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Iraqi sources published a video found by an Iraqi soldier in Mosul City on a mobile phone belonging to a dead ISIS fighter.  Follow Iraqi Day 🇮🇶   @iraqi_day Graphic A video found on a dead  # ISIS  militant phone (speaking Turkish) shows how he killed civilians fleeing  # Mosul  and laughs about it. 10:39 PM - 6 Jul 2017     857 857 Retweets     394 394 likes Twitter Ads information and privacy Voices of two ISIS fighters speaking Turkish and bad Arabic can be heard clearly in the video. The ISIS members opened fireand killed a woman that was trying to escape from the ISIS-held part of Mosul. The ISIS members laughed after killing the woman. The video also shows attempting to target children and civilians in the Iraqi Army-held areas. Meanwhile, the Iraqi Army completely isolated ISIS in Al-Qali’at and Al-Shahwan districts as well as the Souk al-Saghir area in Old Mosul. Yesterday, the Iraqi Army found a list of names and

On Friday, Ahrar al-Sham accused Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) of mobilizing fighters against it in strategic areas overlooking the Ahrar al-Sham headquarters in northern Syria. Ahrar al-Sham called for HTS officials to intervene quickly in order to stop attempts to turn the so-called Syrian revolution into an internal fighting. Ahrar al-Sham asserted that it would not attack or participate in any attack against HTS, but it would respond to any threat to its headquarters and important positions, even if it was under the pretext of the support to the expected Turkish intervention. Click to see the full-size image The HTS media official, Imad Eddin Mujahid, said that “the statements of some commanders of Ahrar al-Sham fall within a media attack” and added that any attack against HTS can be described as part of a plot against northern Syria. HTS denied any tensions with the “Al-Wastah Division” in the Bab al-Hawa crossing on the Syrian-Turkish border, and confirmed that the incid

Jaysh Assoud al-Sharkia announced that one of its commanders, Khaled Mahmoud Azeh, was assassinated on Friday in the Nazlat al-Siphon in Al-Dumair town in eastern Qalamoun by a unknown side. Jaysh Assoud al-Sharkia is one of the largest groups supported by the US-led coalition and the assassination came amid the ongoing negootiations with the Syrian government to reach a reconciliation agreement in Eastern Qalamoun. The Syrian Arab Army (SAA) closed the entrances of Jayroud town yesterday after the opposition refused to evacuate the city from the militants and the deployment of the SAA. However, the negotiations are still ongoing between the SAA and local forces, includingJaysh al-Islam, Ahmad al-Adbo Forces and Jaysh Assoud al-Sharkia, while Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) rejects – as usual – any peaceful solution in the area. HTS is believed to be behind the assassination of Azeh in order to thwart the negotiations in the eastern Eastern Qalamoun, where HTS has done it several

Jaysh al-Islam announced that fighters from Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), backed by Free Syrian Army (FSA) members, often from Faylaq al-Rahman, launched an attack on its positions in the Ashari farms in the Eastern Ghouta yesterday and captured the area. Jaysh al-Islam said 7 of its fighters were killed as a result of the attack, and claimed that the attack was in the same time when the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) attacked Ayn Tarma and Jobar. Jaysh al-Islam called on foreign parties to stop supporting HTS and its allies in Syria. Jaysh al-Islam spokesman, Hamzah Birekdar, said that Jaysh al-Islam holds HTS the repercussions of its actions in Eastern Ghouta. It appears that Jaysh al-Islam may attack the HTS soon again. Opposition sources announced that negotiations between Faylaq al-Rahman and Jaysh al-Islam in Eastern Ghouta to exchange of prisoners had failed. Jaysh al-Islam blamed Faylaq al-Rahman for this. Berkdar claimed that there was a lack of response from the other side,

Russia will supply the Syrian Coastal Guard with new patrol boats and other equipment, the Shephard Military News website has reported. According to the report, the delivery of boats will begin in 2017 year and will be completed until 2019. It’s not known what kind of boats it is until now, but it’s believed that Moscow will supply Project 03160 High Speed Patrol Boats. The Project 03160 is one of the world’s most modern patrol boats with a range of 100 nautical miles and a speed of up to 90 km/h. Equipped with a 2,000-hp twin-waterjet power plan, it also has a modern marine radar and several modern electro-optical night-daytime systems. It’s armed with 14.5-mm Uprava-KORD remote-controlled fighting module and 2 7.62mm machine guns. Such boats can be used for counter-terrorism and special operations, or search and rescue operations SAR. Through this step, Russia aims to develop the capabilities of the Syrian Coastal Guard and the Syrian Navy and help them to secure the Syrian

FILE IMAGE: http://www.nrttv.com On Thursday, Turkish security forces arrested 6 members of ISIS terrorist organization in the Turkish state of Gaziantep. According to the Turkish authorities, the ISIS cell was planning to carry out an attack on the ongoing “March for Justice” protest led by the head of the opposition Republican People’s Party Kemal Kjelljard Oglu and his supporters since mid-June. According to the governor of Qaysir City, Salman Kamji, one of the members of the cell rented a minivan from Qaysir City in order to carry out an attack against civilians involved in the protest. During the investigation, one member confessed to plotting to run over the protesters with the minivan. Kamji said that the cell had placed flags of the Justice and Development Party, the ruling party in Turkey, inside the bus with the aim of tensing the political situation in Turkey. Kamji added that Turkish security forces followed the suspect and the persons he contacted with in order

The militants’ “medical” office in Jobar district claimed on Thursday that two men were injured in a chemical weapons attack on Damascene district of Jobar. Several other pro-opposition sources also claimed that the Syrian Army used chemical weapons in its operations in Jobar district and the neighboring Ayn Tarma area. Though, the medical office of Jobar failed to put forth any evidence beyond pictures of supposed victims of those chemical attacks. From its side, the Syrian Army continued its operations in Ayn Tarma capturing a new group of building blocks between Zamalka Bridge, Ahl Al-Safa Mosque, as well as captured Shamini Land Complex. Syrian Arab Air Force warplanes resumed its bombing campaign targeting positions and fortifications manned by Faylaq Al-Rahman and its allied Hayat Tahrir al-Sham terrorist group inside Jobar and Ayn Tarma. Notably, this is the third time the opposition accused government forces of using chemical weapons in eastern Damascus in 10 days. It