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Iraqi intelligence arrest Islamic State terrorist in Anbar

 Iraqi intelligence arrest Islamic State terrorist in Anbar

Representational photo.

Representational photo.

Anbar (IraqiNews.com) – Iraqi military intelligence forces announced on Saturday the capture of an Islamic State terrorist during a military operation in Anbar province.

In a press release carried by Iraqi website Mawazin News, the Iraqi Military Intelligence Directorate said that its troops arrested an Islamic State terrorist in Anah district in Anbar.

The arrest of the IS militant was based on intelligence information, added the directorate.

Iraq declared the collapse of Islamic State’s territorial influence in November 2017 with the recapture of Rawa, a city on Anbar’s western borders with Syria, which was the group’s last bastion in Iraq.

IS declared a self-styled “caliphate” in a third of Iraq and neighboring Syria in 2014. A government campaign, backed by a U.S.-led international coalition and paramilitary forces, was launched in 2016 to retake IS-held regions, managing to retake all havens, most notably the city of Mosul, the group’s previously proclaimed capital.

 

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