Iraq’s Islamic Resistance Carries Out 65 Attacks On Israel In October

October saw nearly daily attacks upon Israel by Iraq’s Islamic Resistance. Not only that but there were usually multiple attacks per day. The result was a massive increase in strikes against Israel. On the other hand the Islamic State was barely active during the month.

 

There were only 4 incidents involving the Islamic State in October. One of those wasn’t even an attack. In the Muqdadiya district in eastern Diyala a car full of Hashd was fired upon killing two and wounding another. In Kirkuk an army unit was ambushed leaving 4 dead and 4 injured. An IED also left 9 civilians wounded within Kirkuk City. A security sweep also came upon some insurgents that led to gunfire and 1 Asayesh killed.

 

The group also suffered a major setback when its Wali/Governor of Iraq was killed in a joint Iraq-U.S. operation. 2 US service members were wounded as well. The Islamic State has never been able to rebuild its leadership which is a major reason why the group failed to rebuild in Iraq.

 

There were 66 attacks by the Islamic Resistance during the month.

 

At the start of October rockets were fired at Baghdad Airport. The month before there was a similar attack. This was aimed at the U.S. presence in the country. These have largely ended after a ceasefire was negotiated by the Sudani government and Iran.

 

The Resistance has focused upon Israel since then especially after Hezbollah was targeted. The result was 65 attacks upon Israel. This was by far the most operations by the resistance since the Gaza War started at the end of 2023. In September for instance there were just 30 attacks which was the previous high.

 

Baghdad is worried that these attacks will lead to some sort of Israeli retaliation. Talks with the Resistance to dial back their operations have failed. The government also sent two delegations to Tehran for help but they were rejected. Finally, the Sudani government has asked the United States for help with Israel.

 

To make things worse Axios quoted two Israeli intelligence officers who said Iran may use Iraq to launch attacks upon Israel. This has all led to growing tension and worries about what will happen next.

 

Security Incidents In Iraq By Province

Province	Oct 1-7	Oct 8-14	Oct 15-21	Oct 22-28	Oct 29-31	Totals
Baghdad	1 Pro-Iran	-	-	-	-	1 Pro-Iran
Diyala	1	-	-	-	-	1
Israel	17 Pro-Iran	17 Pro-Iran	8 Pro-Iran	17 Pro-Iran	6 Pro-Iran	65 Pro-Iran
Kirkuk	2	-	1	-		3
TOTAL	21/18 Pro-Iran	17 Pro-Iran	9/8 Pro-Iran	17 Pro-Iran	6 Pro-Iran	70/66 Pro-Iran

 

Casualties In Iraq By Province

Province	Oct 1-7	Oct 8-14	Oct 15-21	Oct 22-28	Oct 29-31	Totals
Diyala	3 (2K, 1W)	-	-	-	-	3 (2K, 1W)
Kirkuk	17 (4K, 13W)	-	1 (1K)	-	-	18 (5K, 13W)
N/A/	-	-	-	2 (2 US Soldiers W)	-	2 (2 US Soldiers W)
TOTAL	20 (6K, 14W)	-	1 (1K)	2 (2 US Soldiers W)	-	23 (7K, 14W, 2 US W)

 

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 (8 Amer)
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	-	-
Feb 8-14	-	-	-
Feb 15-21	-	-	-
Feb 22-29	1	-	-
FEB	2/1 Pro-Iran	-	-
Mar 1-7	4/2 Pro-Iran	1	4
Mar 8-14	8/1 Pro-Iran	4	8
Mar 15-21	2	-	2
Mar 22-28	2 Pro-Iran	-	-
Mar 29-31	2/1Pro-iran	1	1
MAR	18/6 Pro-Iran	6	15
Apr 1-7	3/2 Pro-Iran	-	-
Apr 8-14	1 Pro-Iran	-	-
Apr 15-21	3 Pro-Iran	-	-
Apr 22-28	1 Pro-Iran	4	-
Apr 29-30	1	2	-
APR	9/7 Pro-Iran	6	-
May 1-7	3 Pro-Iran	-	-
May 8-14	6/5 Pro-Iran	5	5
May 15-21	11/9 Pro-Iran	1	6
May 22-28	6/2 Pro-Iran	11	12
May 29-31	1 Pro-Iran	-	-
MAY	27/20 Pro-Iran	18	22
Jun 1-7	4 Pro-Iran	-	-
Jun 8-14	2 Pro-Iran	-	-
Jun 15-21	2/1 Pro-Iran	1	-
Jun 22-28	5 Pro-Iran	-	-
Jun 29-31	1 Pro-Iran	-	-
JUN	14/13 Pro-Iran	1	-
Jul 1-7	2 Pro-Iran	-	-
Jul 8-14	4	10	4
Jul 15-21	4 Pro-Iran	-	-
Jan 22-28	2 Pro-Iran	-	-
Jul 29-31	-	-	-
JUL	12/8 Pro-Iran	10	4
Aug 1-7	3/2Pro-Iran	-	10 (5 Amer)
Aug 8-14	2	2	-
Aug 15-21	2/1 Pro-Iran	-	2
Aug 22-28	2 Pro-Iran	-	-
Aug 29-31	4/1 Pro-Iran	4	8 (7 Amer)
AUG	13/6 Pro-Iran	6	20 (14 Amer)
Sep 1-7	3/1 Pro-Iran	5	4
Sep 8-14	3/1 Pro-Iran	4	5
Sep 15-21	5/2 Pro-Iran	-	7
Sep 22-28	18 Pro-Iran	-	-
Sep 29-30	8 Pro-Iran	-	-
SEP	37/30 Pro-Iran	9	16
Oct 1-7	21/18 Pro-Iran	6	14
Oct 8-14	17 Pro-Iran	-	-
Oct 15-21	9/8 Pro-Iran	1	-
Oct 22-28	17 Pro-Iran	-	2 US Soldiers
Oct 29-31	6 Pro-Iran	-	-
OCT	70/66 Pro-Iran	7	14 (2US Soldiers)

 

SOURCES

 

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Al Hurra, "Injured, including 6 children, in bomb explosion in northern Iraq,"

 

NINA, "Eight soldiers martyred and wounded south of Kirkuk," 10/2/24

- "Two fighters of the MoD's Mobilization Forces were martyred in a terrorist attack in Diyala," 10/5/24

 

Reuters, “Iraq tries to avoid regional fight as militias fire at Israel,” 11/1/24

 

Rudaw, "One Asayish killed in Kurdish-Iraq joint anti-ISIS operation in Kirkuk," 10/18/24

 

Tollast, Robert, “Iran ‘certain’ of retaliation against Israel and may use Iraqi territory to launch attack,” The National, 11/1/24

 

Xinhua, "2 paramilitary fighters killed in IS attack in eastern Iraq," 10/6/24