Security In Iraq Feb 1-7, 2024

Violence in Iraq took a dramatic drop during the first week of February.

 

There was only one security incident reported. That came from the Islamic Resistance which claimed a drone strike on Israel. Attacks on Israel started in January and there have been a total of 8 reported so far.

 

The reason for the lack of attacks was a truce by Kataib Hezbollah announced on January 30. That came after 3 American soldiers were killed by a drone strike in Jordan by the Resistance. Iran reportedly negotiated the deal in the hopes of de-escalating things while Kataib Hezbollah wanted to portray itself as a victim if the U.S. retaliated.

 

That came on February 7 as a US drone strike killed a Kataib Hezbollah commander in Baghdad Wisam Mohammed Sabir al-Saedi. He was accused of planning attacks on US forces. He was also responsible for assassinating members of the protest movement from 2019-20.

 

There were no attacks by the Islamic State during the week. This was a change since the group seemed like it was trying to make a small return. For four out of five weeks from December 15 to January 21 the insurgents carried out four attacks per week. Then the last week of January there was only 1 incident and none during the first week of February. It shows how fragile IS is. It simply doesn’t have the manpower or resources to be any kind of real threat to Iraq anymore.

 

Security Incidents In Iraq By Province

Province	Feb 1-7
Israel	1 Pro-Iran
TOTAL	1 Pro-Iran

 

Casualties In Iraq By Province

Province

Feb 1-7

 

Security In Iraq 2022-23

Week	Security Incidents (Total/By IS)	Dead (Total/By IS)	Wounded (Total/By IS)
JAN 2022	87/41 Pro-Iran	33	59
FEB	42/14 Pro-Iran	10	29
MAR	46/12/1 Pro-Iran	19	21
APR	111/22 Pro-Iran	34	103
MAY	73/13 Pro-Iran	41	51
JUN	40/14 Pro-Iran	7	33
JUL	43/6 Pro-Iran	33	54
AUG	57/7/1 Pro-Iran	24	54
SEP	41/1/3 M	9	64
OCT	28/2/3 M	17	45
NOV	23	10	28
DEC	33/1 Pro-Iran	42	38
JAN 2023	29/4 Pro-Iran	12	15
Feb 1-7	6/2 Pro-Iran	1	5
Feb 8-14	1	-	2
Feb 15-21	4	4	8
Feb 22-28	9/1 Pro-Iran	7	3
FEB	20/3 Pro-Iran	12	18
Mar 1-7	3	10	4
Mar 8-14	2	2	1
Mar 15-21	2	1	3
Mar 22-28	1	2	-
Mar 29-31	1	3	-
MAR	9	18	8
Apr 1-7	5	1	7
Apr 8-14	4	-	1
Apr 15-21	5	3	-
Apr 22-28	2	1	-
Apr 29-30	1	1	-
APR	16	6	8
May 1-7	2	1	1
May 8-14	6	4	3
May 15-21	3	2	6
May 22-28	3	1	3
May 29-31	2	-	3
MAY	15	8	14
Jun 1-7	-	-	-
Jun 8-14	4	7	4
Jun 15-21	2	1	2
Jun 22-28	4	2	4
Jun 29-30	-	-	-
JUN	10	10	10
Jul 1-7	1	-	-
Jul 8-14	3	2	1
Jul 15-21	2	-	1
Jul 22-28	2	-	2
Jul 29-31	3/2 Pro-Iran	-	-
JUL	11/2 Pro-Iran	2	4
Aug 1-7	4	-	4
Aug 8-14	2	1	3
Aug 15-21	2	-	5
Aug 22-28	2	-	2
Aug 29-31	3/1 Pro-Iran	1	9
AUG	13/1 Pro-Iran	2	23
Sep 1-7	1	-	1
Sep 8-14	1	1	-
Sep 15-21	2	-	4
Sep 22-28	1	1	1
Sep 29-30	-	-	-
SEP	5	2	6
Oct 1-7	-	-	-
Oct 8-14	-	-	-
Oct 15-21	7 Pro-Iran	-	-
Oct 22-28	7/5 Pro-Iran	-	8
Oct 29-31	3 Pro-Iran	-	-
OCT	17/15 Pro-Iran	-	8
Nov 1-7	11/9	4	2
Nov 8-14	12/10	-	3
Nov 15-21	6 Pro-Iran	-	8 Amer
Nov 22-28	4 Pro-Iran	-	-
Nov 29-30	2	11	16
NOV	35/29 Pro-Iran	15	29
Dec 1-7	10/8 Pro-Iran	1	9
Dec 8-14	8/6 Pro-Iran	-	2
Dec 15-21	6/2 Pro-Iran	1	2
Dec 22-28	7/6 Pro-Iran	-	3 US
Dec 29-31	4 Pro-Iran
DEC	35/26 Pro-Iran	2K	16W
Jan 1-7	10/6 Pro-Iran/1 Iranian	5	9
Jan 8-14	7/3 Pro-Iran	3	3
Jan 15-21	10/6 Pro-Iran	6	6
Jan 22-28	11/10 Pro-Iran	-	-
Jan 29-31	3 Pro-Ira	-	-
JAN	42/28 Pro-Iran/1 Iranian	14	20
Feb 1-7	1 Pro-Iran	-	-

 

SOURCES

 

Bertrand, Natasha, Liebermann, Oren, Tawfeeq, Mohammed and Britzky, Haley, “US conducts strike in Iraq on Kataib Hezbollah commander responsible for attacks on American forces,” CNN, 2/7/24

 

Buratha News, "The Islamic Resistance attacked a target in the city of Eilat with drones," 2/5/24

 

Knights, Michael, “2) Then he joined the PMF Central Security Directorate under US-sanctioned terrorist and human rights abuser Abu Zainab al-Lami, where he ran Rusafa CSD (where he just died) and where he led murder squads against Tishreenis in 2019-2020 around Tahrir Square,” 2/7/24

 

Mahmoud, Sinan Harisi, Mohamad Ali, “Iranian commander visited Baghdad after deadly strike on US troops to urge de-escalation,” The National, 2/1/24

 

The National, “Kataib Hezbollah suspends military operations against US forces,” 1/31/24