16 October 2014

The Nineveh Governor, Atheel Al-Nujaifi, has affirmed that he has received guarantees from the central government and the National Security Adviser, Faleh Al-Fayadh, that the Nineveh operations command would not be reconstituted, and that reliance would be on the National Guard and the local police.

Nineveh Council member, Nawfal Al-Sultan, has confirmed that there are 3 candidates for the Nineveh Police commander position: Khaled Al-Hamdani, Awad Al-Sorachi, and Wathiq Al-Hamdani; their names will be on the table during the next Nineveh Council meeting. The Council has been convening and operating from outside the Province where it meets regularly once a week.

The Mosul Brigades yesterday killed an ISIL gunman using silenced weapons, while he was driving his car along the Mosul-Qayara road.

Mosul farmers have renewed their call on the Agricultural Ministry to defer the payments on their loans, due to the circumstances they are facing.

Yesterday, some Mosul districts have had their water supply partially restored following the damage caused to the high-tension cables providing electrical power to the city's pumping stations.

School administrations in Nineveh Province have changed the school weekend from Friday and Saturday to Thursday and Friday.

14 October 2014

Sources have confirmed that coalition warplanes yesterday struck targets south of Mosul; about 22 ISIL gunmen were killed.

Also yesterday, ISIL personnel abducted a number of journalists from Mosul; there has been an announcement that one of them, Muhannad Al-Ugaili, has been executed.

The Nineveh police commander, Khaled Al-Hamdani, announced yesterday that the Interior Ministry has approved the back salaries of police personnel who have reported to the training camp located near the Kurdistan Region where they will train for the liberation of Mosul. 5,000 personnel reported to the camp yesterday and it was announced that they would be paid their back salaries, as an incentive for others to report for training.

ISIL yesterday forbade students from Mosul - who wanted to take their exams in Kirkuk - to leave the city, fearing that they might join the resistance camps outside Mosul. They only allowed those who could designate a guarantor of their return following their exams in Kirkuk.

Civil services in Mosul are almost nonexistent; the streets are strewn with garbage because municipal workers have been slow in removing the piles of rubbish, a situation that has been ongoing ever since the fall of the city.