Iraqi forces capture ISIS members in bordering area with Syria
ERBIL, KRG, Iraq (North Press) – On Saturday, the Iraqi Nineveh governorate Police Command announced the arrest of four members of the Islamic State (ISIS) in Zummar district, near the Syrian border.
The arrest of the four members came based on “arrest warrants issued by the judiciary and through the cooperation of citizens,” according to a statement issued by the governorate police, which was posted by the Iraqi Ministry of Interior on its official Facebook.
With this arrest, the number of ISIS members who were arrested in the same area within a week, increases to 12.
According to the statement, two of the captured were working as a fighters in the so-called “General Camps”, while the other two were working as a fighters in the so-called “al-Furqan Division and Diwan al-Jund” during the period of ISIS control over the city of Mosul.
On August 26, the spokesman for the Iraqi armed forces, Yahya Rasoul, announced the arrest of an ISIS leader in Erbil, the capital of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq.
Last week, the Iraqi forces arrested 8 ISIS members in two separate operations in the Zummar district, according to the Security Media Management.