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SOUTHWEST ASIA(ENEWSPF)July 17, 2017 U.S. and coalition military forces continued to attack the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria yesterday, conducting 31 strikes consisting of 51 engagements, Combined Joint Task Force Operation Inherent Resolve officials reported today.

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

Strikes in Syria

In Syria, coalition military forces conducted 22 strikes consisting of 34 engagements against ISIS targets:

Strikes in Iraq

In Iraq, coalition military forces conducted nine strikes consisting of 17 engagements against ISIS targets:

July 15 Strikes

Additionally, 14 strikes were conducted in Syria and Iraq on July 15 that closed within the last 24 hours:

Part of Operation Inherent Resolve

These strikes were conducted as part of Operation Inherent Resolve, the operation to destroy ISIS in Iraq and Syria. The destruction of ISIS targets in Iraq and Syria also further limits the groups ability to project terror and conduct external operations throughout the region and the rest of the world, task force officials said.

The list above contains all strikes conducted by fighter, attack, bomber, rotary-wing or remotely piloted aircraft; rocket-propelled artillery; and some ground-based tactical artillery when fired on planned targets, officials noted.

Ground-based artillery fired in counterfire or in fire support to maneuver roles is not classified as a strike, they added. A strike, as defined by the coalition, refers to one or more kinetic engagements that occur in roughly the same geographic location to produce a single or cumulative effect.

For example, task force officials explained, a single aircraft delivering a single weapon against a lone ISIS vehicle is one strike, but so is multiple aircraft delivering dozens of weapons against a group of ISIS-held buildings and weapon systems in a compound, having the cumulative effect of making that facility harder or impossible to use. Strike assessments are based on initial reports and may be refined, officials said.

The task force does not report the number or type of aircraft employed in a strike, the number of munitions dropped in each strike, or the number of individual munition impact points against a target.

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The devastation from the battle to retake Mosul from Islamic State militants is underscored in an image from Tuesday. The nearly nine-month fight culminated in a crescendo of destruction.

The devastation from the battle to retake Mosul from Islamic State militants is underscored in an image from Tuesday. The nearly nine-month fight culminated in a crescendo of destruction.

After defeat of militants, a grim search for bodies in Iraq

MOSUL, Iraq The streets of Mosuls Old City are littered with bodies, tangled between shattered stones and remnants of the lives they left behind.

In the baking summer heat, exhausted rescue crews are now sifting through the debris of the toughest battle against the Islamic State group in what became its final redoubt in the city.

As Iraqi ground troops, U.S.-led coalition jets and Islamic State militants pulverized the Old Citys winding maze of streets, thousands of civilians were caught in the crossfire.

But the area is now deserted. Its inhabitants evacuated to houses, camps or prison cells across the province in recent months.

A week after Iraqi officials declared victory in Mosul, all that remains in the Old City is rubble and unknown hundreds of bodies.

Aid groups say that thousands of civilians were killed in the nine-month offensive. A final death toll is unlikely to ever be known, robbing families of answers and a grave for their grief.

Across western Mosul, hundreds of families are still waiting for news. Others know exactly where their loved ones were killed but are still unable to reach them.

On Friday, Sumaya Sarhan, 48, waited in the rescue workers sun-parched yard for her brothers remains, three months after the air strike that killed him.

We lived opposite and tried so many times to get him out. But it was too dangerous, there was too much fighting. Today, I finally saw him pulled from the rubble.

The task of cutting bodies from their homes in this, the most devastated swath of the city, has fallen to a 25-man civil defense unit with one bulldozer, a forklift truck and a single vehicle to carry the corpses.

They have found hundreds of people suffocated under the ruins of their homes. Then, there are those the Islamic State shot as they tried to flee, their bodies left to rot as a message to anyone else who might attempt to escape.

Mosuls Old City had more than 5,000 buildings, many of them high-ceilinged houses built around courtyards. Almost a third were damaged or destroyed during the final three weeks of fighting, according to the United Nations.

Across the entire city, which had a population of almost 2 million before the Islamic State arrived, satellite imagery shows battle scars or total destruction across more than 10,000 buildings. Although life has returned to the relatively less damaged eastern districts, the infrastructure in the west has been devastated.

Louisa Loveluck is a Washington Post writer.

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After defeat of militants, a grim search for bodies in Iraq - SFGate

JULY 9, 2017

Iraqi Military Forces

Launched strikes on an operating base belongs to ISIS in the vicinity of Zoya village in Salah Al-Din.

Liberated Mousl Al-Qadimah area.

Found and cleared improvised fighting vehicles, SIEDs, platforms of Kornet missile, and IEDs in Mosul Al-Qadimah area, Malayeen, and Tal Asfuk villages in Mosul.

Popular Mobilization Forces Repelled an ISIS attack on Hatra city in Mosul, and Al-Ush in Salah Al-Din.

ISIS Killed dozens of civilians in Telafar city in Mosul.

JULY 10, 2017

Iraqi Military Forces

Launched strikes on a convoy of ISIS on an agricultural road in the east side of Shirqat city in Salah Al-Din.

Released 3 Yazidi girls from ISIS in Mosul city. Popular Mobilization Forces Repelled an ISIS attack in Tal Asfuk village in Mosul.

Launched missiles on an ISIS gathering near Ayn Al-Bayda city in Salah Al-Din ISIS Executed 7 children in revenge of their parents for trying to escape in Telafar city in Mosul.

6 displaced people killed by an IED explosion in Hamrin Mountain in Salah Al-Din.

JULY 11, 2017

Iraqi Military Forces

Launched strikes on ISIS in Al-Maydan, Shawan, and Telafar city in Mosul.

Found 12 bodies that belong to the civilians in Mosul Al-Qadimah.

