Control of Terrain Map: August 25, 2016

Iraqi Kurdish Map Legend KDP Peshmerga Control Zone Dahuk Populated areas under KDP Peshmerga control Rabia Dam PUK Peshmerga Control Zone Sinjar Qandil Populated areas under PUK Mosul Arbil Peshmerga control Gwer Iraqi Kurdistan regions under Qayyarah Makhmur Peshmerga control Qayyarah Air eld West Populated areas under PKK/YPG control Suleimaniyah Sharqat Hawija Populated areas under KDP Peshmerga/PKK/YPG control Bashir Populated areas under ISF control Tuz Khurmato with KDP Peshmerga and Sunni Camp Speicher tribal ghters PUK Peshmerga-held location KDP Peshmerga-held location Qaim Joint ISF-KDP Peshmerga-held location Baghdadi Muqdadiyah Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) Balad Base Headquarters Site Asad Base Camp Taji Mixed PUK Peshmerga-Militia Hit Garma Waleed Controlled Location Rutba Mixed KDP Peshmerga/ PKK/YPG-held location Taqadum Base Trebil Jurf al-Sakhr al- al- Nukhaib al-Diwaniyah al- al-

al- al-Nasriyah

Basra Iraq Map Legend ISF Control Zone ISF and heavy presence of Iraqi Shi’a militias Joint ISF - Sunni Tribal Fighters Control Zone Populated areas under ISF control ISIS Control Zone ISF-held location

ISIS-held location 100km ISF-held military base By Emily Anagnostos and ISW Iraq Team ©2016 by the Institute for the Study of War e Iraqi Security Forces (ISF) and tribal ghters recaptured the Waleed Border Crossing on August 3, on the southern Syrian-Iraqi border. ISIS resisted the loss of the Iraqi border crossing and launched attacks on August 8 and 9 against both Waleed and the Syrian crossing at Tanf, which is held by U.S.-backed New Syrian Army. Tribal ghters repelled the attack. ISW is thus changing the status of Waleed to an ISF-held location.

Peshmerga forces aliated with the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) launched clearing operations southeast of Mosul on August 14 and 15, retaking at least twelve villages in the Ninewa Plains. e operation launched from the Khazar Axis, between Mosul and Arbil, and moved south towards the Peshmerga-held town of Gwer. ISW is thus changing the status of this area from contested to a populated area under KDP Peshmerga control.

e ISF retook the city of Qayyarah on August 25, following more than a month of operations to secure terrain south of the city and between the city and Qayyarah airbase, which security forces recaptured on July 9. e ISF breached the city limits on August 23, encountering limited resistance in the southern neighborhoods. e ISF secured the city center and government complex on August 24, as operations continued towards the northern side of the city. Joint Operations Command announced full control over the city on August 25. ISW is thus changing the status of Qayyarah to an ISF-held location.