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Security Strategies for Humanitarian Operations Providing Advice and Assistance to Ngos in Safely and Efficiently Bringing Aid to Those in Need, Where They Need It DR – 18003 – 03 January 2017 Security Strategies for Humanitarian Operations Providing advice and assistance to NGOs in safely and efficiently bringing aid to those in need, where they need it. DR-18003 IRAQ AND SYRIA OPEN SOURCE REPORT Iraq and Syria Open Source Report 03 January 2018 (Editor’s Note – The Iraq and Syria Daily Roll-Up of open source reporting is designed to provide a common understanding of the situation in Iraq and Syria for mid and senior decision makers within the humanitarian community in allocating resources and preparing for future operations in as safe and secure manner as possible. While important from a safety and security stand-point, the Roll-Up is not designed to be a format to discuss low-level informant activity. It is important to understand the geo-political, social, and military trends as well as hot button issues, and the emerging trends that are shaping challenges to security and humanitarian operations on the ground, where the need is most urgent.) Iraq ............................................................................................................................................. 5 Kurdish Parliamentary Elections – ......................................................................................... 5 Rudaw - Commission prepared to hold Kurdistan elections in April ................................. 5 Kurdistan/Nineweh – ............................................................................................................. 6 Rudaw - Rights group reports sectarian killings in post-ISIS Iraq By Rudaw ..................... 6 Rudaw - Abadi: We’ve agreed with KRG to hold technical talks, political dialogue later . 7 Iraqi Oil Report - KRG forced into dire measures, trimming Peshmerga salaries ............. 9 SINJAR - Bas News - International Expert Teams to Document Sinjar Mass Graves ....... 11 EYES ONLY - SINJAR – Iraqi News - Iraqi troops run into 12 mass graves of Yazidis in Sinjar ................................................................................................................................ 11 Kirkuk/Diyala/Salahuddin – ................................................................................................. 12 NRT - Displaced Kurdish Families from Tuz Khurmatu Call for Protection Guarantee .... 12 Iraqi News - PMF spox accuses U.S. of evacuating White Flags militants to safe havens .......................................................................................................................................... 13 Baghdad/Iraq Diplomatic & Economic – .............................................................................. 13 The Baghdad Post - Displaced persons center: All refugee camps in Iraq to be closed in March ............................................................................................................................... 13 LWJ - Top Iraqi-Shiite cleric endorses incorporation of PMF into the state .................... 14 Rudaw - Iraq faces 'new war' – on corruption ................................................................. 15 Anbar/Western Iraq – .......................................................................................................... 17 Iraqi News - IS members infiltrate from Anbar to Babylon to target security personnel: Source .............................................................................................................................. 17 Southern Iraq – .................................................................................................................... 17 TALOS - Tribal clashes north and south of Qurna, and demonstration events reported in Basra ................................................................................................................................. 17 E: [email protected] Page 1 DR-18003 IRAQ AND SYRIA OPEN SOURCE REPORT NRT - Exports from Iraq’s Southern Oilfields Hit Record 3.535 Million BPD In December .......................................................................................................................................... 18 Iraqi Reconciliation and Parliamentary Elections 2018 – .................................................... 18 Musings on Iraq - Maliki-KDP Reconciliation in Iraq ........................................................ 19 ICSR - ICSR Insight – Ruling with Hashd: The Good, the Badr and the Chameleon ......... 19 Humanitarian Concerns & IDPS – ............................................................................................ 21 HC&I Iraq – ........................................................................................................................... 21 UNHCR - Iraq Situation: UNHCR Flash Update - 27 December 2017 ............................... 21 HC&I Syria – ......................................................................................................................... 23 ICRC - Syrian Arab Red Crescent completes evacuation of 29 civilians in critical need of emergency medical care from Eastern Ghouta ............................................................... 23 Naharnet - Merhebi: Syrian Refugees Drop Below 1 Million .......................................... 23 EYES ONLY – HC&I Sahel – ................................................................................................... 24 MINUSMA - Bilan des 16 jours d’activisme contre les violences faites aux femmes et aux filles à Kidal ................................................................................................................ 24 Potential Impact on Europe/US – ............................................................................................ 25 CAR – WEAPONS OF THE ISLAMIC STATE A three-year investigation in Iraq and Syria December 2017 ................................................................................................................ 25 EYES ONLY - Islamic State/Jihadi Announcements – ........................................................... 26 The Syrian Intifada - Islamic State Claims its Switch to Insurgency and Terrorism is Working ........................................................................................................................ 26 SITE - AQ Insiders Distribute Letter from Hamza bin Laden Announcing Death of His Son .......................................................................................................................................... 28 SITE - Pro-IS Group Publishes Article in 5 Languages Inciting for Holiday Attacks, Urging to Attack Churches and Kill Women and Children ........................................................... 29 LWJ - Iran-based jihadist group claims attack on oil pipeline ......................................... 29 TRAC - (Video) al Hayat Media Center Islamic State Nasheed: O DISBELIEVERS OF THE WORLD - 31 December 2017 (featuring Trump, Assad, Putin, Netanyahu, & Macron) .. 30 Jihadology – New statement from Sarayyah Shaykh ‘Umar Ḥadīd – Bayt al-Maqdis: “Our Jihād Continues .. And the Spring Hill Is Like Jerusalem” ................................................ 31 Jihadology – New video nashīd album from al-Qā’idah in the Arabian Peninsula: “Ambassadors of Glory – ‘My Determination’ and ‘The Heart Wept'” ........................... 31 Jihadology – New video message from al-Qā’idah in the Arabian Peninsula’s Shaykh Qāsim al-Raymī: “Explanation of the Book: ‘Summary of War Politics’ By al-Harthamī, Seventh Lesson” ............................................................................................................... 31 E: [email protected] Page 2 DR-18003 IRAQ AND SYRIA OPEN SOURCE REPORT Jihadology – New release from Shaykh Abū Muḥammad al-Maqdisī: “The Heinous Fruits For the Invalidators of the Unicity of God Or Its Diluters” .................................... 31 Jihadology – New release from Hay’at Taḥrīr al-Shām: “If You Were Asked To Go Forth [To Battle], So Go Forth [To Battle]” ................................................................................ 31 Jihadology – New video message from the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan: “Jihādī Process in Badakhshan Province” .................................................................................... 31 EYES ONLY – Tracking Hezbollah/The Iraqi PMF – ............................................................... 31 Small Wars Journal – Shifts in the Demographic Profile of Hezbollah’s Combat Fatalities: What Do They Mean? ...................................................................................................... 32 Figure 1 – Demographic Trend of Hezbollah Martyrs in Syria ..................................... 32 Syria .......................................................................................................................................... 32 EYES ONLY - Syrian War Daily – 1st of January 2018 ....................................................... 32 Figure 2 - Approximate situation in the southern Idlib – northern Hama region ....... 33 Figure 3 - Approximate situation in Harasta, depicting Ahrar al-Sham’s siege on SAA- held parts of ‘Army Armored Vehicle Base’ and Technical Institute ........................... 34 SOHR - With 1939 casualties…December ends with the least monthly death toll during 2017 ................................................................................................................................. 35 Rojava – ................................................................................................................................ 36
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