Iraq Situation Report: July 11 - 13, 2015
July 13, 2015 - Sinan Adnan
The Iraqi Government officially announced the start of military operations to “recapture Anbar” in western Iraq from ISIS.
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Iraq Situation Report: July 09 - 10, 2015
July 10, 2015 - Sinan Adnan
The Iraqi Security Forces (ISF), supported by the “Popular Mobilization” and tribal fighters, are pursuing multiple complementary lines of effort in eastern Anbar Province to encircle and isolate Fallujah and cut ISIS supply lines to Ramadi.
Ukraine Crisis Update: July 9, 2015
July 9, 2015 - Hugo Spaulding
Russian-backed separatists continued to launch indirect fire and small probing attacks along the front line in eastern Ukraine against the backdrop of a restart in ceasefire negotiations in Minsk, Belarus on July 7.
Significant Offensives in Syria: June 6 - June 9, 2015
July 9, 2015 - Institute for the Study of War
Syrian rebel factions launched long-awaited offensives against the isolated provincial capitals of Dera’a and Aleppo Cities, located in southern and northern Syria respectively. The fall of either city to rebel forces including Syrian al-Qaeda affiliate Jabhat al-Nusra would overturn the stalemate that has long characterized the Syrian Civil War, opening the door to further offensives against core regime terrain in Damascus and the Syrian Coast.
Iraq Situation Report: July 07 - 08, 2015
July 8, 2015 - Sinan Adnan
ISIS continued to launch SVBIED and direct fire attacks against Haditha district in western Anbar, following a SVBIED wave that the ISF largely repelled on July 5-6.
Iraq Situation Report: July 02 - 06, 2015
July 6, 2015 - Sinan Adnan
ISIS intensified its attacks against the ISF and Iraqi Shi’a militias in northern and western Iraq.
Ukraine Crisis Update: July 2, 2015
July 2, 2015 - Hugo Spaulding
The rapid deterioration of political negotiations between the separatist “republics” and Kyiv may trigger a military escalation by the Russian-backed forces, which continue to conduct heavy indirect fire strikes against frontline Ukrainian positions.
ISIS’s Wilayat Sinai Launches Largest Offensive in Sheikh Zuweid
July 2, 2015 - Institute for the Study of War
ISIS’s most complex ground assault outside Iraq and Syria to date occurred in northern Sinai on July 1, suggesting the expansion of ISIS’s ground warfare to the Near Abroad. Previously ISIS’s attacks patterns across the region had primarily featured notable spectacular attacks.