while pointed out to the killing of tens of ISIS members during the battles and the destruction of 15 booby-trapped vehicles.

Federal Police Chief, Lt. Gen. Raed Shaker Jawdat, said in a press statement, a copy of which was obtained by Iraqi News, “The security forces managed, at noon today, to enter central Fallujah and advance into Baghdad Street and the metal bridge in the center of the city.”

“The battles resulted in the killing of dozens of ISIS members, as well as destroying 15 booby-trapped vehicles belonging to ISIS members,” Jawdat added.

Federal Police announces killing 232 militants, liberating 25% of Fallujah - Iraqi News
Federal Police Chief Raed Shaker Jawdat said in a statement, a copy of which was obtained by Iraqi News, “The Federal Police troops managed during the last phase of Fallujah liberation operations to liberate 25 percent of the city,” pointing out that, “The liberated areas are so far al-Khadra, al-Resala, Jubail, Fallujah Dam, Residential Block, Nazim, al-Shuhada, Sewage station and Fallujah Gas Factory.”
(So it's taken this long to "liberate" 25% of Fallujah? ... oh man!)
 
Battle for Fallujah: Iraq retakes government HQ
IS conflict: Iraqi forces 'retake Falluja city hall' - BBC News
Iraqi forces have retaken the main government compound in the centre of Fallujah from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group, top commanders say.

The government lost control of Fallujah in 2014, months before ISIL took Iraq's second largest city, Mosul, and swept across large parts of the country.

"The counterterrorism service and the rapid response forces have retaken the government compound in the centre of Fallujah," the operation's overall commander, Lieutenant-General Abdulwahab al-Saadi, told AFP on Friday.

The Iraqi flag is now raised on top of the building, symbolising government control.
 
ISIS flees Fallujah as army now controls 70% of the city
Iraqi army seizes hospital, jails as military ops continue in Fallujah
--Military operations against remaining Islamic State (ISIS) militants in the liberated town of Fallujah are ongoing and late on Saturday three secret ISIS jails were broken up and a main hospital was recaptured in the embattled town.

According to a statement issued by Iraqi Terror Combat Forces, three secret prisons were found by the forces and a main hospital in downtown Fallujah was seized. The hospital was, however, destroyed after ISIS set it on fire upon their retreat from the area.

During the operation to take the hospital, Iraqi soldiers entered the building slowly, fearing that the militants would use patients as human shields, Brig. Gen. Haider al-Obeidi told the Associated Press, adding that they did not find any patients inside.
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Friday evening, Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi spoke on national TV from the joint command center, congratulating the troops on their victories.

"We promised to liberate Fallujah, and it has returned to the embrace of the nation," he said.

("returned to the embrace of the nation" ? :fp: )
 
PressTV-Iran hails Iraq 'bravery' in Fallujah
Iranian Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani has hailed the “brave and brilliant” victory of the Iraqi troops against Daesh Takfiris in liberating the strategic western city of Fallujah from the grips of the terrorist group.

In a congratulatory message to Iraqi Parliament Speaker Salim al-Jabouri on Saturday, Larijani said the victory made by security forces and fighters from Popular Mobilization Units is the result of national unity and solidarity against terrorist and extremist groups.

He expressed hope that national unity among Iraqi people and all political groups and factions would lead to the ultimate defeat of the nation’s enemies.

Larijani also hoped that total security and welfare would be established in a united and consolidated Iraq.

(As the Iran Shia milita were involved and Baghdad is run by Shia politicians, the Iranians want the Iraqi state to stay together.)
 
Isis has lost Fallujah (next stop Mosul)

Witnesses say that Isis was announcing by loudspeakers that everybody could leave, leading 6,000 families to depart on Thursday alone. Two bridges over the Euphrates River were opened, allowing people to get away from the city centre.

But displacement camps have been overwhelmed. The former mayor of Fallujah before the Isis takeover, Issa al-Issawi, who now resides outside the city said: "We don’t know how to deal with this large number of civilians."

The exodus of people from the city was also enabled by Isis fighters suddenly retreating from important checkpoints inside Fallujah witnesses told the Norwegian Refugee Council.

The nature of this retreat is important because it could mean that Isis leaders have decided not to risk suffering devastating casualties among their experienced fighters by resisting to the last man in the face of an attack backed by US-led airstrikes which was bound to win in the end.
Iraqi high-ranking army officer killed in ISIS shelling south of Fallujah - Iraqi News
An informed military source in Anbar Province said on Saturday, that the commander of the Commando Regiments of the army’s First Division had been killed in a rocket attack by ISIS south of Fallujah.

According to information shared by the source, and obtained by Iraqi News, it was stated, “ISIS shelled an army force in the area of al-Shuhada, south of Fallujah, by a long-range missile, killing the commander of the Commando Regiments of the army’s First Division Lt. Col. Hashim Ismail and wounding four soldiers.”
 
Seems like things are n't quite over ... ISIS fighting back in northern Fallujah
Iraqi forces have control of around fifty percent of Fallujah and fighting is ongoing in the northern part of the town, according to a Rudaw reporter.

The Iraqi army is locked in fierce battles with Islamic State militants in the northern part of the city, said Rudaw’s correspondent at the scene, Bahman Hassan. About half of the city, the southern side, has been reclaimed from the group but the northern half is still held by ISIS, he estimated.

ISIS has been defending itself with the few weapons remaining in their possession, Hassan added.

An Iraqi army commander, speaking with Rudaw, said that most of the streets and alleys of the town have been wired with bombs.

"ISIS has bombed the majority of the streets and alleys of Fallujah but the Iraqi counter-terror forces were able to clear the Fallujah Hospital and the Iraqi army cleared the industrial neighborhood of the militants," said Lieutenant General Abdulwahab al-Saadi, general commander of the Fallujah offensive, adding "advances into Muzafin [neighborhood] are ongoing."

Out of fear of coalition airstrikes, Saadi explained, ISIS has dug trenches for cover which have multiple exits.

Another army commander inside Fallujah was more optimistic about the army’s progress, telling Rudaw that the Iraqi army's missions were successfully accomplished in Fallujah.

"Things were going according to plan and, by hitting designated targets in the town, ISIS terrorists were eliminated. We obtained victory. In this light, I congratulate the Iraqi people," said Brig Gen. Satar Jabbar.

The Iraqi army entered downtown Fallujah on Friday morning, raising the Iraqi national flag over the main government complex and claiming to have liberated 70% of the city.

“Iraqi forces are now in the center of the city. They had not been there since the beginning of 2014,” said Commander Brig. Haidar al-Obeidi of the Iraqi special forces on Friday.

Fallujah: Anti-ISIL drive displaces 30,000 more Iraqis
More than 300 Iraqi soldiers and fighters from Shia militias known as the Popular Mobilisation Units were killed during the last two days of fighting. The Iraqi army claims it killed more than 500 ISIL fighters during the assault.
 

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