Key information

Operation Brimstone (2014) XL

Housekeeping

Deploying

Sunday 20 June 2021, 17:00 UTC

Situation

Coalition forces have made considerable progress in pushing ISIS forces out of the western valleys of the region and recent operations have firmed up that effort. In a new strategy - as seen attached, senior commanders have decided to focus efforts on a large scale encirclement of ISIS forces north of Kinduf. In order to allow this to happen over the next month, a large scale, multi-operation assault on the city of Kinduf, it's military installations and outer towns will be conducted in a joint effort by Coalition and Local Forces. In preparation for this assault it has been decided that an ISIS installation known as `Green Camp Base` is to be captured and expanded into a Forward Outpost, becoming the front line position for coalition forces on the north side of the planned encirclement. Green Camp Base lies some 2.5 - 3.0kms past the currently identified front line and recent SAR operations raided this position to retrieve a captured US Ranger 2 weeks ago, the forces while entrenched and dedicated are weakened. Continue reading