Two ISIS members arrested in Kirkuk, DGIS reports

Security

26-08-2023, 11:36

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Baghdad-INA

The Directorate-General of Intelligence and Security-DGIS announced on Saturday, the capturing of two dangerous ISIS members in Kirkuk.

“The Detachments of the Kirkuk Intelligence and Security Directorate affiliated to the aforementioned directorate were able to capture two members of the ISIS terrorist gangs, One of them was coming from a neighboring country, carrying a false ID to mislead our security forces and intended to enter Kirkuk governorate by smuggling and head towards Diyala governorate to carry out a terrorist there,” stated DGIS in a statement, received by The Iraqi News Agency-INA.

“The second belongs to the so-called Cubs of the Caliphate and pledged allegiance to terrorist gangs in 2014 and has brothers who are notorious ISIS leaders, and He was arrested in the Laylan district of Kirkuk governorate, ”, the statement added.