The PMF authority announced on Sunday morning that a force from its 63rd Brigade confronted an assault by ISIS elements on a point held by its commando battalion in the Marsa Ali mountain sector of Tuz Khurmatu district, east of Salah al-Din, and that the force engaged the attackers and forced them to flee into rugged areas without achieving their objectives. Badr Organization's Al-Ghadeer TV carried the one-line version at 06:08 and Nujaba's Al-Nujaba TV the full statement at 06:22. Two Iraqi outlets reported the confrontation within the following forty minutes; the rung stays at credible rather than higher because every account traces back to the PMF's own statement and no independent line on casualties or scale exists in the collected material.
- Al-Ghadeer TVBadr Organization — official23 Aug, 09:08
“The PMF: a force from the 63rd Brigade repelled an attack launched by ISIS elements in Tuz Khurmatu district, east of Salah al-Din province.”
الحشد الشعبي: قوة من اللواء 63 تصدت لهجوم شنه عناصر تنظيم "داعش" في قضاء طوز خورماتو شرق محافظة صلاح الدين
- Al-Nujaba TVNujaba — official23 Aug, 09:22
“A force from the 63rd Brigade repelled an assault launched by elements of the ISIS terrorist organization on one of the commando battalion's points in the Marsa Ali mountain sector... it clashed with the attackers and forced them to flee and withdraw into rugged areas without achieving their objectives.”
تصدي قوة من اللواء 63 لتعرض شنّه عناصر تنظيم داعش الإرهابي على إحدى نقاط فوج المغاوير في قاطع جبال مرسى علي... اشتبكت مع المهاجمين وأجبرتهم على الفرار والتراجع إلى المناطق الوعرة دون تحقيق أهدافهم
- ستاد الأهلي23 Aug, 09:48
“The PMF repels an attack launched by ISIS in central Iraq.”
الحشد الشعبي يتصدى لهجوم شنته داعش وسط العراق
- عراق اوبزيرفر23 Aug, 09:48
“The PMF repels an ISIS attack in Tuz Khurmatu.”
الحشد الشعبي يتصدى لهجوم لـ"داعش" في طوز خورماتو
An ISIS assault on a fixed PMF commando position in eastern Salah al-Din places militia formations in a defensive contact role in a district where two separate faction media ecosystems chose to publicise the engagement rather than the loss.