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Iraq Control of Terrain Map: August 25, 2016
Iraqi Kurdish Map Legend
KDP Peshmerga Control Zone
Dahuk
Rabia
Populated areas under KDP
Peshmerga control
Mosul Dam
Sinjar
Arbil
Gwer
Makhmur
Mosul
Tal Afar
Qayyarah
Qayyarah Airfield West
Sharqat
PUK Peshmerga Control Zone
Populated areas under PUK
Peshmerga control
Qandil
Iraqi Kurdistan regions under
Peshmerga control
Populated areas under PKK/YPG control
Kirkuk Suleimaniyah
Hawija
Populated areas under KDP
Peshmerga/PKK/YPG control
hir
Baiji
Bas
Populated areas under ISF control
with KDP Peshmerga and Sunni
tribal fighters
Tuz Khurmato
Tikrit
Camp Speicher
PUK Peshmerga-held location
Khanaqin
Qaim
Waleed
Hit
m
u
ad
Taq
Trebil
Balad Base
Camp Taji
Baqubah
Garma
i
ad
Ram
Rutba
Joint ISF-KDP Peshmerga-held location
Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK)
Headquarters Site
Mixed PUK Peshmerga-Militia
Controlled Location
Muqdadiyah
Baghdadi
Asad Base
KDP Peshmerga-held location
Samarra
Haditha
e
Bas
Balad Ruz
jah
Mixed KDP Peshmerga/
PKK/YPG-held location
Baghdad
lu
Fal
Jurf
al-Sakhr
Karbala
Nukhaib
al-Kut
al-Hillah
al-Diwaniyah
al-Najaf
al-Amarah
al-Samawah
al-Nasriyah
Basra
Iraq Map Legend
ISF Control Zone
ISF and heavy presence of Iraqi Shi’a militias
Joint ISF - Sunni Tribal Fighters Control Zone
Populated areas under ISF control
ISIS Control Zone
ISF-held location
ISIS-held location
ISF-held military base
100km
By Emily Anagnostos and ISW Iraq Team
©2016 by the Institute for the Study of War
The Iraqi Security Forces (ISF) and tribal fighters recaptured the Waleed Border Crossing on August 3, on the southern Syrian-Iraqi
border. ISIS resisted the loss of the Iraqi border crossing and launched attacks on August 8 and 9 against both Waleed and the Syrian
crossing at Tanf, which is held by U.S.-backed New Syrian Army. Tribal fighters repelled the attack. ISW is thus changing the status
of Waleed to an ISF-held location.
Peshmerga forces affiliated with the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) launched clearing operations southeast of Mosul on August
14 and 15, retaking at least twelve villages in the Ninewa Plains. The operation launched from the Khazar Axis, between Mosul and
Arbil, and moved south towards the Peshmerga-held town of Gwer. ISW is thus changing the status of this area from contested to a
populated area under KDP Peshmerga control.
The ISF retook the city of Qayyarah on August 25, following more than a month of operations to secure terrain south of the city and
between the city and Qayyarah airbase, which security forces recaptured on July 9. The ISF breached the city limits on August 23,
encountering limited resistance in the southern neighborhoods. The ISF secured the city center and government complex on August
24, as operations continued towards the northern side of the city. Joint Operations Command announced full control over the city on
August 25. ISW is thus changing the status of Qayyarah to an ISF-held location.