The Iraqi Interior Ministry’s intelligence service reported the arrest of 15 ISIS terrorists in the northern Iraqi province of Nineveh.
The Iraqi Interior Ministry’s intelligence service said in a statement that 15 ISIL terrorists had been arrested during separate operations in the northern province of Nineveh.
According to Al-Ma’loumeh news website, the statement reads: Following the pursuit of ISIL elements by the Iraqi Ministry of Interior’s Federal Intelligence and Investigation Organization to destroy the terrorists’ sources and their remnants, the Nineveh Intelligence and Counter-Terrorism Directorate forces were able to arrest 15 ISIS members in different parts of the province.
According to the report, the terrorists were prosecuted under Article 4 of the Anti-Terrorism Law under various names and titles on charges of membership in ISIL and military engineering units were active.
He explained that based on the initial investigation of these individuals, they confessed to being members of ISIL and participating in many terrorist operations against the security forces and Iraqi citizens during the operation to liberate the country.
Despite the defeat of the ISIS terrorist group in Iraq in December 2017, after several years of operations by Iraqi security and military forces, the terrorist cell and its remnants still carry out terrorist operations from time to time against military and civilian targets, and in small gangs and groups they are trying to disrupt the security of Iraq.