Security In Iraq Jun 1-7, 2019

(Iraqi News)

June was the third month of the Islamic State’s new Revenge of the Levant campaign. During the first week of the month however the number of security incidents dipped. The types of attacks conducted showed that the insurgents were still aimed at ramping up pressure upon the locals and security forces.

There was a total of 26 incidents reported in Iraq from June 1-7. That was down from 43 the last full week of May. It was still above most of the weekly totals from March and April when the number of attacks averaged in the teens. Diyala with 7 and Anbar with 8 had the most attacks during the week.

Security Incidents In Iraq By Province

Province	Jun 1-7
Anbar	8
Babil	1
Baghdad	3
Diyala	7
Kirkuk	3
Ninewa	4
TOTALS	26

Casualties In Iraq By Province

Province	Jun 1-7
Anbar	7 (1K, 6W)
Babil	-
Baghdad	28 (9K, 19W)
Diyala	9 (6K, 3W)
Kirkuk	10 (2K, 8W)
Ninewa	9 (1K, 8W)
TOTALS	63 (19K, 44W)

There was a total of 63 casualties during the start of June. That included 19 deaths made up of 2 Hashd al-Shaabi, 8 civilians and 9 Iraqi Security Forces (ISF) and another 44 wounded of 9 Hashd, 13 civilians and 22 ISF. Baghdad with 28 had the most casualties.

Anbar had 8 incidents spread across the breadth of the province. That included five gun battles with the security forces in Rutba in the west by Jordan, and Hit and Baghdadi in the east. Three suicide bombers were also killed in Qaim in the west by Syria and Amiriya Fallujah in the east. Attacks have gone up and down in Anbar. There were only 7 attacks total in May for instance. Anbar appears to be a secondary front for the Islamic State right now.

Baghdad has largely been ignored by IS, and there were only 3 incidents during the week, but one was a major attack. On June 4 the security forces received a report about an IED in the Tarmiya district in the outer north of the province. When they arrived to investigate militants opened fire upon them with snipers in an ambush followed by an IED. In total 6 members of the ISF were killed and 15 wounded. At the end of the week there was another attack in that district this time on civilians that left 2 dead and 4 injured. Tarmiya used to be a hotbed of insurgent activity. March was the last time there was a similar incident in that district. In order for IS to remain relevant it has to return to the capital to challenge the government and to raise more money.

Diyala, Kirkuk, Ninewa, and Salahaddin are the base for the Islamic State’s rebuilding. There were no incidents reported in Salahaddin. In Diyala there were 7 including a kidnapping, and two checkpoints attacked. One of those attacks occurred in Abu Saida in the west where there are reports of locals fleeing because of IS activity. Kirkuk had just three incidents including another assault upon a security point. Finally, there were 4 incidents in Ninewa. A car bomb was discovered and dismantled in Mosul. There have been regular attacks on the city showing that the militants still have access to this major urban area. Two fields were also burned and IEDs set nearby to kill and maim those attempting to put the blazes out. This is a new tactic IS started last month. They are attempting to enforce taxes upon the farmers and drive some out so that the insurgents can take over their villages. Gaining towns is important because it allows training camps to be established so that IS can rebuild its cadres.

Islamic State Activity in Iraq 2018-19

Anbar	Shootings (Totals)	IEDs/ Sticky Bombs (Totals)	Gun Battles	Attacks on Checkpoints	Attacks on Mukhtars/ Sheikhs	Kidnappings	Suicide Bombers	Car Bombs
2018 Totals	45	67	13	4	6	5	7	3
Jan 2019	6	4	1	-	2	1	1	1
Feb	10	11	4	1	1	4	-	-
Mar	2	1	-	-	-	-	-	-
Apr	1	8	1	-	-	1	-	1
May	3	3	-	-	1	-	-	2
Jun	5	1	4	-	-	-	-	-
2019 Totals	27	28	10	1	4	6	1	4

Diyala	Shootings (Totals)	IEDs/ Sticky Bombs (Totals)	Gun Battles	Attacks on Checkpoints	Attacks on Mukhtars/ Sheikhs	Kidnappings	Attacks on Towns	Suicide Bombers	Car Bombs
2018 Totals	219	198	47	43	5	13	25	3	1
Jan 2019	21	2	3	8	-	-	1	-	-
Feb	18	2	5	7	-	-	3	-	-
Mar	7	6	1	2	-	-	-	-	-
Apr	13	15	2	4	1	-	1	-	-
May	11	13	3	5	-	-	13 (9 Farms Burned)	-	-
Jun	6	2	-	2	-	1	-	-	-
2019 Totals	76	40	14	28	1	1	18	-	-

