SULAIMANI (ESTA) — Iraqi forces detained two senior Islamic State (ISIS) members in Anbar province, the military said on Tuesday.
In a statement, Iraqi security media cell said the security forces arrested one of the “important terrorist elements” who was “the special investigator of the so-called military prison for ISIS” in north of al-Qaim in Anbar.
“The terrorist has investigated and tortured a number of citizens and extracted their confessions under duress,” the Iraqi military added.
In a separate statement, Iraqi security media cell said the intelligence units also detained the “first assistant to the director of the so-called military police of Daesh” in al-Obaidi district in Qaim.
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”.