Released six Yazidi girls form ISIS in Mosul city. Popular Mobilization Forces Repelled an ISIS attack in Hatra city in Mosul. ISIS Launched shells on Al-Murr village in Mosul

JULY 12, 2017

Iraqi Military Forces

Launched strikes on ISIS in Hatra city, Tal Zalat and Imam Al-Gharbi villages in Mosul.

Released 20 Yazidi women near Dijla River in Mosul.

Repelled an ISIS attack on Tall Zalat and Adaya in Mosul. Peshmarga Forces repelled an ISIS attack on Al-Muthalath village in Mosul. Popular Mobilization Forces Released three peshmarga members that they arrested them previously in Bashik outskirt in Mosul.

Repelled an ISIS attack in Jurn village in Mosul.

JULY 13, 2017

Iraqi Military Forces

Clashed with ISIS in Imam Al-Gharbi village, near Dijla River in Mosul Al-Qadimah area, which injured 2 members of Iraqi Military Forces.

Released 4 Yazidi females near Dijla River in Mosul Al-Qadimah. Popular Mobilization Forces

Kidnapped 10 civilians; one of them is a member of Peshmarga Forces, in Tooz city in Salah Al-Din.

Raided an operating base that belongs to ISIS in south west of Ishaqi village in Salah Al-Din.

ISIS

Launched two Katyosha rockets on an electric office in Faisaliya area in Mosul, which injured 3 employees from the office.

JULY 14, 2017

Iraqi Military Forces

Launched airstrikes on ISIS in Mosul Al-Qadimah and in the junction between Zab and Sadira, Balad in Salah Al-Din.

Clashed with ISIS in their positions in Mosul Al-Qadimah.

Released three Yazidi girls in Abar in Mosul.

Popular Mobilization Forces

Liberated the train rail in Imam Al-Gharbi in Mosul

JULY 15, 2017

Peshmarga Forces

Released one of their units from ISIL's capture in Tooz Khurmato in Salah Al-Din.

Popular Mobilization Forces

Released four civilians in Al-Teen in Salah Al-Din.

ISIS

Executed a number of civilians, Clan Mobilization Forces, and Security Forces in Al-Salman village in Salah Al-Din.

Took eleven women to the market and sold them in Imam Gharbi village in Mosul.

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ERBIL, Kurdistan Region Sectarian tensions in Iraqs Babil province are high where officials report Hashd al-Shaabi forces have threatened to kill Sunni Arabs residents in the north of the province if they do not the area within 24 hours. The Shiite force has denied the accusations, calling them baseless. The militias belonging to the Hasayeeb, Khurasani, Imam Ali and the Hizbullah have circulated leaflets in some areas of north Babil in which they have set 24 hours for the Sunni Arabs of these areas to vacate their houses and leave their areas or be killed, an official from the Babil police said.

An MP with the Iraqi Forces Union issued a statement detailing the ongoing sectarian tensions in Babil, south of Baghdad.

The Sunni Arabs of some of the areas in north Babil always face sectarian campaigns by organizations. Over the past three years, nearly 1,000 of them have been kidnapped. Hundreds of others were killed. Four days ago, 15 of them were abducted and their fate is still unknown. In addition, 100,000 IDPs are prevented from returning to their places which were liberated three years ago, Ahmed Salmani said in his statement. The objective behind these campaigns is to change the demography of these areas, he alleged.

A spokesperson for the Hasayeeb Ahli Haq, one of the Shiite militias accused of issuing the threats, dismissed the accusations as an attempt to stir up trouble. This information is groundless, Jawad Talibawi told Rudaw. The purpose of these rumors is to destabilize the situation and accuse groups within the Hashd al-Shaabi.

He said that his troops support the security forces and any decisions are made by the military commanders.

The decision on the returning of IDPs to their areas is vested with [Prime Minister] Abadi, and this question is more political than military. The parliament, the Iraqi government, and the commander-in-chief of the armed forces are the ones who will make a decision on the returning of the IDPs. And we will welcome such a decision, Tallibawi added. Salmani called on Abadi to take responsibility for protecting the civilians of these areas and to commence an investigation into the allegations.

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NEW DELHI: Thirty-nine Indians abducted in Iraq by the ISIS three years ago may be lodged in a jail in Badush in northwest Mosul, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj said, and added that her Iraqi counterpart may bring fresh information about them when he visits India on July 24.

Swaraj on Sunday briefed family members of the abducted men, who are mostly from Punjab, about information gathered by the Minister of State for External Affairs, VK Singh, who was sent to the Gulf nation after its Prime Minister announced the liberation of Mosul+ from the dreaded terror group ISIS.

Swaraj said an authoritative official quoting intelligence sources told Singh the Indians were deployed at a hospital construction site and then shifted to a farm. They were then taken to a jail in Badush in West Mosul, where fighting between the ISIS and Iraqi forces is still on.

Ministers of state VK Singh and MJ Akbar and senior ministry officials were also present at the meeting with the family members.

She said Iraqi Foreign Minister Ibrahim Al Jaafari is scheduled to visit India on July 24 and may bring updated information about the missing men.

"East Mosul has been completely freed from ISIS and now buildings are being sanitised and authorities are not allowing civilians to go there as there may be bombs and other explosives," she said.

In West Mosul, fighting is still carrying on, she said.

"An official who quoted intelligence sources told Gen Singh that they were deployed for a hospital construction and then in a farm. From there, they were sent to a jail in Badush. There has been no information since then," Swaraj told reporters.

There would be fresh information once the fighting in Badush was over, she added.

Swaraj said she had spoken to foreign ministers of all the countries in the region which could help India in locating the men.

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39 abducted Indians in Iraq may be in jail: Sushma Swaraj - Times of India