Kirkuk	Shootings (Totals)	IEDs/ Sticky Bombs (Totals)	Gun Battles	Attacks on Checkpoints	Attacks on Mukhtars/ Sheikhs	Kidnappings	Attacks on Towns	Suicide Bombers	Car Bombs
2018 Totals	172	182	39	18	10	14	29	9	6
Jan 2019	8	17	-	4	2	3	-	-	1
Feb	9	5	3	-	-	2	1	-	-
Mar	5	11	2	1	2	-	2	-	-
Apr	5	9	3	-	-	-	-	-	-
May	11	18	2	3	1	-	13 (13 Farms Burned)	-	-
Jun	1	2	-	1	-	-	-	-	-
2019 Totals	39	62	10	9	5	5	16	-	1

Ninewa	Shootings (Totals)	IEDs/ Sticky Bombs (Totals)	Gun Battles	Attacks on Checkpoints	Attacks on Mukhtars/ Sheikhs	Kidnappings	Attacks on Towns	Suicide Bombers	Car Bombs
2018 Totals	139	74	43	7	5	6	6	2	3
Jan 2019	6	-	-	-	1	-	-	-	-
Feb	8	3	2	2	-	-	1	-	1
Mar	6	1	3	-	-	-	1	-	1
Apr	6	6	1	-	1	2	2	-	-
May	8	8	1	-	1	2	6 (5 Farms Burned)	-	1
Jun	1	2	-	-	-	-	2 (2 Farms Burned)	-	-
2019 Totals	35	20	7	2	3	4	12	-	3

Salahaddin	Shootings (Totals)	IEDs/ Sticky Bombs (Totals)	Gun Battles	Attacks on Checkpoints	Attacks on Mukhtars/ Sheikhs	Kidnappings	Attacks on Towns	Suicide Bombers	Car Bombs
2018 Totals	110	102	41	18	1	16	4	9	5
Jan 2019	5	5	3	1	-	3	-	-	1
Feb	7	11	3	-	-	2	1	1	-
Mar	3	5	2	-	-	-	-	-	1
Apr	2	2	1	-	-	-	-	-	1
May	8	6	4	1	-	-	6 (5 Farms Burned)	-	-
2019 Totals	25	29	13	2	-	5	7	1	3

(Gun Battles, Attacks on Checkpoints, Attacks on Mukhtars, Attacks on Towns are all subsets of the total number of shootings and IEDs/Sticky Bombs reported)

Suicide-Car Bombs In Iraq 2018-19

Month	Suicide Bombers	Car Bombs	Totals
Jan	7 (1- Diyala, 3 – Baghdad/Baghdad, 3 - Kirkuk)	6 (1- Anbar, 1 – Diyala, 1 – Kirkuk, 1 – Salahaddin, 2 - Babil)	13
Feb	4 (1 – Anbar/Ramadi 1 – Diyala 1 – Kirkuk 1 - Ninewa)	-	4
Mar	2 (1 – Kirkuk/Kirkuk 1 - Salahaddin)	1 (1 – Kirkuk)	3
Apr	4 (1 - Salahaddin 3 – Anbar)	1 (1 – Kirkuk/Kirkuk)	5
May	8 (1 – Diyala 1 - Salahaddin) 2 – Baghdad/1 - Baghdad 4 - Kirkuk)	-	8
Jun		1 (1 – Salahaddin/Tikrit)	1
Jul	1 (1 – Salahaddin/Tikrit)	1 (1 – Kirkuk/Kirkuk)	2
Aug	1 (1 – Salahaddin)	2 (1 – Anbar, 1 – Kirkuk)	3
Sep	6 (1 – Ninewa) 2 – Anbar 3 – Salahaddin)	2 (1 – Kirkuk 1 – Salahaddin)	8
Oct	2 (1 – Anbar/Fallujah 1 – Salahaddin)	3 (1 – Anbar/Fallujah 1 – Kirkuk/Kirkuk 1 - Ninewa)	5
Nov	-	3 (1 – Ninewa/Mosul 2 – Salahaddin/Tikrit)	3
Dec	-	1 (1 – Ninewa)	1
Jan	1 (1 – Anbar)	3 (1 – Anbar 1 – Kirkuk 1 – Salahaddin/Tikrit)	4
Feb	1 (1 – Salahaddin)	1 (1 – Ninewa/Mosul)	2
Mar	-	1 (1 – Ninewa/Mosul)	1
Apr	-	2 (1 – Anbar 1 - Salahaddin)	2
May	1 (1 – Baghdad)	3 (2 – Anbar 1 – Ninewa)	4

