SULAIMANI (ESTA) — Iraqi forces detained two members of Islamic State (ISIS) in Kirkuk province, an intelligence agency said on Saturday.
The Iraqi Agency of Intelligence and Federal Investigation said its forces managed to arrest two “terrorists” in accordance with Article 4 of counter-terrorism law.
“During initial investigations, they confessed that they provided information about names and locations of the security services and their movements to the militant group,” the agency said.
Recently, Iraqi forces have stepped up efforts to detain ISIS militants in the provinces of Kirkuk, Saladin, Nineveh, Anbar and Baghdad. The security forces have detained and killed dozens of ISIS members in the past weeks.
Iraq declared victory over Islamic State in December 2017 but the militants have regrouped in the Hamrin mountain range which extends into the northern provinces – an area described by officials as a “triangle of death”.
