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Iraqi army says arrested two terrorists in Mosul city

 Iraqi army says arrested two terrorists in Mosul city

Iraqi security forces arrest a suspected member of the Islamic State group in Iraq. File photo

Iraqi security forces arrest a suspected member of the Islamic State group

Baghdad (Iraqinews.com) – Iraqi military said on Friday that its forces arrested two terrorists in western Mosul city, where the former self-styled caliphate of Islamic State was established in 2014.

“Troops of the 20th division of Iraqi military intelligence managed to capture two terrorists after besieging them in Rajm Hadid district in Western Mosul,” Iraqi news website Alghad Press quoted Iraqi intelligence as saying in a statement.

“The forces acted on precise intelligence data as they made the arrest pursuant to article 4/1 of the anti-terrorism law,” the statement read.

Iraqi authorities regularly announce the capture of Islamic State extremists in different parts in the country since the collapse of the group’s territorial influence in the country last year.

Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi announced last July liberation of the second largest Iraqi city of Mosul from Islamic State militants, who had captured it in 2014. More than 25000 militants were killed throughout the campaign, which started in October 2016.

Iraq declared the collapse of Islamic State’s territorial influence in Iraq earlier in November with the recapture of Rawa, a city on Anbar’s western borders with Syria, which was the group’s last bastion in Iraq.

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