Security In Iraq 2018-19

Week	Security Incidents (Total/By IS)	Dead (Total/By IS)	Wounded (Total/By IS)
Jan 1-7	62/60	45	63
Jan 8-14	58/56	58/56	66/63
Jan 15-21	62/59	151	151
Jan 22-28	59/51	140/136	65/63
Jan 29-31	24	21	21
JAN 2018	265/ 250 by IS	417/ 409 by IS (196 Violent Deaths)	366/ 361 by IS
Feb 1-7	58/56	192/141	62/60
Feb 8-14	57	58	91
Feb 15-21	53/52	343	43
Feb 22-28	46/44	38/37	70/68
FEB	214/ 209 by IS	631/ 579 by IS (215 Violent Deaths)	266/ 262 by IS
Mar 1-7	68/64	115/108	79/77
Mar 8-14	52	75	59
Mar 15-21	64/59	165/119	98
Mar 22-28	77/64	210/87	61/60
Mar 29-31	19/18	26/25	34
MAR	280/ 257 by IS	591/ 414 by IS (446 Violent Deaths)	331/ 328 by IS
Apr 1-7	38/34	172/140	27/25
Apr 8-14	60/52	173/136	81/72
Apr 15-21	43/35	63/18	72/70
Apr 22-28	40/31	60/30	39/33
Apr 29-30	12/11	14/11	4
APR	193/ 163 by IS	482/ 335 by IS (236 Violent Deaths)	223/ 204 by IS
May 1-7	45/39	52/43	55/54
May 8-14	55/51	68/46	49
May 15-21	35/32	55/26	80/75
May 22-28	49/46	72/62	51/49
May 29-31	16/13	39/30	15
MAY	200/ 181 by IS	286/ 207 by IS (261 Violent Deaths)	250/ 242 by IS
Jun 1-7	50/44	96/87	29/28
Jun 8-14	67/59	107/47	88
Jun 15-21	40/35	82/28	19
Jun 22-28	45/44	53/38	62
Jun 29-30	17/15	21/16	14
JUN	219/ 197 by IS	359/ 216 by IS (315 Violent Deaths)	212/ 211 by IS
Jul 1-7	50/49	56/52	90
Jul 8-14	42/39	56/47	31
Jul 15-21	50/45	59/42	63
Jul 22-28	29/24	61/53	19/15
Jul 29-31	23/21	25/13	11
JUL	194/ 178 by IS	257/ 207 by IS (212 Violent Deaths)	214/ 210 by IS
Aug 1-7	43/39	49/45	30/29
Aug 8-14	43/42	38	44
Aug 15-21	38/35	24/21	40/37
Aug 22-28	35/31	25/19	61
Aug 29-31	27/24	68/30	43
AUG	186/ 171 by IS	204/ 153 by IS (189 Violent Deaths)	218/ 214 by IS
Sep 1-7	38	44	54
Sep 8-14	48/43	63/55	127
Sep 15-21	44/38	90/74	70
Sep 22-28	36/33	22/17	27/26
Sep 29-30	9/6	19/10	29/25
SEP	175/ 158 by IS	237/ 200 by IS (179 Violent Deaths)	307/ 302 by IS
Oct 1-7	54/49	85/25	92
Oct 8-14	43/41	161/152	41
Oct 15-21	54/50	87/72	35
Oct 22-28	24/23	24/20	53
Oct 29-31	23	10	24
OCT	198/ 186 by IS	367/ 279 by IS (177 Violent Deaths)	245 by IS
Nov 1-7	32/31	75/69	36
Nov 8-14	39/31	111/63	19
Nov 15-21	30/27	51/43	29
Nov 22-28	26/21	35/25	30
Nov 29-30	9/8	4	27
NOV	136/ 118 by IS	276/ 204 by IS (183 Violent Deaths_	141 by IS
Dec 1-7	22/15	21/8	11
Dec 8-14	22	15	22
Dec 15-21	23/21	23/16	17
Dec 22-28	30/28	24/18	37
Dec 29-31	15/14	225/220	4
DEC	112/ 100 by IS	308/ 277 by IS (96 Violent Deaths)	91 by IS
Jan 1-7	32/31	17/10	24
Jan 8-14	32/30	97/94	53
Jan 15-21	22/18	17/11	16/14
Jan 22-28	27/22	36/17	31
Jan 29-31	12	7	6
JAN	114	139	130
Feb 1-7	29/28	76	30
Feb 8-14	24	26	18
Feb 15-21	40	112	12
Feb 22-28	25	36	70
FEB	118	250	130
Mar 1-7	13	22	45
Mar 8-14	19/18	75/10	37
Mar 15-21	12/11	66/37	21/11
Mar 22-28	13/12	8/5	1
Mar 29-31	6	8	7
MAR	61	147	101
Apr 1-7	20	22	13
Apr 8-14	41	28	42
Apr 15-21	17/16	9/8	26
Apr 22-28	19/18	45/10	15
Apr 29-30	2	1	4
APR	99	105	100
May 1-7	18/17	9	17
May 8-14	24	31	41
May 15-21	37/36	62	39
May 22-28	43	39	54
May 29-31	13	16	48
MAY	136/135	162	199
Jun 1-7	26	19	44

