29 June 2015

In the western township of Al-Qaim on the border with Syria, Coalition warplanes launched a series of air strikes on a number of areas there, including Akashat and its phosphate plant, where large numbers of ISIL gunmen had gathered for a series of meetings. A security source has reported that dozens of the gunmen were killed.

In Ramadi, security forces are reinforcing their stranglehold on the city’s perimeter areas, while clashes were continuing in the Eastern Husayba and Juwayba to the east of the city. Coalition warplanes and Iraqi gun ships struck a number of ISIL positions, killing at least 13 gunmen. More than 800 additional tribal volunteers have been deployed to support the security forces.

An Anbar Council source has reported today that the Council has asked the Prime Minister to withdraw the People’s Mobilization forces that breached discipline by setting fire to a number of homes in the Nukhaib area, including the home of Sheikh Mit’ib Al-Unaizi, a tribal leader of the Unizza tribe. Residents have been accusing the force members of also setting fire to private vehicles in those areas.

In Fallujah, the General Hospital announced today that 9 residents, including 3 women and 4 children, were killed and 11 others were wounded by the ongoing random bombardment exchanges between security forces along the city’s perimeter and the ISIL gunmen holding the city. Central and northern residential districts were hit.

In Garma, The ‘Garma Dawn’ military operation to liberate the town center was launched last night and clashes have been continuing throughout the day. But security forces have not yet been able to penetrate into and seize the town center.

In Amiriyat Al-Fallujah, mortar and rocket fire during the night has struck the town’s residential districts, causing extensive structural damage.

24 June 2015

Iraqi aircraft have attacked number of positions today in the Akashat area of Al-Qaim township on the Syrian border. Sources have reported that at least 47 ISIL gunmen were killed in the raids.

The attacks were made following intelligence reports of special gatherings and meetings in that area.

In Ramadi, military operations are still ongoing along the city’s perimeter. Security forces have today killed at least 11 gunmen in the eastern and northeastern outskirts of Ramadi.

Iraqi air support has also struck targets and positions in central Ramadi; a number of civilians were killed by mortar fire striking the city’s central marketplace.

In Fallujah, heavy bombardment has again struck a number of the city’s residential districts. This was part of the ongoing random bombardment exchanges between security forces on the city’s perimeter and the ISIL gunmen holding the city. A General Hospital source reported today that 7 residents have been killed and 19 wounded by the bombardments.

In Garma, fierce clashes are still going on and heavy bombardment has targeted the town’s central districts and the Sichir area. Six civilians have been killed and 3 wounded.

In Baghdadi, strong calls have been made bylocal residents to the central government for urgent food aid, following ISIL’s seizure of the town’s perimeter and the blockade it has imposed that has been preventing the arrival of any relief aid.

Meanwhile thousands of families are experiencing severe living conditions in Bzaybiz, Amiriyat Al-Fallujah, and Khalidiyah encampments.

05 February 2015

A number of mortar rounds have struck Haditha township, killing 3 children and wounding 4 other people, according to a local council source.

In the Hawz district of southern Ramadi, a military operation has killed at least 13 ISIL gunmen. Anbar Operations has reported that security forces have pushed into the district.

A military operation in Birwana, across the river from Haditha, has spread into the areas adjacent to Baghdadi. Security forces killed 7 ISIL gunmen.

Coalition warplanes have attacked targets in the Akashat area on the Iraqi-Syrian border at Al-Qaim. Reports indicate that 6 gunmen commanders were killed in the attack.

In eastern Ramadi, a broad military operation in a number of the sector's districts around Shjariya toward Khalidiya and on toward Habbaniya. An Anbar Police source has confirmed that security forces are making significant advances, somewhat delayed by the ubiquitous mines and explosive devices planted by the gunmen.

In Fallujah, a General Hospital source has reported that 4 residents have been killed and 16 wounded by the ongoing bombardment exchanges between the gunmen holding the city and security forces around its perimeter.

Confirmed reports out of Anbar Operations show that coalition warplanes have carried out strikes in Garma and its environs. Latest reports show that at least 3 ISIL gunmen were killed, including an ISIL commander in the Garma area.

In Amiriyat Al-Fallujah, indiscriminate mortar fire on the township's residential districts is continuing for the fourth consecutive day, wounding at least 2 residents.

Meetings were held today between the Anbar local government led by Governor Suhaib Al-Rawi, and Prime Minister Hayder Al-Abadi in Baghdad. The Governor's media office says that positive results were achieved, including the central government's approval for the import of U.S. weaponry into Anbar Province via the Baghdad Central Government's channels. A separate meeting with the Interior Minister discussed the disbursement of security forces' salaries in Anbar.

04 February 2015

In Garma, the Anbar Operations command reports that coalition warplanes scored direct hits on ISIL gunmen concentrations in the area, killing at least 23 of them. Further coalition strikes in the Saqlawiya area west of Fallujah have also killed 9 ISIL gunmen.

Warplanes have also launched strikes against targets in Akashat on the Iraqi-Syrian border at dawn today. Security sources are reporting that 9 ISIL military commanders were killed in the area.

In Haditha, security forces have been able to secure all four of the town's fronts, especially in the Birwana area in the township's southern sector, where security forces clashed with ISIL gunmen attempting to penetrate into the township from the direction of Ana. An ISIL suicide bomber driving a tractor-trailer from the Ana area toward Haditha, but Iraqi air units struck the target before it could rich a military barracks at the town's southern entrance.

