Military and security operations continue on all the main axes in Mosul city center and impulsively large to achieve field progress and to reach the important strategic objectives to hinder the movement and the extension of fighters Daesh and targeting their places and their headquarters and their military and combat leaders and all military forms participate in this process seek to achieve the process of homogeneity and cohesion between them in several axes, the most important axis, which has been termed (the old city) and is the responsibility of the federal police force, and rapid deployment and its task to access to the great Mosque Nouri and find a meeting process with the progress carried out by anti-terrorism fighters in a Central axis where the progress has been achieved in number of important residential neighborhoods that Daesh fighters have been pulled out as a result of heavy attacking progress and the use of rockets, mortars, artillery and support of International Air Alliance , the most important are neighborhoods of (Thawra- al-Sihha Tanak), which lead it to a deeper and more presence and control areas of elements Daesh which are the neighborhoods (Al-Najjar –Hayy Al-Rafa’i – al-Islah al-Zerai) and to achieve meeting sought by the advanced troops of the field at the intersection of the Sinjar –Zndjeli area as it constitute an important joint between the neighborhood (Thawra –Mosel al-jadida) on the one hand and on the other hand it is in contact with the old city in its neighborhoods (Bab al- Baidh , Bab al-jedeed -Farouk Street) .
These are the most important features and characteristics that characterize the battle now but the important thing is what are the goals of the international coalition in everything that happens and occur in the vicinity of Mosul city center? Is targeting places and the presence of foreign fighters who began to volunteer and join the fighting with the military and political formations of organizations Daesh and thus became the most important leaders in the field, which oversee and lead the confrontations in residential vital neighborhoods and areas to the city of Mosul.
That was one of the key goals of the international coalition to search for them and target them, and (Rawbet Center for Strategic and Political Studies) could to highlight and monitor all events and targets that have been identified by the leadership of the international coalition and directing harmful strikes to communities and the whereabouts of military leaders and foreign and Arab fighters, as follows:
1. On the date of 19 March 2017, the area of Suq al-Shaareen in the right coast of the Mosul was targeted by bombing that was carried out by the International Air Alliance and led to the killing of six of the most prominent foreign leaders of Daesh and they are:
a. Abd al-Karim, the Russian who was called by (Abu Samir), the military commander of the battalion Tariq ibn Ziyad – Russian nationality.
b.saleh al-Ahmad ( called Abu Mihav) French of Syrian origin.
C. yousef Awni called (Abu-Jamal) -Turkishi Nationality
D, Moroccan Abu daa .
E…Abd ullah Hammoud called (Abu salih) Moroccan nationality
F. Melad Siro called (Abu Hafsa), a British nationality of Algerian origin.
2. On the date of 26 March 2017, it was targeting the headquarters of the leaders of the Daesh in Farooq Street in central Mosul city by aerial bombing of the international coalition aircrafts and led to the deaths of both:
A. Abu Thabit al- Ansari -military Amir of Faruq area.
b.Abu Yahya al-Zahrani – the first responsible for the military line .
c.Abu Omr Badrani – in charge of weapons and ammunition stores
3. On the date of April 4, 2017, an air strike was directed on a gathering of Arab fighters in the neighborhood Tanak, outskirts of Mosul city where it was killed each of the following:
a.Yunis al-Jubouri called ( Abu Hagar al-Arabi) – in charge of Alangemasin Arabs.
B. Athab Mahmoud Taha called (Abu Muhammad) – in charge of child Soldiers (Cubs of the Caliphate).
c.Sabah al-Mawlah called ( Abu- Ous al-Iraqi) in charge of operations of booby-trapping.
4. On the date of April 6, 2017, a missile strike was directed to a site in which a number of Arab fighters are present in a neighborhood of 17 July, the outskirts of Mosul, killing both:
a.The man in charge of battalion of Hawks of caliphate-Saudi nationality .
b. The man in charge of financial affairs of the battalion, Australian nationality.
c.the man in charge of Alangemasin , French nationality.
5. on the date of April 6, 2017. An air strike was diected by aircrafts of international coalition on the headquarters of the presence of the leaders of Daesh in the area of Hawi al- kanisah near the west bank of the Tigris River and led to the deaths of both:
A. the man in charge of the military Caliphate committee, Syrian nationality.
B .the man in charge of Alangemasin battalion, Pakastani nationality. .
C. the man in charge of security battalion, Turkish nationality.
D. the man in charge of transfer of immigrants – mo nationality.
This field monitoring indicates for us several observations including:
1. Many of foreign fighters and from various nationalities are present in the front line to fight and lead confrontations with the military and security Iraqi forces.
2. the leadership of the international coalition seeks to target these foreign fighters being looking for their liquidation and preventing their return to their countries for fear from carrying out terrorist operations inside cities and states to which they belong, or try to win and mislead many young people who are in the center of European countries from the Arab and Islamic origin.
3.To achieve the field goal in the cutting the process of communication between field leaders of elements Daesh and their fighters in front lines facing the advance of military units and to achieve military achievement in preventing their progress and connect them to fight and find a state of frustration among Daesh fighters when targeting their field leaders .
Iraqi studies unit
Translated by : Mudhaffar al-Kusairi
Rawabet Center for Research and Strategic Studies