Islamic State War News Updates -- July 6, 2015

Deutsche Welle: "Islamic State" strongholds hit in major US-led air strikes

In one of the largest operations of the US-led coalition, airstrikes have targeted "Islamic State" positions in Iraq and Syria. There were a total of 38 airstrikes reported in the operation on militant-held positions.

The US-led coalition said the strikes against the group "Islamic State" (IS) had been one of its most sustained air operations carried out to date.

"The significant airstrikes tonight were executed to deny Daesh the ability to move military capabilities throughout Syria and into Iraq," according to coalition spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Gilleran, who used the Arabic acronym Daesh for the IS group.

Islamic State War News Updates -- July 6, 2015

IRAQ

Peshmerga stop 600-strong ISIS attack south of Kirkuk -- Rudaw
Baghdad says many foreigners among scores of ISIS militants killed -- Rudaw
Islamic State target Iraq's Haditha town with vehicle bombs -- Reuters
Daesh suicide bombers, fighters retake parts of Iraq's Baiji -- Al Bawaba
800 Christians join Shiite militias battling ISIS -- Rudaw
Shiites, other Iraqi forces meet heavy resistance in effort to surround Islamic State’s Falluja base -- Reuters
Islamic State: Iraqi jets drop leaflets over Mosul promising to recapture city, launch new radio station -- ABC News (Australia)
Animosity Between Sunnis and Shiites Might Doom Iraq's ISIS Fight -- NBC
ISIS is 'acting like the permanent government' in the capital of Iraq's largest province -- Business Insider

SYRIA

ISIS sends another child to his violent death: Suicide bomber, aged just FOURTEEN, kills 50 Kurdish fighters' in Syria -- Daily Mail
U.S.-led Coalition Targets Islamic State in Raqqa -- WSJ
Islamic State attacks power plant in Hasaka, in northeast Syria: army -- Reuters
Islamic State 'recaptures north Syria town from Kurds' -- BBC
Islamic State militants killed in U.S.-led air strikes, fighting with Kurds: monitor -- Reuters
U.S. says Syria strikes aimed at hampering Islamic State response to Kurdish advances -- Reuters
Ashton Carter: Increase in Syria strikes due to Kurds’ success against Islamic State -- Washington Times
U.S. drone strike kills a senior Islamic State militant in Syria -- Washington Post
Islamic State 'murders 25 men in Palmyra -- BBC
Graphic Video Purportedly Shows the Islamic State Executing Two Raqqa 'Activists' -- Motherboard

SINAI/GAZA

IS affiliate in Egypt claims rocket attack on Israel -- BBC
Islamic State’s Sinai ‘province’ claims responsibility for failed rocket attacks on Israel -- Long War Journal
Islamic State reportedly claims it fired rockets into Israel -- FOX News
Islamic State Attacks Israel From Egypt, Tries To Expand Caliphate To Sinai -- Western Journalism
New challenge in Gaza: 'Islamic State' takes on Hamas -- Deutsche Welle
Egypt faces challenging task containing ISIS presence in region -- FOX News