In Ramadi, a statement has confirmed that the Shjariya area northeast of Ramadi is now almost totally under the security forces' control. The disarming and removal of explosives devices planted by ISIL gunmen in the area's residential homes are continuing.

Ramadi has been relatively calm today, including in the southern and southwestern districts. Security forces are still erecting concrete barriers between the areas under their control and those controlled by ISIL.

In Fallujah, the general hospital has reported today that 2 residents have been killed and 6 wounded by the now-daily indiscriminate bombardment exchanges. 

03 February 2015

The Anbar Operations Command has announced today that coalition warplanes have successfully carried out a strike on Akashat on the Iraqi-Syrian border, killing the ISIL western Anbar 'Emir' , Abu Hajir Al-Shimmary, and six of his companions who were on their way from Syrian territory through the border post at Al-Qaim.

In Baghdadi, Col. Sha'aban Al-Obaidi, the SWAT commander in the township, has announced that coalition warplanes have carried out several strikes on the Jubba area of the township, killing at least 23 ISIL gunmen in the western and northwestern sectors of Baghdadi.

In Nu'aymiya, south of Fallujah, coalition warplanes carried out a number of missions, killing 9 ISIL gunmen. The strikes have foiled ISIL's plans to advance on both Ramadi and Fallujah and their surrounding areas.

In Ramadi, the Operations commander, Qassim Al-Dulaimy, announced that a wide military operation is due to be launched in the areas around the city within the next few hours. The operation is to complement the ongoing military operation in Shjariya, northeast of Ramadi. Al-Dulaimy added that the province is relatively calm, but some districts in its southern sector are still experiencing running battles between security forces and ISIL gunmen.

In Baghdadi, there are reports that 2 children have died as a result of the severe shortages caused by the embargo imposed on the town by the gunmen. The townspeople are calling for immediate action by the central government to deliver relief aid to Baghdadi.

In Fallujah, a General Hospital source has reported that 2 residents have been killed and 9 wounded by the continuing indiscriminate bombardment exchanges.

In Amiriyat Al-Fallujah, at least 10 mortar rounds have indiscriminately struck residential districts in the town.

01 February 2015

Coalition warplanes have launched a number of strikes on targets in western Anbar; 6 ISIL gunmen were killed in the Al-Qaim area, including one of ISIL's field commanders in the western region of Akashat near the Iraqi-Syrian border.

Coalition warplanes have also been in action near the town of Birwana in Haditha township. An Anbar Operations statement says that a number of ISIL gunmen were killed by the strikes.

In Baghdadi, the SWAT commander, Col. Shahban Al-Obaidi, has stated that security forces supported by tribal fighters have established control over most of the areas of Baghdadi where it has been announced that an aerial bridge has been established between the capital, Baghdad, and the Ayn Al-Asad Base that will serve to airlift foodstuffs to the western areas of Baghdadi and Haditha township and its surrounding areas.

In Ramadi, a major security forces attack has enabled these forces to penetrate into the residential districts of the city's southern sector. Security sources say that at least 13 gunmen were killed in the fighting, and 2 others (snipers) were captured. The forces have also erected concrete barriers between the areas they have liberated and the areas still under ISIL control.

In Fallujah, an elevated casualty count from the city's general hospital indicates that 9 residents have been killed and 44 wounded by the continuing mortar-fire exchanges between security forces on the city's outskirts and ISIL forces holding the city. Many of the city's central and northern residential districts were hit by mortar fire.

In the Garma area, airstrikes have killed at least 53 ISIL gunmen, according to  a senior officer of the 1st Division operating in the area.

In Amiriyat Al-Fallujah, the local council leader has confirmed today that the town is surrounded by ISIL gunmen who have continued to shell districts and buildings in the town whose security situation is extremely grim.

22 January 2015

It was announced today that Abu Anas Al-Samarra'ee, the ISIL commander in western Anbar, was killed in a coalition airstrike on an ISIL convoy making its way from Syrian territory toward Anbar Province in Akashat. A number of his bodyguards were also killed and at least 8 vehicles destroyed by the strikes.

An Anbar Operations security source has announced that fierce clashes have resulted in the liberation of the Khashba area between Haditha and Ana townships, and that at least 23 ISIL gunmen were killed in the fighting.

The Bu-Ghanim tribe in northeastern Anbar has warned the central and local governments and threatened that it will withdraw from the fight against ISIL unless its fighters are supplied with arms and ammunition within five hours. This follows the capture by ISIL gunmen of large areas in the region who killed at least 23 local police personnel and tribal fighters.

Also today, coalition warplanes targeted an ISIL military convoy in the Sihil area northeast of Baghdadi. The convoy was on its way to the town of Alous that was liberated yesterday by security forces, and at least 53 of the gunmen were killed and all of the convoy's vehicles, including a booby-trapped fuel tanker that was to be detonated in the attack on Alous, were destroyed.

In Ramadi, Anbar security sources have stated that the situation in Ramadi is at its most dangerous it has been for more than a year and that ISIL forces are threatening to overrun the city, unless the Defense Ministry and the central and local governments intervene by supplying the Province's forces with the arms and ammunition they need to continue the fight against ISIL. The city has sustained more than one attack during the past two days aimed at seizing the provincial capital.

In Fallujah, the general hospital has reported that 4 residents have been killed and 11 wounded in the ongoing indiscriminate bombardment exchanges between security forces controlling the city's perimeter and the ISIL gunmen holding the city.

Security forces have turned back an ISIL attack on Garma, while coalition warplanes have killed at least 33 gunmen in the town and its surrounding areas.