Violence By Province Jun 1-7, 2019

Province	Violence
Anbar	8 Incidents 1 Killed 1 ISF 6 Wounded 1 Hashd 2 Civilians 3 ISF 5 Shootings 1 IED 1 Suicide Motorcycle Bomber Killed 2 Suicide Bombers Killed
Babil	1 Incident 1 Shooting
Baghdad	3 Incidents 9 Killed 3 Civilians 6 ISF 19 Wounded 4 Civilians 15 ISF 3 Shootings 1 IED
Diyala	7 Incidents 6 Killed 1 ISF 5 Civilians 3 Wounded 1 Civilian 2 ISF 6 Shootings 2 IEDs
Kirkuk	3 Incidents 2 Killed 2 Hashd 8 Wounded 2 Civilians 6 Hashd 1 Shooting 2 IEDs
Ninewa	4 Incidents 1 Killed 1 ISF 8 Wounded 2 Hashd 2 ISF 4 Civilians 1 Shooting 2 IEDs 1 Car Bomb Dismantled

SOURCES

Al Arabiya, "security forces killed by gunfire in Tarmiya, north of Baghdad," 6/4/19

Baghdad Post, "One person was killed and three others were wounded in an armed attack in Tarmiyah," 6/7/19

- "Tow suicide bombers wearing explosive belts in Amiriya Fallujah," 6/4/19

- "Unknown gunmen assassinate a civilian in the area of Husseiniya Rashidiya north of Baghdad," 6/7/19

Ebraheem, Mohammed, "6 Iraqi security men killed in armed attack in Salahuddin," Iraqi News, 6/4/19

- "Iraqi soldier killed, two wounded in armed attack in northern Baghdad," Iraqi News, 3/19/19

- "Two Islamic State militants killed in gunfight with Iraqi forces in Anbar," Iraqi News, 6/4/19

Al Forat, "Anbar operations: Three terrorists were killed in a tunnel and a fighter was wounded near Hit,' 6/6/19

- "Two were wounded in the crowd during an inspection near Rashad," 6/5/19

Kurdistan 24, "ISIS attack north of Baghdad kills 2 brothers, wounds third: Security," 6/7/19

- "'Terrorist' attack north of Baghdad kills four Iraqi soldiers on Eid: Interior Ministry," 6/4/19

Mamouri, Ali, "Islamic State in Iraq is not over yet," Al Monitor, 6/8/19

Al Mirbad, "Aborted a suicide attack targeting citizens in al-Baghdadi area," 6/5/19

Shafaaq News, "Crushing Daesh organization that tried to attack areas north of Karbala," 6/4/19

Xinhua, "Iraqi officer killed in clash with IS militants in western Iraq," 6/2/19